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I used to keep checkered garters as my first snakes years ago. They were a really nice breed, easy to handle, never musked or striked, and ate mice really easily. Unfortunately the last one I had escaped while I was out, and my dad caught it and put it in my eastern kingsnake's cage. Had a fat kingsnake when I came home! That was 10 years ago.

I'd like to see how large some garters can get. Thanks

here's a couple pics I took last winter.... the black one is my melanistic eastern, 43" long, and the florida blue is 38" long. I took them like this to make them loook real big after some bozos posted pics of huge rattlers that were not so huge, just held out on a hook so they looked bigger....

I recognize those homer Simpson pants from a precious posting "somewhere".....
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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
Thamnophis US
Dances With Reptiles

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yea.....they are popular!

Nice snakes man!
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- Matt

or is that mouse blood?
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Jake Barney

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yeah i was kinda wondering the same thing! Kind of a weird looking wet blotch in that photo!
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- Matt

no, it's not bleeding....was water on the snake....pulled her out of brumation for the photo, had been in the water dish

I reckon the "Florida style" Eastern is over three feet.

Tim

Third Eye

I like its fat head. Looks like it could pound some toads!
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- Matt

Here is a female eastern that I found and released this past summer. She was HUGE. GIGANTIC. ENORMOUS. I didn't have anything to measure her with so I photographed her with a typical sized adult female eastern that you would find there and then with a fully grow red bellied snake. The tree stump in the first picture was just under 3' in diameter.

here's the other pic

She must of been near 4'! Nice pics too!
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- Matt