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Here are some updated photos of some of my select thamnophis and nerodia!!!

Gravid red striped ribbon.. she looks so small in this pic but she's at least 3 feet in length!

Bluebie!

cute hypo-ish checkered

Erythristic "florida blue" eastern... that's right... a snake that's normally blue... in red! Hot right?? haha This snake was sent to me for being a very picky eater. I am proud to announce that she is now robustly accepting all forms of food, including f/t rodents, off the tongs! She has gained so much confidence in coming over to me and eating it's amazing!

Her with my male regular florida blue!

the male

09 Parietalis babies are growing FAST

And finally some terrible pictures of my 5 holdbacks from the clutch of Cherry Hypo banded water snakes!

male 1

male 2

Female 1 (aberrant)

Female 2

Female 3

Nice pics Shannon, I especially like the hypo red water snake babies
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Shannon,

Great pics, glad the Florida erythristic turned around for you.

Scott

Nice snakes, SLB. That checkered is uncanny-maybe it IS a hypo after all! And love the blue as well.....
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

Very nice photos as usual Shannon.
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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
Thamnophis US
Dances With Reptiles

1.1.0 Thamnophis Infernalis- California Red Sided Garter Snakes
1.1.0 "flame" erythristic Eastern Garter Snakes
1.2.0 Melanistic Thamnophis Sirtalis Sirtalis
?.?.1 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis Albino
2.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Iowa Snow
1.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Snow Het
0.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Snow/Nebraska Albino double Het
0.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Christmas Albino
0.1.0 Thamnophis cyrtopsis Easter Black Neck Garter "MoJo"
0.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis Eastern Snow "Snowflake"
1.1.0. Thamnophis elegans vagrans Wandering Garter
2.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garters
0.0.1 Thamnophis HybridAlbino Checkered Normal eastern"Mutt"
2.0.0 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garters (xtreme orange phase)
0.0.1 Thamnophis butleriButler's Garter Snake
0.0.4 Thamnophis proximus orariusCoastal Ribbons
0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis - Eastern Garter baby
0.0.3 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis HET Anerythristic
1.0.0 Thamnophis pickeringi - Puget Sound Garter "Sky" (adult, Sky blue)
0.0.1 Nerodia sipedon - Water Snake - "Aqua" adult WC Pink eater!
0.0.1 Amelanistic Corn Snake "CY" Sub-adult CB
1.0.0. Pueblan Milk snake "Oreo" adult CB
1.0.0. ASIAN GREEN SNAKE 3' WC Cyclophiops major"Limon"
0.0.1. Savannah Monitor "CHOMPER" Getting Huge!
0.1.0. Green Anole "Crystal"
0.1.0 Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) - "Peach" (A Monitor with fins)
1.0.0 Ball Python - Python regius "Cain" Rescued from a crack house
0.1.9 Eastern MilkSnake WC "Carmella" adult super sweet temperment (Eggs all hatched!)
1.5.0 Storeria dekayi - Brown Snakes Casper, Xena, Athena, Copper, Sharon & others
1.0.0. K9 "ACE" Black Cockapoo
1.1.0. calico RATS
??.??.?? Mice - Feeder farm - Crickets / fish / Giant roaches
More herps than I could ever list out back on the land.

You take some really nice pictures! Do you mind me asking what kind of camera you use? Also, how large is that female erythristic Florida girl? Is there anything that would distinguish her from a regular erythristic eastern?

Thanks I am shooting with a panasonic lumix dmc fz18. Just stock for now.

The florida easterns have a certain "look" to them that other easterns just don't have. They even have a different shape... A really big clunky but narrow head, giant bulging eyes that almost don't fit on their head (especially as babies the eyes are overwhelming) and a very distinct, sharply contrasted perfectly squared checkered pattern usually with a nice distinct dorsal stripe. They also have a distinct looking "collar" behind their jawbones that sets them apart from most other easterns. These are just observations I've picked up along the way... after a while... it just becomes second nature to be able to distinguish the FL blues from other easterns, even if the FL blue is... well, not blue! I have a blue male, a blue female, the red female, and a brown female as well and they all just have "that look". I don't have a measurement in size on her but she is just a tad smaller than My blue girl, Bluela. And I think once she gains more weight, she will fill that gap rather quickly!