Checkered Breeding

[Greg'sGarters]

I just recently got a baby checkered garter snake for one of my clients. I am holding on to it until they are ready. I have fell in love with this little guy and was thinking about breeding them. How do you breed checkereds? Is it the same thing as sirtalis? Fast, brumate, breed? Or is it different?

[guidofatherof5]

I don't think breeding for T.marcianus is any different then most garters.
Not sure what you mean by fast brumation.

[twgrosmick]

Not as cold of a brumation or as long otherwise they are the same

[Greg'sGarters]

I don't think breeding for T.marcianus is any different then most garters.
Not sure what you mean by fast brumation.


I'm not saying fast brumation, I'm saying that I fast them, as in I don't feed them before I brumate them.

[guidofatherof5]

I misunderstood your statement. I apologize.

[Invisible Snake]

You must fast any snake regardless of species before you put them in brumation or cooling, Checkereds are found in certain southern states so their brumation temps don't need to go as low as northern species.

[Greg'sGarters]

Ok, I want to start breeding them, i just need to find a breeding pair and more importantly, space for a breeding pair! If you are or know anyone who is selling Breeding Size Albino/Normal Checkered Garters please let me know. I only want Albino or Normal though.

[Ctah_Lu]

What would be the max size of the T. Marcianus? one of my friends says that the males reach 1.3 meters long, Is this correct?

[Invisible Snake]

What would be the max size of the T. Marcianus? one of my friends says that the males reach 1.3 meters long, Is this correct?

That's really big for a male! I've heard of some females getting to be 1 meter, but never any males.

[thamneil]

My two females are both approaching 3 feet. Keep in mind, one is two and the other is three years old. They breed young and easily. I have produced three litters without ever brumating.

[Selkielass]

My 2 1/2 year old male albino checkered is several inches longer than his 30inch cage. (33-34a maybe)
Still less than a meter and he is the biggest male I have ever seen. I have seen females his size and o have heard of larger.

[chris-uk]

What would be the max size of the T. Marcianus? one of my friends says that the males reach 1.3 meters long, Is this correct?

My marcianus aren't fully grown yet, and both are female. But 1.3m would be very large for a male from everything I've read. One of Pinjohn's snakes was a large male marcianus, he had kept marcianus for years and considered him large but I don't think it's more than 1m. Gregmonsta has that male now, so I'd be interested to see how long Greg thinks the male is.

[@ndy]

My Friend Graeme has a 10 year old female her name is Edna and she is just under 1m here is a Pic of her with a litter of her young, This is my Big Female's mother 7920

[CrazyHedgehog]

wow, she looks gigantic in that pic!!
nice and healthy though :)

[@ndy]

wow, she looks gigantic in that pic!!
nice and healthy though :)

Well she is the biggest Thamnophis marcianus that I have ever seen here in South Africa

[Greg'sGarters]

Wow

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Marcianus breed like rabbits.... you really can't mess it up. That is why they are literally everywhere at the shows, and they are the only freakin' garter at most shows... specifically the albinos. It was really hard for me to find NORMAL marcianus that were not tainted by the albino lines. As far as looks go... I am still a full believer that a lime green checkered is the most beautiful snake there is!

[Greg'sGarters]

Now I want to breed marcianus! I go by the phrase "the more the merrier" (this statement does not apply to mites).

[@ndy]

I am Lucky that I have a pure Normal Female from Edna that I posted previously she is a normal and have never been tainted with Albino or Het albino blood, here in South Africa the Albino checkered's are scarce, I struggled for 2 years to get my hands on an albino.

This is the 1st year in SA that we have het Albino's available from another female and an imported Albino male.

I am one of very few people in South Africa that have an Albino, there was 6 albinos this year and 4 of the 6 was held back, mine is a female and the other 1 was sold to a friend of mine.

Another nice photo of Edna

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[Spankenstyne]

My largest male is approaching 3 feet and my largest Albino female is somewhere between 3.5 to just under 4 feet. Checkereds can get pretty big by Thamnophis standards. At shows I get a lot of "wait..that is a GARTER snake? I thought it was a Corn..."

As stated already, they breed pretty easily. Usually without anything more than just putting them together and letting nature take it's course.