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Lee, I really like the black speckling on your erythristic, reminds me of the pattern on my granite checkered. Here's a pic of my female erythristic het albino that I took tonight, she's the one that produced the erythristic albino male I posted below. She keeps getting prettier with more orange every shed. Are you planning to cross your ery to your bluegrass albino, I think that would be a great breeding project,(or have you already crossed and produced hets this past spring?) Sure would like to work out a trade with you this spring for some blugrass albinos.

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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Nice snake jeff!Is your snake really heavily keeled compared to the rest of your snakes?My female eryth het albino feels totally different than any other garter I have had.

that's the southern eastern in them! All of mine from further south feel like that. Like, overly rough like a file!

hmmm, wonder if that is an enviromental evolved adaptation to a different rougher, more sand,rock soil type?
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Yeah Tom, they really are much more keeled, or at least more pointed keeled, they do feel really rough in the hands, kinda cool. Thanks for reminding me of that interesting trait, I remember really taking note of them even when they were younger and I had all but forgotten, untill you reminded me. Great observation Tom, Thanks. Give me a ring if you get a chance, want to talk to you about the flame albino I got from you.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com