Melanogaster babies photos

[DEKAN]

Here they are...tomorrow will be thefeeding day, they're a little bit skinny :o

Two of the babies (with orange stripes) are turning red, why??...the middle stripe appears that it's gonna be orange too :p the other two with orange stripes are totally black, aswell the last two with yellow stripes

Enjoy them
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Orange and Yellow
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[DEKAN]

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[Stefan-A]

Very nice ones. :) They look nothing like the more common Thamnophis species.

[DEKAN]

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[adamanteus]

Beautiful babies, Robert. Stefan is right, T. melanogaster looks more like a typical Nerodia than a typical Thamnophis.

[Lori P]

Wow! Chocolate colored snakes! Oh dear, I better not EVER get any... LOL

[CrazyHedgehog]

Wow! Chocolate colored snakes! Oh dear, I better not EVER get any... LOL
now that made me laugh!!

lovely looking snakes!

[Sid]

Those are great looking babies, Robert. If you keep posting photos of those you have have me tempted to move to Mexico after I retire:D.

[anji1971]

Wow! Chocolate colored snakes! Oh dear, I better not EVER get any... LOL

Lori, you took the words right out of my mouth!! I was looking at them thinking, "Oh, they look like little chocolate bars!" Great minds think alike, I guess!:rolleyes:

[DEKAN]

:D Glad you liked them

thanx for your comments

[zooplan]

nice pictures
thanks for sharing:D
too busy to write more:(

[Snaky]

I love them, truly nice one's! If I'm very lucky, who know one day I'll get some :)
Thanks for posting the pictures ;)

[Odie]

Wow! Chocolate colored snakes! Oh dear, I better not EVER get any... LOL
I am climbing on this bandwagon :D

[drache]

they are beautiful
I love that orange colour

[Gijs & Sabine]

They are very nice :) I agree with Sid, but then again we live a bit too far away :D But Mexico has some very unique garterspecies :rolleyes:

[adamanteus]

Hey Robert, how are your babies progressing? Are they all eating okay? Can I have some?:D

[GarterGuy]

Glad to see the little ones are doing well. Know you had some feeding issues with them. They're gorgeous little snakes.

[Thamnophis]

Hey Robert,

I heard from Steven Bol, a breeder in the Netherlands who has done some fieldstudies in Mexico that the juveniles of T. melanogaster canescens all differ in color when they are born.
This has to do with the fact that predators cannot get used to a particular color as prey. Maybe this is also so for T. m. melanogaster.

Maybe I want to loan a few of the pics from you for on my site again... :confused:
Okay? :cool: