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Well, I know that Don does, since he was kind enough to provide me with a breeding pair for the spring season, but does anyone else? Don't get me wrong--I love black-necks, checkereds, and a lot of the aberrant morphs...it just seems like the wandering could stake a claim to getting the least amount of respect from the community at large. They've got voracious appetites, a varied diet, and, well, heck, I grew up chasing 'em in the Salt Lake Valley.

Am I indeed alone?
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"Arnold Elvis"

1.0 Abbott Okeetee corn snake - "Shane"
0.1 Banded Miami corn snake - "Miami"
1.0 Hypomelanistic red-tailed boa constrictor - "Escobar"
2.1 Wandering garter snakes - "McFly," "Lorraine," "Hunter"
1.0 Kankakee bull snake - Choosing to remain nameless at present

have you looked at the thamnophis.com forum? there's a handful on there that love them!! one of the moderators breeds them also

I do!! I think they are stunning in all of their variable colors.

You are definitely not alone, I personally consider them the most fascinating of the genus. They might not be the most colourful, their beauty is a lot more subtle.
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2.2 Thamnophis elegans vagrans
0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia
1.1 Natrix maura

I have one I got from Don, He's a great snake!
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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
Thamnophis US
Dances With Reptiles

2.1.0 Thamnophis Infernalis- California Red Sided Garter Snakes
1.1.0 Flame X Erythristic Eastern Garter Snakes
2.0.0 Melanistic Thamnophis Sirtalis Sirtalis
1.0.0 Kansas Albino Red Sided Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
0.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis Golden / Albino cross
0.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis Anerythristic morph
0.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - axanthic morph
2.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Iowa Snow
1.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Snow Het
0.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Snow/Nebraska Albino double Het
0.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Christmas Albino
0.1.0 Thamnophis cyrtopsis Easter Black Neck Garter "MoJo"
0.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis Eastern Snow "Snowflake"
0.1.0 Thamnophis similis "true blue" This gal bites!
1.1.0. Thamnophis elegans vagrans Wandering Garter
2.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garters
0.0.1 Thamnophis HybridAlbino Checkered Normal eastern"Mutt"
2.0.0 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garters (xtreme orange phase)
0.0.0 Thamnophis butleriButler's Garter Snake (died)
0.0.1 Thamnophis proximus orariusCoastal Ribbon Snake
0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis - Eastern Garter baby
1.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis HET Anerythristic
1.0.0 Thamnophis pickeringi - Puget Sound Garter "Sky" (adult, Sky blue)
1.0.0 Florida Black racer - fiesty yet way cool.
1.0.1 Nerodia sipedon - Water Snakes Pink eaters!
0.0.1 Amelanistic Corn Snake "CY" adult CB (pet store sale)
1.0.1. Pueblan Milk snakes "Oreo" adult & a '09 baby CB
1.0.0. ASIAN GREEN SNAKE 3' WC Cyclophiops major"Limon"
0.0.1. Savannah Monitor "CHOMPER" Getting Huge!
0.1.0. Green Anole "Crystal"
0.1.0 Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) - "Peach" (A Monitor with fins)
1.0.0 Ball Python - Python regius "Cain" Rescued from a crack house
0.1.9 Eastern MilkSnake WC "Carmella" adult super sweet temperment
1.5.0 Storeria dekayi - Brown Snakes Casper, Xena, Athena, Copper, Sharon & others
1.1.0. K9 "ACE" Black Cockapoo, Diamond b/w cockapoo

>>I have one I got from Don, He's a great snake!

Don is a great guy, too. I grew up in his neck of the woods and he was kind enough to send me a breeding pair since I'm now out here in the land of the Eastern garter in eastern Illinois.

I will confess, however, that there is little I find appealing about the Nerodia sipedon that I see when herping (often as many as two dozen a day).
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"Arnold Elvis"

1.0 Abbott Okeetee corn snake - "Shane"
0.1 Banded Miami corn snake - "Miami"
1.0 Hypomelanistic red-tailed boa constrictor - "Escobar"
2.1 Wandering garter snakes - "McFly," "Lorraine," "Hunter"
1.0 Kankakee bull snake - Choosing to remain nameless at present

My T. elegans vagrans, named Ellie, is a very sweet snake.

I wish that I knew Ellie's gender, so that I can find him / her a mate.

My other snake is a Great Basin Gopher. Both were caught locally.

Snakey Lakey

I'm going to hazzard a guess that you live in the SLC valley (or thereabouts). I could never get a WC Great Basin gopher to eat in captivity and thus never kept anything but a single CB male. Incidentally, the gophers were the only snakes to ever scare me as a kid; there was nothing like being eye-to-eye with a five-footer hissing and assuming the S-shape.

I love the genus, though, and just acquired a Kankakee bull.

>>My T. elegans vagrans, named Ellie, is a very sweet snake.
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>>I wish that I knew Ellie's gender, so that I can find him / her a mate.
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>>My other snake is a Great Basin Gopher. Both were caught locally.
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>>Snakey Lakey

I'm a bit further north and west, in the Oregon High Desert.

True, the Great Basin Gopher "Go-Go" is a very finicky eater (s/he usually only eats in the spring and early summer), but I have managed to keep him / her since May of 2002. Go-Go was about 3.5 feet long when caught, and now is about 4 feet. I caught Ellie, my Wandering Garter, about three-fourths of a year before Go-Go.

Snakey Lakey

I've had a few gt basin gophers eat just fine.