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Garter & Ribbon records!!!!

celticvamp Jun 07, 2009 08:50 AM

OK. I been thinking about it and curious about everyones personal record breakers. I don't mean any world records cuz you can google them and most are exaggerated anyhow. So what is your own personal records.

Whats the longest female/male you've had? Whats the largest clutch you've had? Whats the smallest female you've had give live birth? Whats the oldest you've had one live? Whats the most you've ever collected in one herping adventure? Whats the largest percentage of homozygous morphs you've produced from a pair of hets or a het X homo pairing? Feel free to come up with your own ideas for records. Maybe you had 6 females giving birth at the same time and are yourself curious if anyone else can match that stake your claim to that record.....

When thinking of your answer take specific species of your snake in consideration it won't be fair to feel you can't brag about your 3 foot ringneck cuz someone was just talking about their 12 foot retic. (I only used the ringneck and retic for an example cuz I don't know much difference in garter & ribbon species differences).

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ssssnakeluver Jun 07, 2009 12:03 PM

well....my longest garter is a 43" melanistic eastern....so far, the largest litter I have had (years ago) was 37 for a florida blue eastern.

celticvamp Jun 07, 2009 08:00 PM

Wow. I've never seen a garter even close to that long. Only records I think I could be in the running for would be most collected in one day when I was a kid. I'm sure on a good day I've collected at least 300. I have seen on TV breeding balls could easily collect that many if you found one but I've never seen one. Everything I have found was individual or maybe a couple together. But of the Thousands I've seen, never seen one close to as long as you had.

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