Have some CANDY!

Eye candy, that is!!!!

I bet I'm the only person in the world who carries an iPhone plastered in my own photos of garter snakes

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080826.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080828.jpg

somebody, namely a certain nebraska albino plains, got caught in the cookie... er, worm jar
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080747.jpg

female erythristic het albino
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080750.jpg

my holdback pair of rubrilineatus devouring unscented pinkies... i never even offered them scented ones... whodathunkit?!

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080819.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080820.jpg

Newborn puget with a pinky
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080823.jpg

Florida Erythristic chomping down on pinkies... I used to have to coax this snake to eat worms... forget pinkies!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080831.jpg

She's sure getting chubby!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080829.jpg

Adult red stripe pretending to be a branch
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080838.jpg

This here is a handful of pinkies... with water snakes attached to them.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080840.jpg

The vanishing pattern female just had her first shed and blew me away with color!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080853.jpg

holdback male cherry
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080857.jpg

Upon seeing the first shed I have realized that I got both some of the male's type hypo, and the cherry hypo, but the cherry has this effect of making even the snakes that are not cherry hypo's have red in them. The top is a daddy's type hypo (high red, I guess being related to cherries does that because even the normals have red!), the bottom is a mama's type cherry hypo. I belive I did get some with both traits in the same snake but they all have to shed first So I can see hat the heck is going on here!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080870.jpg

Holdback normal female... simply a knockout.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080882.jpg

Yes, she's really THAT red.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080885.jpg

Here's that weird patternless one again
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080889.jpg

she even has a stripe!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080900.jpg

male "hypo" checkered.... what are they calling this morph these days? Do we still call them hypos? It's more like a pastel.... hmmmmm.... whatever they are, definitely a genetic morph.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080918.jpg

Him with the one I suspected to be some kind of hypo and as it grows, it glows! They are both SO intensly bright that they mess with my camera big time... impossible to photgraph!!

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080934.jpg

and to think, the one on the bottom was only $14.....
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080938.jpg

High black concinnus female, lookin HOT!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080952.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080963.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080966.jpg

Female eastern blackneck.... they sure aren't little babies anymore that's for sure!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080984.jpg

female eastern blackneck and female western blackneck!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080998.jpg

they only have one thing in common... they have black necks....
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1080999.jpg

female orange flame eastern, she's starting to bloom wonderfully!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090011.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090019.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090023.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090026.jpg

Axanthic plains.... camera washed all the blue out... this snake is bluer than any puget in person!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090030.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090040.jpg

My male similis is now breeder size but he will NEVER outgrow the baby face!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090044.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090052.jpg

it started to get dark so sorry, but only one shot of my infernalis, Mesa... with the flash...
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/P1090083.jpg

Great pics! Thanks for sharing :)

Your photo posts always leave me in awe. Amazing animals you have and such diversity! W:OW.

Bruce

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Originally Posted by Bruce Whitehead

Your photo posts always leave me in awe. Amazing animals you have and such diversity! W:OW.

Bruce

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x2... You always get such great pics... I wish my snakes would hold still long enough to do that! Your collection really shows the diversity and beauty of colubrids the best. Some of those even make my Hondos look dull and that's saying something :P :gj::gj:

Great pictures....Thanks for sharing :)

Girl, those are some absolutely stellar photos! However, I must say I like the phone case you made best! :giggle: Great creativity. And the animals are great too. I just picked up a teeny tiny little western peninsula baby ribbon snake at a show.He was sooo cute, I couldn't pass him up. How do ya sex them??!!! "He" seems so tiny and fragile!!

sexing baby thamnophis is very easy once you learn how to do it. They are far too small to probe, so I utilize popping. What I do is, when I have a clutch born, I take them all out, pop them and sort them. I count up the babies for a male/female ratio, and then I mix them all back up. A day or so later, I pop them again to make sure I got the same ratio. So far I've had 100% success with that! I actually prefer popping nerodia to thamnophis though. Their little hemipenes are so obvious you can tell males from females just by looking!

awesome pics

Dang! Impressive collection... I'm jealous... :P