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This is a wild melanistic garter that I found with about 13 regular garters the other day on the Ohio mud flats. It was gravid and had a stub tail. I have never seen a snake deficate so much. It was really freaked out, and bit me several times, so I very gently restrained it behind the head for the pictures. It was released immediately after the photos were taken.

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DAVE

1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
0.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
1.2 fire salamanders
1.0 scarlet kingsnake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
0.1 Southern ringneck snakes
1.0 Florida scarletsnake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.0.1 Northern brown snake
0.0.1 Smooth earth snake
0.0.2 Western worm snakes
"And tons of garters and ribbons are being born in the reptile room this very minute..."

Cool find Dave. I see in your sig line that you are getting baby Garters and baby Ribbons this year. Congrats. What kind are they? Any Eastern Garters or Eastern Ribbons?
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Lyns Lair
WNY Herpetological Society

0.1 Cat (Mia)
4.2 Ferrets (Wolf, Shadow, Verdell, Sullivan, Boo, Peach)
9.5 Pet Rats (Inky, Oy, Ben, Pinky, Templeton, Cotton, Bilbo, Carlo, Isis, Wiggles, Honey Bump, Morning Star, Princess Buttercup)
1.0 Coastal/Jungle Carpet Python (Bear)
1.0 Irian Jaya Carpet Python (Ijjy)
1.0 Malagasy Blonde Hognose (Wilbur)
1.0 Yellow/Everglades Rat Snake (Pumpkin)
1.0 Russian Sand Boa (Fang)
0.1 California King Snake (Boo)
0.1 Normal Corn Snake (Mysty)
1.0 Anery Corn Snake (Suezo)
1.1 Normal Corn Snakes het Pewter and Snow (Romeo & Juliet)
1.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake (Rubeus)
1.1.3 Eastern Milk Snakes (Snoopy, Spot, Uno, Dos, Tres)
1.0 Ball Python (Slytherin)
1.0 Smooth Green Snake (Fred)
1.0 Banded Water Snake (Bubbles)
0.0.1 Eastern Garter Snake (Slithers)
0.1 Golden Greek Tortoise (Sunshine)
0.2 Mississippi Mud Turtles (Squirt & Shyanne)
1.0.1 Bearded Dragons (Moose & Tipsy)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Dragon (Tiramisu)
1.0 Ornate Uromastyx (Scribbles)
0.0.1 American Toad (Bump)
0.0.1 Fowlers Toad (Rudy)
0.0.3 Cane Toads (Trevor, Mud Pie, & Rocky Road)
0.0.3 Bullfrogs (no names yet)
1.0 AFT Gecko (Cocoa)
5.4 Leopard Geckos (Trouble, Scooter, Simba, Firenze, Teddy, Mystique, Freckles, Zipper, Twister)
0.0.4 Leopard Gecko Babies (no names yet)

Hi Lyn,

In answer to your question, I have not updated my signature in quite awhile. The babies were actually perhaps the first known intergrades between the Eastern ribbon snake, and the Florida blue garter snake. The mother was the garter, and she had been eating more ravenously than any other snake I had ever kept. I did not consider the fact that she may have been a mother, because she was so large, and at Markheim's where I bought her, the tank was labeled "all male." Therefore, I was not waiting for anything, and by the time I went in to do some work on the vivarium, I found maybe 8 baby snakes within the amniotic sacs, dried up under the heat lamp.
I also have some good news- that rare smooth earth snake that I have is still gravid, and due any day! My red-cheek eggs are also hatching. I will try to get out to Reinstein sometime soon. Happy herping.
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DAVE

1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
0.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
1.2 fire salamanders
1.0 scarlet kingsnake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
0.1 Southern ringneck snakes
1.0 Florida scarletsnake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.0.1 Northern brown snake
0.0.1 Smooth earth snake
0.0.2 Western worm snakes
"And tons of garters and ribbons are being born in the reptile room this very minute..."