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07/11/2024

Baby blue phase valleys (t.s. fitchi) born Saturday. Looking forward to raising a small group of these and was pleased to see they were born already showing attractive shades of blue.

This is actually the 8th litter of garters born here this year so far but I've been too busy to post.

06/19/2023

Had a pretty big litter of tiny T.s. fitchi born yesterday from an average sized female. 33 live no stills, one of my biggest litters of garters to date. Due to their small size I imagine I'll be raising them up a little longer than usual.

12/11/2022

These alpine short tailed garter snakes (t. Scaliger) I got from Ashley Dezan recently are some little pigs, and I got a little extra lucky with one of them seeming to be axanthic.

09/03/2022

This will probably end up being my only holdback pearl from my recent litter... can't afford to keep them all! Lol

08/31/2022

A few of the babies born here over the last couple months, Oregon red spotted, Pearls, Aztecs, and puget sound

04/17/2022

Happy easter

The puget sound garter snake (T.S. Pickeringii) has long been one of my favorite subspecies to keep and breed. This isn't even one of my top 3 best colored specimens. This ones a late 2019 slower grower, Expecting a small litter from her around mid June. (No requests for babies from specific parents will be entertained until babies are established)

Previously thought to be hard to keep due to heresay spread by breeders from "back in the day" they really aren't.

03/31/2022

A few recent photos. Has been a slow hard winter, apologies for the lack of activity. But I'm still around.

T. Eques Cuitzeonsis
Diadophis punctatus amabilis
And t. Eques obscurus

09/27/2021

Infernalis! These are a staple of the hobby for a reason. It's hard to compete with the amounts of red and blue that this subspecies expresses. Sure there are more red, and there are more blue garters, but there aren't many with this much of both!

08/21/2021

Momma lake chapala doing good, she might actually look better when in shed!

08/21/2021

My massive female checkered garter snake, she produced a good litter for me this year, hoping to breed her to my recently aquired albino granite next year

06/13/2021

Baby lake chapalas born today from pairing 100% het albino male to a nicely colored female normal. 17 live, no stills no slugs!

05/27/2021

2nd 2021 litter of T.S. Concinnus on the ground and born today while I was at work, this litter averages a bit nicer than the first, and the high blues from the bunch are already apperant! This is the litter I've been waiting for.

05/22/2021

This poor baby hairless mouse was too scared to move. Petrified with fear. I'm pretty sure it's afraid of heights, so the photoshoot was very short

05/21/2021

Some baby Oregon red spotted garters born today!

05/08/2021

Any day now concinnus babies should be here!

The lake chapala is almost 60 days along,

These 2 are thick! It's an exciting wait

05/08/2021

Baby checkereds are ready to go, just over 3 weeks old and feeding on chopped f/t pinky mice, all have had 7-10 meals.

Pictured are a few typical specimens the morning after a feeding.

Now sexed
Only males or pairs, no solo females
Dob 4-15-21

Pm to discuss, thanks.

04/16/2021

This was sooner than I could've hoped! And the babies are huge and healthy! She's still giving birth as I type but I plucked 2 out for a quick post! Should have a head count by morning! Looks like a bunch so far.

Included last are a couple pics of her babies from last year. (not produced by me but I did aquire them simultaneously to her) I see some minor color differences in the 2 babies I already took out so I'm already thinking one is gonna be a "light" normal and one will be a typical normal

04/13/2021

40-60 days along for the checkered. Didn't record her time with the male as I never saw the slightest bit of interest, fingers crossed. Should be any day now. Side note I no longer think my smaller checkered female is gravid, just very stocky. She would've delivered by now if she were gravid when I first thought. Maybe next year.

32 days along for the lake chapala and the skin on her rear half has gotten so taught it would almost be cause for worry. Haven't produced in this species yet but if the experience of others is something to go by I can expect to wait at least another 60 days before she delivers. If not longer.

Plenty of breeding going on but these 2 are my best show-ers.

Have a small bit of concern over a female blue concinnus that came out of brumation already gravid. Really hoping the contents of her womb weren't damaged or stunted by her being cooled while pregnant, and if they were I just hope delivery goes smoothly and mom makes it.

03/24/2021

Hoping for a solid litter from this pair! Copulation was verified 3/11, not by witnessing a lock though, there was a big gooey s***m plug bulging from the females cloaca when I got off work that day. Since then her appetite has gone through the roof, and she's increased in girth noticeably. As well as has a much better disposition. Was very flighty prior to copulation. Still very active and a bit hard to photo because of how much she moves but it's not so much her trying to get away as trying to explore now. This attitude change is the exact opposite of what I've come to expect from gravid females sans the appetite increase.

03/17/2021

I sure do love oregon red spotteds! I probably talk/post about them the most of my projects, but they vary so much!

03/09/2021

New guy came in this morning!
T. Eques Cuitzeonsis
Even darker and nicer than I hoped, hopefully I can find him a girl this year.

01/30/2021

This girl is the most likely candidate to deliver my first litter of 2021, normal checkered female. Normal x normal pairing.

01/26/2021

My favorite pair of Oregon red spotted garters, hoping for more than 6 babies from the female this year

01/25/2021

A few of my breeder female corn snakes. List of pairings coming soon

01/25/2021

Welcome! I finally made the page I've been going on about for a year. Website next! It's still a work in progress but soon this will be a place anyone can check in to see what's FS at the time, or to see what my groups of adults or holdbacks and babies from past seasons look like. Thanks

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