The complete shed

[GarterGuy]

Figured I'd just restart the thread, since it's been a while. Here is Petra, my 1yr old male T.s.conccinus (Oregon Redsided) going through his shed cycle.

Blue eyed phase

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Petra_shed.jpg

Eyes have now cleared up....this is two days after the previous photo

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Petra_eyesclear.jpg

the next day he began to shed in the morning, you can just see the skin is off the top of his head here

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/shed_begins.jpg

..and here's the shed (he finished while I was eating breakfast....took only less than 20min.)..you can just see one of the eye caps in the head section

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/shed.jpg

[GarterGuy]

..and here's the finished product....all shiny and new!:D

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Petra_postshed.jpg

[abcat1993]

Nice, I love how black it is.

[Snaky]

A very nice one

[Cazador]

Little Petra is an aweful pretty young concinnus.

[GarterGuy]

Yeh, I'm hoping that as he gets older, more and more of the red will come through.

[boeh]

Nice pictuers! I also find that he's really awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[El Nino]

Beautiful!

[ssssnakeluvr]

Nice looking snake!! I love the red spots...here's a pic of my male....
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/m_red_spot_1.jpg

[GarterGuy]

Nice looking snake!! I love the red spots...here's a pic of my male....
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/m_red_spot_1.jpg

Very nice looking snake, I hope as Petra gets older, he'll develope more red in his head, but I hope he doesn't loose the light colour of the lower labials. I really like how it looks on him.:)

[abcat1993]

Is that picture inside or out? It looks like somebody's lawn, but you'd have to have a pretty tame garter (or a slow one) to just leave it there while you take a pic.

[ssssnakeluvr]

That was taken in my front yard...with the help of my daughter...she would cover the snake with her hands until he calmed down, then I took a bunch of shots, saved the best. My camera focuses better on the smaller ones in the grass rather than on my cabinet in the critter room.

[Elliot]

Those are some great looking snakes!

[Gijs & Sabine]

Great idea to take pics of your beautifull concinnus trew his shed. Very nice to watch:)