First time babies / "Florida blue garters"

[Travistodd91]

Hey guys this is my first time posting here but I have been lurking for a while now. I am from south Florida and spend a lot of time herping and have always loved garter snakes since that was my first pet snake as a child. Long story short when I came across a massive blue garter that was visibly gravid almost two months ago I couldn't resist taking her in until she dropped her babies. Two days ago i woke up to find 44 adorable little worms in there with two still borns :). So far I have them set up in 4 groups of 11 and about 2/3 of them have already taken night crawlers cut into pieces dusted with a little reptiles calcium, I have them on Paper towel for substrate so I can make sure they don't become impacted and watch there poop for irregularities. Is there anything I'm forgetting or doing wrong ? Any replies or feedback will be appreciated ! Also I'd like to post pics but don't know how

[Tommytradix]

sounds pretty good. congrats!

[guidofatherof5]

Welcome. What are your plans for the neonates?
Garter Snake Forum - Garter Caresheet (http://www.thamnophis.com/index.php?page=caresheet)

[Albert Clark]

Welcome to the forum.

[indigoman]

Welcome to the forum!

[Eddie]

Congrats on the litter!!!

[Travistodd91]

I will probably sell most of them and keep a pair or two to raise up for my self I at first I was going to release them but the general consensus from the biologists I have talked to is that can release non native pathogens into the wild from some of my other animals so that's out

[Travistodd91]

Thank you for the welcomes also I wasn't sure if my first post went through so I typed another one to the same effect and I'm not sure if that will be posted or not so if it does I apologize I'm not very forum savvy

[Zdravko092368]

Congrats and welcome to the forum. What are your plans for them? Any photos of the babies and mom?

[Tommytradix]

Are they Similis or Sirtalis??

[Dan72]

Congrats! Someone explain posting pics, I wanna see em!

[Travistodd91]

I'm not sure they are what we call blue garters they are from belle glade cane fields and go from a stunning blue to a greenish color. Can sirtalis be blue like that ?

[Travistodd91]

I am going to sell most of them and keep a pair or two for me. When posting here sometimes my post says awaiting moderator approval and sometimes it goes right up so if I post something similar twice I apologize

[Travistodd91]

They are sirtalis sirtalis just a bluish variation I guess from what I read similus doesn't come south of Hernando county.

[Travistodd91]

Similis*

[Tommytradix]

a pic would help with identification but sounds like a blue eastern.

[Travistodd91]

It didn't let me post it I tried but it's a blue eastern I looked it up

[Tommytradix]

It didn't let me post it I tried but it's a blue eastern I looked it up
email a pic to me. my email is in my signature

[Travistodd91]

Hey I emailed you the pictures would you mind posting them ?

[Tommytradix]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13426&stc=1http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13427&stc=1http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13428&stc=1

[Tommytradix]

do you have pics of the mom? they are definitely easterns

[Eddie]

Nice looking babies. I'm partial to Florida blues!! :)

[Tommytradix]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13464&stc=1http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13465&stc=1

here are pics of the mom that were emailed to me

[Eddie]

Very nice!!