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just curious, what is the biggest eastern garter snake any of u have seen before? any over 3.5 feet? anyone know the record as well?

thanks

Well my personal largest i ever saw was a gravid female that we measured at 43.6 inches. Found it In Dracut Mass

I think the record is in the 50's
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Cameron

I grew up in Mass and now live in N.H. and I'd have to say that I've seen and caught Easterns that were consistently 3 1/2 to 4 feet and very thick like a big Florida Kingsnake. Those were in a suburb of Boston and in Dracut Mass while fishing at a place called Beaver Brook. They snakes were coming out and feeding on the dead shiners that I took of my hook and threw on the bank.

Scott Felzer has an Florida blue eastern around 42 inches...

I found one a couple years back that was about 39".
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
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This girl is the biggest garter I have ever had, she was approximately 42" /- .

Scott

How big is that girl around? Looks like a adults wrist size.
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Cameron

She was a big girl, was roughly around 5- 6" in girth. She could eat small rats and produced 58 babies one yeaer. Kick myself for selling her.

Scott

I hope mine gets that big!!!! She's around 32 inches or so....a little too nippy to try to get a good measurement.

interessting looking snake, but...

to get a correct masurement is always difficult so I´m more interessted in her weight.
My biggest female is about 1 pound.

best wishes
udo

Scott,
Do you have a site?
I've been a fan of your work for years. I keep Yellow Tail Cribos and also like the beautiful Garters that you've been producing and would like to keep them also. You have so many color variations that I'd like to know what exactly is or will be available as far as colors.
That big blue was a beauty. You should have kept that one!