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hi All,
I thought I would share this garter with you all. it is a scale-less eastern that a memeber of redtailboas.com found in his driveway! he says it is a female, and he is going to try and breed her next season to a snow male

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i would name it scrodom.very cool garter.i would breed it to a normal eastern first.is the snow a eastern or a plains?

I'm not sure if its an eastern or plains snow, he just mentioned he would be trying to breed her with a snow.

if its a eastern i would only breed it to a eastern,at first anyway.a eastern to a plains would make het mutts. most people look down on mutts.if he wants to make more like it i would say breed it to what it is.

I would definitely breed her to a male eastern. Keep that line pure, that is a very important animal to be muddling with genetics.

I say don't breed it. Enjoy it's beauty for what it is and leave it at that. It's the snake version of the pug and we all know how messed up the dog breed world is.

Ian

is the result of muddled genes. We have been reproducing genes which in the wild mean certain death for our own viewing pleasure. I don't se anything different with this one.

I have only seen pics of like 6 merolepid snakes. That garter snake is very awesome. If it's an eastern, it should be bred to an eastern. No reason to hybridize.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
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Seems reasonable to breed it back to the same subspecies, and one from the same locality in an attempt to learn something about the local genetics. There is an interest in the genetics and then there is the interest in the money: breeding it to anything imaginable in the hopes of producing marketable freaks.

Are you sure thats a Garter?......mike

It's a garter no doubt. Look at it.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
Helmz777@aol.com
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake
Updated 9/19 NEW PICS/INFO