Have some CANDY!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Eye candy, that is!!!!

I bet I'm the only person in the world who carries an iPhone plastered in my own photos of garter snakes

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080826.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080828.jpg

somebody, namely a certain nebraska albino plains, got caught in the cookie... er, worm jar
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080747.jpg

female erythristic het albino
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080750.jpg

my holdback pair of rubrilineatus devouring unscented pinkies... i never even offered them scented ones... whodathunkit?!

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080819.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080820.jpg

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Newborn puget with a pinky
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080823.jpg

Florida Erythristic chomping down on pinkies... I used to have to coax this snake to eat worms... forget pinkies!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080831.jpg

She's sure getting chubby!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080829.jpg

Adult red stripe pretending to be a branch
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080838.jpg

This here is a handful of pinkies... with water snakes attached to them.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080840.jpg

The vanishing pattern female just had her first shed and blew me away with color!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080853.jpg

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

holdback male cherry
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080857.jpg

Upon seeing the first shed I have realized that I got both some of the male's type hypo, and the cherry hypo, but the cherry has this effect of making even the snakes that are not cherry hypo's have red in them. The top is a daddy's type hypo (high red, I guess being related to cherries does that because even the normals have red!), the bottom is a mama's type cherry hypo. I belive I did get some with both traits in the same snake but they all have to shed first So I can see hat the heck is going on here!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080870.jpg

Holdback normal female... simply a knockout.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080882.jpg

Yes, she's really THAT red.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080885.jpg

Here's that weird patternless one again
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080889.jpg

she even has a stripe!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080900.jpg

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

male "hypo" checkered.... what are they calling this morph these days? Do we still call them hypos? It's more like a pastel.... hmmmmm.... whatever they are, definitely a genetic morph.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080918.jpg

Him with the one I suspected to be some kind of hypo and as it grows, it glows! They are both SO intensly bright that they mess with my camera big time... impossible to photgraph!!

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080934.jpg

and to think, the one on the bottom was only $14.....
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080938.jpg

High black concinnus female, lookin HOT!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080952.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080963.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080966.jpg

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Female eastern blackneck.... they sure aren't little babies anymore that's for sure!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080984.jpg

female eastern blackneck and female western blackneck!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080998.jpg

they only have one thing in common... they have black necks....
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1080999.jpg

female orange flame eastern, she's starting to bloom wonderfully!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090011.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090019.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090023.jpg

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090026.jpg

Axanthic plains.... camera washed all the blue out... this snake is bluer than any puget in person!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090030.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090040.jpg

My male similis is now breeder size but he will NEVER outgrow the baby face!!!
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090044.jpg

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090052.jpg

it started to get dark so sorry, but only one shot of my infernalis, Mesa... with the flash...
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/aSnakeLovinBabe/Snakes/Garters/P1090083.jpg

[ssssnakeluvr]

awesome photos!!!!! love the red spot with minimal red...sweet snake...and the red easterns...hell, love them all!!!!!!

[adamanteus]

I bet I'm the only person in the world who carries an iPhone plastered in my own photos of garter snakes



http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//537/medium/phone_002.jpg

No, Shannon, you're not the only one with a garter-decorated 'phone!;)

[Stefan-A]

The only way my phone could get garter-decorated, was if one of them happened to crawl into my pocket and take a dump on it.

But my Visa Electron is garter decorated.

[Snaky]

Some very nice pictures, Shannon :)

[drache]

oh Shannon
I am overwhelmed
and a little jealous - only a little though

[charles parenteau]

ITs huge! VERy nice pictures!!

[gregmonsta]

Excellent shots as always :D

[Stefan-A]

I concur and the snakes are beautiful, too. Especially those rubrilineatus.

[Zephyr]

Only one word to describe those pics.
EPIC.

[Snake lover 3-25]

wonderful pics!!!!

[ianrambell]

Love the water snakes very cool.

[GarterGeek]

Those water snakes were neat. What kind of set-up do you have for them? How aquatic are they really?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

They like the water but they really don't spend too much time in it! I keep them just like my garters. They THRIVE!!! Check out my youtube video of feeding them all!!!

[Steve 88]

I love how diverse these snakes are! beautiful pictures.

[GartersRock]

Awesome as always!! :D

[GarterGeek]

They like the water but they really don't spend too much time in it! I keep them just like my garters. They THRIVE!!! Check out my youtube video of feeding them all!!!

Wow, thanks...I hope you aren't annoyed that I have a few more questions.

Are they docile? Wild water snakes are, at least from my experiences, nasty.

Can they live entirely on pinkies or do they need more variety?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

They are incredibly docile. Wild water snakes are nasty at first but will often tame down very quickly. Cb babies are usually calm right off the bat and mine are so used to beig picked up you should see my BF laugh at how nonchalant they are!!! I know some people feed just rodents and they do fine, I personally prefer to mix it up!!!