Cool melanistic

[snakeman]

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[drache]

yup - very cool
reminds me of some of the photos I've seen of melanogasters
made me wonder whether someone lost one around there

[gregmonsta]

Love that division of colour :) nice.

[ssssnakeluvr]

I saw that earlier....wish I could get that one...or a few!!!!

[reptileparadise]

thats a really nice looking animal!

[Snake lover 3-25]

omg that's awesome!

[charles parenteau]

Wow so nice !never see something like that absolutely amazing.
...by the way is caught this one in 1999 only 2 whites scales on the chin.
unable to reproduce .died in 2000 from illness.As far as I know she's the only melanistic garter ever caught in Quebec.
I took her out from the freezer to take pictures few years ago and she still in my freezer.!!!
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s152/parenteau/melanistic99016.jpg
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s152/parenteau/melanistiquedrummond1.jpg

[guidofatherof5]

That's too bad about the loss.
She was beautiful.

[Stefan-A]

Nice. :)

I too have a dead snake in my freezer, but it's only been there since December. I'm not quite sure what to do with it.

[charles parenteau]

Im suppose to send my dead garter to a well known biologist Jean-Francois Desroches for some analysis ...
I was unable to breed her with a male from a well known melanistic garter snake population from Ontario Canada.

At that time I wanted to know if she was the same type of melanistic.
What the babies will look like ...regular ,many melanistic with het,double het.I will never know.

I compare with other melanistic of my friend and she looked very much darker* than the other one.(*?).
before shedding all the strippes and the belly become bleu like her eyes .I dont know if all melanistic becomes stripped bleu before shedding??

[drache]

that snake must have looked amazing in life