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this litter is from breeding the Carteret Co. Erythristic het for albino to the male Carteret Co. Erythristic het for albino. This was her second litter, but last year she only had the one live baby erythristic albino and the rest were stillborn. This year she had some jelly beans and a few deformed but 9 perfectly healthy live babies, the big surprise though was that there was a melanistic in the bunch, which means that both parents are also het for melanistic, which was not previously known, this also means that there could have been a erythristic snow produced, unfortunately didn't hit the odds in this litter maybe next year. There is also one albino in the litter and one normal that already show quite a bit of color.
This is the group photo

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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

a better pic of the melanistic, kind of reminds me of a black leopard- you still see the spots underneath all the black.

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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

pic of the albino, the most colorful potientially "erythristic" should get redder with age, and the melanistic.

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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Congrats Jeff! Thats a cool little melanistic!

Dan Eby

Thanks Dan, have you been out field herping yet?
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

that's a sweet little surprise.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles
www.kingpinreptiles.com

Yeah gotta like it when that happens, anxious to see what it looks like when older, most melanistic easterns are jet black with no pattern, some people even think it might be a new line of anery since this is only second generation out of wild, we shall have to see though, shrug.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com