How great care can transform a snake!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Last year I bought an adult female florida blue eastern garter snake. Not the greatest looking specimen, she wasn't blue at all, but she was gravid, healthy, alert, and priced right so I figured, why not? She has blossomed into a very nice looking snake, actually! With a year of proper care and lots of food, she has come from that brown, petite (just had babies in that photo) bland looking snake to a chubby checkered beauty with a lovely blueish green hue to her entire body. I find it rather attractive and she is one my favorite garters in my entire collection!

For comparison, here she was when i first got her: not blue at all!!! Not even on the face!


Here she is now after a year of good food and tender loving care!! She truely has undergone a dramatic color change... she was not blue at all before! This snake made me a believer that a good varied diet and lots of food will bring out the best in a snake!

[BrucenBruce]

Looks like she appreciates great care! She's a beautiful blue babe.

I've been working with a blood python in a similar fix - s/he's gone from count-the-ribs thin to a hefty, healthy snake who'll eat anything warm-blooded and fuzzy, even if it isn't particularly warm any more, that goes into his cage. The transformation has been nearly as amazing as the one above!

BTW - how'd those babies come out?

~Bruce

[rabernet]

Wow - she's beautiful!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

she had 20 babies an hour after I had brought her home. They all came out great and were great feeders and I traded many of them to other garter keepers! I still get to see pics of a few of them growing up! It's very rewarding. No babies this year, they did not breed but I did not push them to. I figured I would give her a rest!

[littleindiangirl]

Holy cow, she sure did turn blue!! You make me wanna go herping for garter snakes!

[TheOtherLeadingBrand]

Good job! She is really a true beauty!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

DISCLAIMER: not all garter snakes will turn blue after a year of feeding, only ones that are predisposed to blue coloration!!!

that would be pretty sweet if I could make all my snakes magically turn blue though!!!

[PiebaldFan]

wow she is gorgeous, not like the garters i use to catch avery day outside near the train tracks

great job on the parenting and congrats

paul

[icygirl]

WOW... that blue color is stunning. Makes me want to get into garters!

[JLC]

She's gorgeous! We don't see nearly enough of the garters around here! Thanks for sharing, and don't be shy about sharing more!