More babies !!!

[Gijs & Sabine]

Yesterday the doughter of our giant plains female gave birth to 16 healthy babies !!! They all look fine and no dead or deformed ones. So that's not bad for the first time:)

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010231Small.jpg



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And this is the mother. She has a different colour than most plains, almost like a sirtalis florida blue
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/1179/p1010258smallvc2.jpg

[Stefan-A]

Really beautiful snakes, both the mother and the babies. Congratulations! :)

[adamanteus]

Hi Sabine. I'll take 1.2 please!:D ;)

Congratulations on your new arrivals. Very beautiful.

[Gijs & Sabine]

Hahaha, too funny, james:D
But ok, I write down your order:p

[Stefan-A]

James, you're not alone. :D

[Gijs & Sabine]

That's ok, I'll take your order as well, Stefan:D

[adamanteus]

In fact, a brief message to anyone who breeds anything......
1.2 please!:rolleyes:

[Gijs & Sabine]

In that case, Gijs has breed sharks at his work at the zoo. Shall I ship you 1.2 ?:D

[adamanteus]

Sure. I have a little fish tank somewhere, I think!:eek:

What type of shark have they bred?

[Gijs & Sabine]

baby nurse sharks, but the dwarfform (not sure if i spelled it correct)
It's the first time they are bred in captivety.

[adamanteus]

Well, congratulations to Gijs and his work collegues!

[Stefan-A]

That's ok, I'll take your order as well, Stefan:D
I appreciate it. :D

Seriously speaking, as much as I would like to take a few off your hands, I need to realize that I'm already critically over budget with my snake hobby. :(

[adamanteus]

Seriously speaking...I was serious. 1.2 please. T. radix is (and always has been) one of my favourites.

[MoJo]

Awww - they're so cute! Great photo of the baby in the palm of your hand. Mom is gorgeous too. Congratulations.

Joanna

[Snaky]

Congrats on the little one's, they're beauties!

[drache]

I'd prefer the garter babies myself
too bad I'm too gar away
they are very beautiful

[mikm]

CONGRATS !!! Don't think I will ever tire of seeing baby garters ... Radix are such beautiful animals ... The Mom is very nice ... thank you so much for the pics and again congrats :) :) !!

[WBR]

Gijs & Sabine,
I would be very very interested indeed, in acquiring some of these babies - so please keep updates coming as to their progress and availability.
Cheers,
Brian.

[Thamnophis]

That mothersnake looks very fine (the young too).

[romina]

Congratulations on the baby's.
Today I went to the zoo where Gijs works, could it be that I've seen those baby sharks? Or were these the elder ones?
To bad, there were no garthers though ;)
Greetings Romina

[Gijs & Sabine]

Yesterday our female T. elegans terrestris 'red morph' has given birth to 15 very good looking babies. I've noticed that these are a little bigger than the eastern and plains babies we've had earlier.
The father is extreem red so I'm curious if the babies will become more red when they get older:rolleyes:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010232Small.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010236Small.jpg
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010237Small.jpg

[adamanteus]

What can I say? More beautiful babies!

[Snaky]

Congrats again:D

[ScimitarX]

Congrats!!! beautiful babies each time!!:)

[ssssnakeluvr]

Sweet!!!! Can't wait for mine to pop!!! I have a western terrestrial, a large female with some maroon, hoping to get a high red male this summer!!!!

[Cazador]

You guys are having an awesome spring. Congratulations.

Rick

[Thamnophis]

Fantastic animals. Congratulations!!!

[Odie]

Way cool man :)

[Stefan-A]

Congratulations! Again. ;)

[drache]

what abundance of beautiful babies
needless to say - I'm envious
these are my favourites yet

[Gijs & Sabine]

I hope you guys are not getting tired with all my baby pics:o But I have some more. Two days ago one of our T. marcianus marcianus females has given birth to 11 pretty babies. This was the first time for her to have babies.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010245Small.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010249Small.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010251Small.jpg

[kjell]

they are beautiful!!:)

[drache]

those are so beautiful
I've never seen them other than in pictures
of course now I want them
ah - all the pretty snakes

[Stefan-A]

How could we possibly get tired of baby pictures? ;) :D Pictures of beautiful snakes are always welcome.

Congratulations!

[Snaky]

Going great there! congrats again:)

[Odie]

Beeeautiful snakes mon :cool:

[garterchick]

awsome! congratulations, again. some day i'll be flooded with babies....
tina

[adamanteus]

As Stefan rightly says we could never get fed up of baby pictures. Congratulation again!

[Sputnik]

They are stunning!

[ScimitarX]

Wow they are really beautiful!! Congrats again!! I never tire of seeing baby snakes.

[Gijs & Sabine]

Yesterday was a wonderfull day !! One of our T.sirtalis tetrataenia females gave birth to 23 babies !!!! No dead or deformed ones, all beautifull and very alive. This was the first time for us to have san francisco babies.
We have another pregnant female, she did shed 2 days after this female, so it shouldn't be too long now.

ps. Sorry to all the Americans to not be aloud to keep the san francisco's : (

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http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010226Small.jpg

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[adamanteus]

Concratulation! Gorgeous looking babies! (1.2?):D

[Stefan-A]

Congratulations!

Again, I'd love to take 1.2 off your hands, but considering that I have no idea how to get them from there to here (or what organs I'd have to sell to afford it), it's better not to dream.

[chris87]

they are beautiful babies congratulations.

[Dracaena828]

Wow, they are truely beautiful little snakes. I am so jealous. Maybe one of these days I'll have to move.... ;) No, really I do love California, but it would be nice to get some of those. I can't even buy the Califonia red-sided! One of these days I will have to learn where is a good place to go look for someout in the wild, I've never done that before. Congrats on your lovely babies!
Angela

[poissonguppy]

Congrats on the several batches of babies. Post more! no one can tire of baby snake pics!

[Gijs & Sabine]

Thnx everyone for the kind words :)

[ScimitarX]

Absolutely Stunning!!!! :D

[Thamnophis]

I think they are very ugly! :D

Congratulations...

[Odie]

Dude, way cool mon :cool:

[GarterGuy]

Congrats on the new little SanFrans. Yeh, does suck we can't get them here, but we can just go outside and see lots of other ones...so guess it's a trade off.:D
Roy

[Snaky]

Congrats again, they're very nice!

@ Stefan: Sabine & Gijs have a lot of different garters... In a weekend trip your collection can grow a lot;)

[Stefan-A]

Oh, I bet it could. :D

Couldn't make the trip even if I wanted to, but the thing I really worry about is the paperwork and transportation.

[drache]

Congrats again
they're lovely and of course babies are always cute
you must be swimming in babies by now

[MoJo]

Congratulations! They are gorgeous.

How long after they shed have your girls given birth.

Joanna

[Gijs & Sabine]

Congratulations! They are gorgeous.

How long after they shed have your girls given birth.

Joanna

Around 2 weeks, sometimes a little bit longer.

[reptileparadise]

...very, very, very nice thread!!!

Congratulations with all your babies!

[chris87]

how old is the mother?

[boeh]

Congratulation to the youngstars Gijs and Sabine, they are wonderful :-) Would love to see more pictures of the plain mother.

Cyrill

[Elliot]

Congrats on the new little SanFrans. Yeh, does suck we can't get them here, but we can just go outside and see lots of other ones...so guess it's a trade off.:D
Roy

Pssh I wish, all we have here are ribbon snakes! lol

[Gijs & Sabine]

how old is the mother?

The san francisco mother that give birth is 4 years old. The other san francisco that should pop anytime soon is 3 years old.

[Gijs & Sabine]

And our 3 year old san francisco female has given birth today to only 4 babies. She had about 7 unfertilized eggs and one not fully developed baby. But the 4 babies are beautifull and doing great.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010236Small-1.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010245Small-1.jpg

And thanks everybody for the kind words :)

[Snaky]

It's a pitty that 7 weren't fertilized, but hopefully next year that will be a lot better;)

Congrats again on the new babies:)

[*A*]

Wow, some seriously gorgeous snakes! I really do wish i had more room...:( I would love to breed some of my own one day!
Congrats on the lil ones!!

[drache]

they're lovely
congrats again

[chris87]

ok cool. very nice babies

[chris87]

how big is the mother?
thanks

[Gijs & Sabine]

how big is the mother?
thanks

Sorry, missed that one :o
Both San francisco females are about 1 meter long.

[adamanteus]

Sabine, that would be 1 metre long, not 1 metre tall!! Haha.:D

[Gijs & Sabine]

Last week has been very succesfull !!
We've got a few babies more. One of our proximus proximus (ribbon) gave birth to 25 fine babies.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010234Small-5.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010237Small-2.jpg

[Gijs & Sabine]

And one of our albino marcianus (checkered) females gave birth to 8 nice babies. The father is a normal colored male, so all the babies are het for albino.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010225Small.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010227Small-1.jpg

[adamanteus]

Beauiful Checkereds, Sabine.

[Gijs & Sabine]

And today we've got 1 melanistic sirtalis (black eastern) and one het for melanistic. We're very happy with these babies :) . Actualy we didn't expect them, because earlier other black females gave unfertilized eggs, so we thought the other females will have that as well. Luckely not ;)

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010226Small-1.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010231Small-2.jpg

[adamanteus]

More great news! You can stop now...you're making me jealous!

[Gijs & Sabine]

Sabine, that would be 1 metre long, not 1 metre tall!! Haha.:D

Haha, thanks James :D My english is getting better by the day !
I've changed it right away!!

[Gijs & Sabine]

More great news! You can stop now...you're making me jealous!

:D We're not done yet........ we expect some more. One of them should be our absolutely gorgeous sirtalis infernalis:D

[adamanteus]

Dare I say it?..... 1.2 please!:rolleyes: :D

[Lulu Bennett]

awww thoes marcianus are beautiful! i fancy some normal ones too they look so nice.

[zooplan]

Happy birthday!
nice little ´marcianus
but the ´sirtalisare looking huge for their first day on earth
you should try to weigh them

[Stefan-A]

Congratulations! I'd say 1.2 of both, but who am I kidding. Unless of course somebody knows a fast and not incredibly expensive way to get them from the Netherlands to Finland alive. ;)

[Sputnik]

Aww so lovely. :) What cute dots they all have on their heads!


Make my heart feel a little heavy after just losing our three.

[Gijs & Sabine]

I feel really sorry for you Esther :( I hope you'll find the other 2, and the one you already found will survive. Don't give up hope!!

[adamanteus]

Esther, has the one you found taken a drink of water yet?

[Gijs & Sabine]

@ Stefan: I suggest you go to the Hamm show in september !! We'll go as well. I have to admit it's extreme busy, but it is worth it :)

[adamanteus]

@ Stefan: I suggest you go to the Hamm show in september !! We'll go as well. I have to admit it's extreme busy, but it is worth it :)

Yeah, come on, Stefan. I'm going, it would be great to meet you.:)

[Lulu Bennett]

i cant go :( i really want to go

[adamanteus]

Why can't you go? There are quite a few from the UK going over this time.

[Lulu Bennett]

i can't afford it. im already going white water rafting when i go camping in north wales and also saving to go to syria next year :(

[Lulu Bennett]

oh yeah and im a jobless bum!! :rolleyes:

[adamanteus]

That's a shame:( . But rafting and Syria should be fun!:D

[Lulu Bennett]

it will be fantastic. i cant wait!!!!!

[Stefan-A]

As much as I would like to go to Hamm, I'm not much for travelling. :o

The best I could possibly do, is have somebody who's going to Hamm pick them up for me.

[adamanteus]

Sabine, what others are you still waiting for, apart from the infernalis?

[Gijs & Sabine]

one more proximus proximus, more radix, more marcianus and maybe cyrtopsis and ......?? You never know what more ;)

[adamanteus]

Sabine, it's been such a good year for you. Is every year like this? You really are an inspiration to us all.

[Gijs & Sabine]

Haha, thanks James. It's getting better every year now. Next year we'll have more differend garters :rolleyes: A.atratus, s.florida blue, s.concinnus, p.rubrilineatus, e.vagrans, s.melanistic and more......

[Stefan-A]

I'll type this here, since I already started on the subject.

I'm trying to find someone willing to pick up a few snakes from the Hamm show, already got a possible contact. If that fails, I'll try to get a seat on some Swedish herp association's bus. If that fails..

Not a chance that some courier service might be willing to transport snakes, for a reasonable price (not cheap, just reasonable)?

[Lee]

Lol your so lucky, hopefully next year I'll have a post about my babies. Congrats & Good luck!

[Gijs & Sabine]

@Lee: Thanks Lee. I can tell it's so exciting to expect baby garters :)
Looking forward to your little ones :rolleyes:

[Sid]

:D Congradulations again. You have such an outstanding collection.

Sid

[Gijs & Sabine]

Today was a great day for us :) Our 2 year-old T.s.infernalis gave birth to 10 very nice babies ! I've noticed that these babies are quite big. Like Udo said earlier, it'll be interesting to weigh them. I'll probebly do that tommorow.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010231Small-3.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010233Small-1.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010246Small.jpg

[Josh]

i love them
i love them
i love them
not much more to say.

[Elliot]

Today was a great day for us :) Our 2 year-old T.s.infernalis gave birth to 10 very nice babies ! I've noticed that these babies are quite big. Like Udo said earlier, it'll be interesting to weigh them. I'll probebly do that tommorow.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010231Small-3.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010233Small-1.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010246Small.jpg

Beautiful babies guys! I love garters with reds on them. They're California Red-sideds right?

[Gijs & Sabine]

That's right, Elliot :)

[adamanteus]

Sabine, just stop now! You're beginning to get on my nerves!:D :rolleyes:

[Josh]

How old are the parents?

[adamanteus]

Josh, she just told us....2 years old!:D

[Elliot]

That's right, Elliot :)

They're pretty much my dream snake :rolleyes:

[Josh]

Josh, she just told us....2 years old!:D
Sorry scrolling up would have been a lot of work.:rolleyes: :D :cool:

[Gijs & Sabine]

I know they're quite young, but this female was growing like crazy. She has the size of a 3 year-old, 80-90 cm. I quess she is going to be very big :rolleyes:

[Josh]

I know they're quite young, but this female was growing like crazy. She has the size of a 3 year-old, 80-90 cm. I quess she is going to be very big :rolleyes:
Wow Do you think you can post a pic?

[drache]

congrats again
they're beautiful

[Gijs & Sabine]

@ Josh: It's an old picture :o , by now she a lot bigger. I'll see if I can make a new one soon.

Thnx everybody for the nice words, .......again;)

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/P1010319Small.jpg

[Josh]

All of your snakes seem veryy photogenic:)

[Gijs & Sabine]

All of your snakes seem veryy photogenic:)

Thanks Josh, but I think this is a very bad picture, there's sh*t on the bark and the glass and the snake is hiding :D

This is a better one, but this is one of our infernalis when we bought them as a baby.

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q85/gijssabine/infernalis-1.jpg

[Josh]

Hey i thought it was good.

[Sputnik]

Sabine, just stop now! You're beginning to get on my nerves!:D :rolleyes:

Saturday evening, 8 o'clock, BBC1, James. ;)

[GarterGirl]

That's ok, I'll take your order as well, Stefan:D

Me too please!
I will take 1 or 2.
Male or female.
I don't care.:D

[adamanteus]

Saturday evening, 8 o'clock, BBC1, James. ;)

Sorry, Esther....I'm being a bit stupid I'm sure, but I don't follow......Is "Casualty" on BBC1 at that time?:confused:

[Sputnik]

No, the National Lottery. :D

[adamanteus]

Ahh, the lottery....in my dreams!

[Brian]

Very nice! congradulations.