That is definately a unique looking snake. Hard to really tell from the photos but it almost looks scaleless and/or piebald and/or a form of motley/striped, which would be a really rare and remarkable matation, far removed from the wild type? Would be nice to hear some history on this snake, like was in found that way, where was it found, or did you produce it in captivity, was is born that way,ect. because from the photo alone, it's hard to even identify that snake as a red-sided garter snake (not saying it's not), because it is so far removed visually from wild type, again it's just hard to even identify that snake as a red-sided in the photo, and maybe it's just due to photo, maybe in person it is clearly identifiably a red-sided, or maybe you saw it born from a red-sided, ect, so it would be nice to hear more about this very, very interesting snake indeed.
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Jeff Benfer
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