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Born here in the summertime and photographed today.

Third Eye Herp

Beautiful!

Tim those are really putting on color if those are the same as you posted down awhile back. When they were born they didn't have any orange on the side just a yellow dorsal. I had a breeder pair orange coast garters a couple years ago, that produced some decent looking babies and they also where born without much color but put it on fast. The parents didn't have as much orange on the lower sides like flames as yours but where more orange spotted. Below is pic of the breeder pair I had. They where also very docile. Are yours docile as well?

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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Jeff,

I caught my adults in April and haven't handled them much, because I wanted to get them "settled in." When it became apparent that the female was gravid, there was even more incentive to leave them be.

The babies are the same ones that I posted in the Summer. When they are born they do not have any red, but develop it over time. It only seems to take 2 or three sheds. It seems that there is an orange morph like the kind I posted, as well as a "high red" morph.

I'd call yours "high red." Here's one I found back in April.

Tim

Third Eye Herp

wow those are impressive animals Tim. Awesome as usual. Merry Christmas. Mike Panichi

Very pretty