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Hi folks,
Just wanted to say hello. Been thinking about getting back into keeping snakes and have wanted a garter for quite some time so I figured I try to get one or two.

We have two bearded dragons right now. If I do get some garters, they will be housed close to (not with) the dragons. I'm really concerned about mites. Because of the mites, I'm leaning towards buying some CB garters.

If I was to catch some wild ones, is there an effective way to get rid of mites for good? Or is it a lingering problem? I wouldn't want them to spred to my dragons.

I found Scot Felzer's site. He has some really cool looking snakes on there. On the upper left side of his site there is a GIF slide show of 5 pictures. There are 2 red side/ w/ stripe,
2 that look to be albinos and a 5th snake. Greyish stripe w/ black checkers. Can anyone tell me what type this 5th one is? It is really nice looking. You probably already know the site addy, but incase you don't.... www.gartersnakemorphs.com I sent him an email, but haven't gotten a response yet.

Looking foward to learning much more about garters.
Thanks for any help/suggestions
Rob

Buy the cb from scott. He has nothing but great healthy cb garters. You definately won't have to worry about mites when you get snakes from scott....mike bodner

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Good luck with your thayeri breedings this year. You've got an awesome collection, very colorful locales.

I don't have mites in the collection. All newly acquired snakes are quarantined to insure that, in the event that they do have mites, they aren't passed on into the main collection.

Scott

I have never seen a wild snake with mites. Ticks yes mites no. Mites come from other peoples collections not from wild caught snakes. We get 100's of snakes a year of all species and never see mites unless the were in some ones collection.