Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Yesterday our adult het female produced 27 babies total, 8 albinos, 9 hets and 10 still borns (1 albino and 9 hets).

congrats they are bueties

Aww.. they're adorable!

Baby albino red sideds start out very orange in color, as their pics show. As they mature and put on some size they gain varying degrees of red coloration. This male pictured looks orangish in color but actually has a decent amount of red in him (This is the sire to the babies btw).

Scott

SWEET!!!!!!!

They are awesome! Now you can start working on snows.
Good luck
Ed

.

Scott, how common are still-borns? It seems that every clutch I've seen or heard about has had one or more still-borns.
-----
...and I think to myself, "What a wonderful world."

Still-borns happen, sometimes complete clutches are stillborn (happend twice to me) but most often only a few are in a viable clutch. So far this year w/ 3 clutches the first had 10, second (eastern-very small clutch-3 babies)and third (plains-12 1 born the next day that passed away) had none.

Scott

PS Pic is representative of one of the three easterns born, a snow eastern

I had a hypomelanistic shorthead garter snake give birth to 4 live and I think 3 still born last year.
-----
Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
www.captivebredforum.com

Hey Mike,

How are the babies and mom doing? Did you hang onto the babies?

Scott

Scott...

That actually happened when my collection started to have it's downfall. I went from 75 snakes to about 20 that year. Struggled massively with crypto, mites, and lord knows what else.

Unfortunately the babies became snake food. The mom died like a month after giving birth.

If I knew you had an interest in them I would've sent them to you, it would have been somewhat of a risk though lol....

There are still hypos in that area though. I caught another one from there that should still be around. The hypos definitely look nothing like the erythristic one I found back around 2001.

-----
Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
www.captivebredforum.com

Beautiful babies Scott. I know those are going to grow into some stunning animals.

Steve

The females should color up nicely as they mature. The female albino I had in the past was extremely red and she was born orangish colored, similiar to the current brood's colors. It's interesting how a red sided would be mostly orangish at birth w/ no hint of red and then at maturity be predominately red.

Scott