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Well, My garter snake collection is really blossoming. Sadly, I must report the unexpected deaths of my female Similis and my treasured Iowa Snow Plains a month or two ago. I have brought my adults out of brumation after the basement began to flood. They got 2 months. I have observed courtships already but no copulation amongst the garters YET. For today, I have a ton of pictures to share and also a video tour of my snakeroom at the bottom. If you have seen any of the pictures before... sorry! I am just going to go crazy with them.

A red radix I grabbed last show for $20

'08 FL blue sirtalis

Eastern Blackneck

Nebraska Albino Plains

Hypermelanistic Wandering

Parietalis het anery

High Black Oregon Red-Spot

My Male Flame's belly is on fire!!!

Here he is playing "hide the pinky"

His woman looks kind of jealous...

Look mom! No hands!

Here's the female flame that I caught, in shed... she's shy!

Eastern Blackneck demolishing a pinky

A male courting my WC hypo eastern

Her basking

My fantastically yellow marcianus

My Xmas present from boyfriend: Carteret County Erythristics het Schuett Albino produced by Scott.Let us hope they color up well!

And While I am here I figured I may as well throw this one in for Scott: He sent me that super red female banded water snake and she has locked up with the male that I purchased from his earlier in the year. I am ECSTATIC!!! I

Okay, I guess it has a limit on how long your post can be... LOL!!! So here is the pic of the water snakes...

and lastly, part 1 of the video tour is in here, the next part is in the next post.

Enjoy, or not! It's your decision, -Shannon - The Serpentine Queen!

and here is part 2!

Fun video, very nice stuff! Your red watersnakeis awesome, but your hypo eastern is still the coolest IMO
Thanks for taking the time for the vid!

Dan Eby

Very nicely done video Shannon, thanks for sharing! The custom cabinet cages that your dad and his friend built are super sweet!!!
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Jeff Benfer
1.0 cinnamon pastel Python regius
1.1 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.3 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.3 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
2.0 66% het snow Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 butter p.h. stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 carmel stripe p.h. amel Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 amelanistic p.h. carmel,stripe Pantherophis guttatus

Shannon,

They all look good, the flame is coloring up real nicely and the red plains is sharp. Will you be breeding the red plains this year? If so, to what?

Scott

Scott,

I think she is jsut a tiny bit too small to breed this year, and her previous owner must have not fed her very well... because she's a bit thin. I'll hold off until next year (she has not even passed quarantine period yet) and by that time I hope to have a red albino from you to breed her to and produce some nice reds het albino!!! She has some red pots on her belly just like the one you've got, but shes not nearly as light red... she's very dark overall, but I am hoping with the right mate I can bring out the reds even better!