However this morning, he/she was roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the diameter of last night with no little ones in the tank. As best I can tell, the little thing was simply inflating itself to appear more intimidating. Goodness knows it was bitey enough that most sensible creatures would have left it alone. It's only about 16 inches in length. I don't know enough about garters to estimate an age accurately, but I was assuming it wasn't over 2-3 years of age since I'd read that little ones were around 6 inches or so at birth (not sure of the accuracy of that either, really). Any ideas on what the age could be? Also, how would I determine gender? I've probed boas and know the scale depth for both genders but that's the limit of my probing experience.



Raven

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• WC Garter....Pic - Raven01, Wed May 21 08:57:14 2003
• RE: WC Garter....Pic - greg woodie, Wed May 21 11:46:14 2003
• RE: WC Garter....Pic - Raven01, Wed May 21 12:35:12 2003
• RE: WC Garter....Pic - greg woodie, Wed May 21 12:53:26 2003
• Very Cool! (more) - Raven01, Wed May 21 13:04:51 2003
• RE: WC Garter....Pic - greg woodie, Wed May 21 11:48:14 2003
• Here's a 2nd pic of him.... - Raven01, Wed May 21 12:58:50 2003
• Whoops! Repeated same pic - try this one.... - Raven01, Wed May 21 13:01:35 2003
• Nice snake! He might be a she thats gravid..n/p - hbluedevilh, Wed May 21 13:41:57 2003
• I had considered that myself...(more) - Raven01, Wed May 21 14:54:30 2003
• RE: I had considered that myself...(more) - hbluedevilh, Wed May 21 15:03:14 2003
• Feeding.... - Raven01, Thu May 22 10:21:21 2003