Blue, Orange, Purple and Green!!!

[Jeff B]

Took a couple shots tonight of my favorite four males in a five gallon bucket. Aside from their interesting alert personality the garters have a lot of different intense color morphs. Hopefully these boys will get r done this spring for me, I have big hopes for them, not exactly sure which girls they will see, but they will definately see some action. I will probably spend the entire month of January pondering the possibilities of the different pairings, it will probably drive me half crazy, yeah the other half.
FYI they are:
1)green axanthic morph Chicago garter (Thamnophis sirtalis semifasciatus )
2)blue axanthic morph plains garter (Thamnophis radix) unfortunately in shed so he isn't showing his best.
3)red/orange erythristic flame morph eastern garter (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis)
4)purple silver morph eastern garter (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis)
Thanks for looking
http://gartersnakemorph.com/images/favfourmales3.jpg
http://gartersnakemorph.com/images/favfourmales2.jpg

[Snakers]

Very nice variety!

[guidofatherof5]

Looks like you've got your own variety pack.
Very nice.

[MasSalvaje]

WOW!!!

-Thomas

[mb90078]

1, 2, and 4 could all be easily in the top 10 nicest looking snakes I've seen posted on these boards. 3 ain't too shabby either. If I decide to expand my collection at a later point in time, those are definitely the types of snakes I'd be interested in. Hope you get some huge litters out of the breeding so that I can afford them ;)

[Dragonbeards]

Its a rainbow of snakes :D. I like them all, but really love #4.

[Spankenstyne]

Fantastic variety of some unbelievable snakes there... Love them all but #1 really catches my eye.

[ConcinusMan]

Now I have a headache. And a wet spot on my keyboard.:p

[flickerfriend]

Wow! i like he silver Thamnophis Siralis Sirtalis! he/she looks awsome!

[Yonner]

Very beautiful snakes!

[BUSHSNAKE]

"This genus(Thamnophis) has long stood in the minds of herpetologists as a synonyn for chaos" Ruthven,1908
"A number of studies have attempted to reduce the taxonomic confusion by documenting variability within many of the species and producing taxonomies that reflect evolutionary history" Rossman,1996

[ConcinusMan]

"chaos" good way to describe it. Hopefully more DNA studies will come in future years to clear up some of that chaos.

[BUSHSNAKE]

what its saying is that people dont understand their varibility so its caused a lot of confusion, which is obvious!

[Snakers]

what its saying is that people dont understand their varibility so its caused a lot of confusion, which is obvious!
very obvious.......

[BUSHSNAKE]

thats been reconized over a hundred years and people still dont get it

[The Snake Whisperer]

Those are beautiful, what Thamnophis variety are they and what colors were their parents? If you get babies for sale, I hope you will let me know.

[BUSHSNAKE]

Awesome snakes Jeff, i gotta find one of those blue chicago garters!

[Jeff B]

You mean green chicago?:D mine is definately green not blue. Well actually you can go find a blue one and then we will breed my green one to your blue one and make a green one with blue spots and a white dorsal stripe, now that would be a cool looking snake, aeeeh?:D

[Mommy2many]

Love the silver-purple one!

[Jeff B]

Yeah but you should know they are even uglier and more purple in person.;)

Love the silver-purple one!

[BUSHSNAKE]

ok ok so its green

[charles parenteau]

Wow beautiful snake especially the male flame with orange on his vertebral strippe nice!!