New Garter Snake Enclosure

In this video here at Cloud Colubrids we are setting up a new garter snake enclosure for the pair of Puget sound garters we unboxed from Steven Bol.
I will show you my garter snake collection and how to care for baby garter snakes aswell how to setup a bioactive garter snake enclosure.
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Thank you so much

[@martintc9954]

Great Setup! Last summer i have bought a second hand terrarium with a Crusted Gecko. I have made my own setup with bioactive soil. It works great. Next week i can buy a second hand terrarium with a Garter Snake. I also put in bioactive soil and some plants. Thanks for your instruction video. Enjoy your weekend and Coffee!😃☕. Greetings from The Netherlands

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

All the way from the Netherlands , nice to see my videos are making it that far 🙂 Bioactive is really nice and it's fun working with the plants and creating your own little eco systems. Thanks for watching and I'm glad your enjoying your Reptiles

[@andyhsong]

cloud colubrids has become my favorite snake channel!!!!

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

That means so much Andrew I'll make a toast to this post in my next video

[@andyhsong]

@@cloudcolubrids4603 thank you! i hit the bell for notifications so i wont miss it 😊 cheers to you too!

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

@@andyhsong awesome

[@cinemacomix1535]

Great video love the fern and carpeting plant. I might incorporate that in a future garter enclosure

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Your welcome. I love naturalistic set ups

[@mr.tiddles556]

Great information and a very chill energy through the video. I enjoyed it a lot, keep up the good work

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

I really appreciate your comments. Thank you and enjoy your weekend

[@alanwisse192]

Nice of you to recognize the English teacher.. I go with peww jet sound but I'm not from Washington either. Hope your snakes love their new home.

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

the English teacher 🤣🤣🤣

[@sixteezchild]

pyugit sound! It was hard for this Texan to learn as well!

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Yeah that was a strange word for me too

[@robertsimpson9828]

Awesome set up Love it Snakes will love it Bob from Wisconsin

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

appreciate that Bob. I'll do a video when I introduce them to the tank.

[@vett0111]

You have amazing skills at making bio-active tanks. Can’t wait to see the snakes in it. Keep up the great work. 👍🏽

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

aw thanks. it's fun for me

[@wonderfulcolubrids]

I love how your bioactive set ups came out. Simple things and it looks really natural and awesome. Keep the extra footage at the end of your videos coming as well.

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Thanks, there always fun to do. the extra footage 👌👌👌

[@Lu-Sun777]

Really cool snakes,they looks like ..You know..Like they glow in the dark!In my country i didnt see such a colorful snakes. But we have cool natrix natrix )))

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

that's awesome I like those alot. the colorful snake normally come from hot climates. are things getting better in Russia? or still very bad

[@Lu-Sun777]

@@cloudcolubrids4603 meh..Bad. Now de-facto we cant sent/buy dollars and euro,my husband have all money in dollars ,so now they like "poof" and we cant do something with this money.I think,he will try to move in other country,becouse he is programmist and in russia he didnt have work now... I sold some my birds and buy another het scaleless female for my male scaleless butter ,he has 2 females now,wanna try to produse some tessera scaleless🥰 I cant move to another country,so now i just breed some birds,mouses and snakes.Try to did right and kind things and not to think ALL time about war😔 Thanks for asking :) Hope Youhave anice day! Also,we have "black viper snake" here,in Moscow and natrix natrix, this vipers sometimes looks a litttleblue,dark blue,or violet!So i think they really buatiful.Not colorful,but thats okay.They have venom,so some people sometimes kill them..They so calm,if snake see you,it try to escape really fast...So if i found dead viper,thats make me really sad.

[@anthonyamurri9278]

Added note oh, you said that Puget Sound garter snakes don't like high humidity and they are a warm climate snake. I am native to the Puget Sound. It rains all the time. Our entire summer is crammed into the month of July where you will get temperatures in the mid-to-high 90s. The rest of the year it's a good day if you hit 65 degrees. For instance today it is 67 degrees and I just caught one of these snakes

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

I appreciate the information on the native climate of these snakes. There's a big difference between the wild and a small tank. In the wild, when it rains a lot, they definitely would come out a lot and do fine, but they have little hide aways they can go to that are dry if they choose. In a smaller enclosure its not recommended to keep the humidity high unless they have a huge space with dry areas. Constant high humidity with wetness can cause scale rot. Like Brazilian rainbow Boas, I keep them very moist and humid they love it, but for the garters, it's not recommended. If I had a huge enclosure with burrows and areas, they could stay dry if needed, and then it would definitely work

[@SwissStrawberry]

very nice video! Have you tried LED for the light? Will also grow plants very well and you have a lower electricity bill 😊

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Thanks yes I use leds on my tree frog tanks and the plants grow nice. I just had this fixture that was ment to grow indoor plants for hydroponics so I used it

[@SwissStrawberry]

@@cloudcolubrids4603 Tree frogs are wildely underrated. I wish more people would recognise this

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

@SwissStrawberry yeah there so nice to keep. I love the calls they make at nite and you can really go all out with the plants because they love to hangout amoung the bushy leaves ect

[@marcosavila1204]

Sorry I'm late awesome Video Joshua and excellent job on the bioactive enclosure your Snakes are going to love it

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

thank you, I'll make a.video when they go in. I always appreciate your support

[@marcosavila1204]

@@cloudcolubrids4603 you are very welcome Joshua and always bro love your channel have a great day I might take my Corn Snake Medusa outside so she gets real humidity so it helps her shed

[@christiangonzalez1510]

NIce!

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

🐍👌

[@hodgepodgefoodadventures8140]

Awesome video love the build

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Glad you enjoyed 🐍🐍🐍

[@johnnyrussell1849]

Very nice setup how was your day today

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

It was good I'm feeding my new garter snakes fish for the first time let's see how it goes

[@johnnyrussell1849]

@@cloudcolubrids4603 oh yeah really nice garter snakes grew up catching snakes

[@NielD-g1y]

beautifully set up. the only thing is one of those plants is going to die because two of them are desert succulents and the other two are high humidity dependent plants :/

[@anthonyamurri9278]

When in doubt just remember that Seattle is in the middle of the Puget Sound

[@kerseykrewzoo]

I had a feeling you were a “plant person” and the thing about the grow light being for “all kinds of plants😉” confirmed it. I’m a plant lover myself, though I can’t grow them to save my soul lol. I have definite black thumbs. I can’t get dandelions to grow and they grow in gravel and horrible soil! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Great video bro. Can’t wait to see the snakes and plants thriving together. ☺️

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

sometimes plants are like that. om glad you enjoyed the video. yeah I loved plants from a kid.. I would walk rhe nurseries just looking st plants as a kid...always found it fascinating thanks for the compliment and I'll do an update video

[@anthonyamurri9278]

Your close. It's Puget Sound. Basically everything that you just pronounced it as that rolls off the tongue with a large u sound. Also I just caught one of these today LOL I'm a trucker and it was going through a warehouse lot and I saved it from getting ran over

[@nobelapache3877]

Hey sir does that man you got the snakes from have a website or a link I can possibly get a hold of them to buy some? I have a pair of wild garter snakes I caught here in Texas normal colors, Awesome video thank you for the info sir

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Thanks and yes just type in Google Steven Bol and his website comes up. The downside is he lives in Netherlands so shipping is expensive but the cost for the snakes are cheaper than here in USA. He is one of the best Garter snake Breeders. There are a few here in the states but most of the time they have people on waiting list and won't have any available until the following year

[@CarinaAnnis]

What size and type of enclosure would you recommend for two 6-7" garters? It will be bioactive.

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Thats pretty small I'd go small like a 10-20 gallon. 10 gallon is fine if there very small so you can find them and when feeding time comes it will be easier. What I did was kept my pair in bins until they hit a more suitable size and then put them in the larger enclosure

[@dissolutionii2286]

Are you still breeding these Pugets? Very interested in acquiring a pair.

[@Kylegames1014]

What web site did ya get then snakes off od

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

A breeder in Netherlands His name is Steven bol

[@seabasstian_5.119]

👍🏼🤙🏼

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

🐍🐍👍

[@broskinie7168]

I need some help! I am trying to make a nice paludarium where the main animal is 2 garter snakes, I would maybe want a 50-70 gallon tank because that's what people usually recommend. I was going to make it its own ecosystem with a lot of things like worms (the ones they can eat), snails + slugs, isopods, springtails, and probably for the water area freshwater snails and platyfish. I kind of want the snakes to live off of the stuff in the tank, so I would obviously let everything grow before introducing them. I saw a few tanks and some had lots of leaf litter, rocks, hides, everything, and I thought that that could keep the moisture from the substrate off of them? Also, a worry I have is captive-bred garters not actually hunting like a normal snake, I have no idea if their natural instincts will be gone or something but really anything helps! :)

[@broskinie7168]

I was also worried that the fish and other animals would be really stressed being in the same place as the snakes, but I was planning on getting a wide tank with lots of hiding spaces but I don't know if that'll do. I did see in this video the water dish being small but I'm assuming that the type of garter you got doesn't like swimming because everything I see has that they enjoy swimming. I think the leaves, bark, etc will be enough for them not to have their skin touching things that are moist all the time. I am planning on getting a mist king system, but it could be too expensive. Any help would be really appreciated! :)

[@eoKingNoodle]

Beautiful build! I might have just broken my promise to myself about sticking with cal-kings only as I just sent an inquiry about a beautiful Meansi..

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Thanks 🐍 we'll there's always room for one species other than kings lol.

[@eoKingNoodle]

@@cloudcolubrids4603 Yeah I upgraded the eldest cal-king to a much bigger enclosure and then with that surplus terrarium just standing there.. :D

[@timbryan9701]

Beautiful snakes, I wish I could make a bioactive setup. I tried and the plant that was impossible to kill? Well, it died. I'm thinking I have a black thumb. ;)

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

A black thumb 🤣🤣. I'm sure if you tried again you will have better luck. Once in a while a plant just dies

[@MRBKKTOMMY]

Hey bro love your videos. I've been binge watching your channel all day. What happens if the room gets to hot, like over 100°F? And how do you sex your baby snakes? Is it hard to tell and do you have to wait until they get a certain age? Will you ever have a hatching video?

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Hey I'm humbled by your comment. Thank you ☕️. My snake room stays at 78-80. In the event we lose power even on the hottest days the house never exceeds 85 so I won't have that issue unless I move to Arizona or Las Vegas and lose power which would be horrible. In that event I'd just put all the snakes in plastic show box's that I have on hand and take them to another air conditioned place. I think 100 plus may harm them and wouldn't take a chance. It's not that hard to sex babies you can use the popping method or probe them. I prefer to probe since it's easier and more accurate. Popping can be tricky. Yes I will be doing videos on all stages of breeding and as they hatch and all that good stuff I will have videos. Be safe and have a good weekend

[@colin2436]

are you close to brevard county? if so I need a mentor, if your interested! I moved here from Nevada about 2 years ago and am looking to get back into snake. I had to sell my collection before moving but am finally in a place where I can start back up again! would be really cool to hear from you.

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Brevard County? Where's that? Well that's great your getting back into it. What kind of snakes did you have in Nevada

[@colin2436]

@@cloudcolubrids4603 I had 13 ball pythons, was about ready to start my hand at breeding when the move happened. Brevard is east of Orlando. Cocoa/ merit island area. I'm very interested in starting back up/and breeding colubrid's specifically hognose snakes. I want to build my own racks so I don't blow my snake budget but just wanna start reaching out for helping hands.

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

that's great. The cost of pvc went up alot over the past year but that's my material of choice in building racks then I order my bins from freedom breeder. Hogs are cool..

[@availz2580]

Zero knowledge on Garter snake tbh

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

We learn as we go along

[@angelicmatthews4385]

0most of the pnw retained their native american names, its not " a bit odd

[@giovanni545]

Revelation 14:12 (King James Version) 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

[@jadenmalone4456]

U don’t need coffe u need new teeth

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

Hey Jaden thanks for the comment. I'm living my best life enjoying it and I'm fine with my teeth but if you wanna hook me up help me get those teeth buy some merch and a few snakes I'll put it towards that . Be safe and I appreciate you watching

[@mr.tiddles556]

@@cloudcolubrids4603 that was an absolutely beautiful recovery

[@trashykid12]

From who did u buy the snake again? Sorry.. i just wanna know because im in the netherlands and i cant find any reptile stores or any online reptile shop So it would really help me out if u couod tell me =)

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

The breeder is Steven Bol he's one of the best.

[@trashykid12]

Oh and can u buy some garter snakes from him?

[@cloudcolubrids4603]

@@trashykid12 yes