New litter of Easterns (WC)

[wxknight]

I found a few orange and reddish easterns where I live in MA. One or two of them dropped about 60 babies one night and the next day a third dropped 10, then one I though was a male dropped even more. So I had around 80 neonates slithering around the tank. I let the adults and all but 12 of the babies go since. Here are some pictures.
And I was wondering if babies get more colorful with age because I figured I'd have more red and orange ones but they aren't showing amy crazy colors. They have gotten a little more colorful after a few days though.

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[chris-uk]

Welcome to the forum.

I don't keep Easterns, but I believe the colours will intensify if the particular scrub has a disposition to a red or orange. However Eastern Garters are highly variable in their colouring so you may not get the same sort of colours as you saw on the mother.

[d_virginiana]

They do color up as they get older. How many are you planning on keeping? If you don't want to keep 12, I'd say you should pick the 3-4 that have the brightest coloration. Looking at the pictures, there were a couple that stood out above the others color-wise.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Do you have any pics of the adults?

[wxknight]

A couple more. I don't have many of the third female which looks similar to the more red one, but the checkerboard pattern had a hint of green which was cool.
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[Frenchie]

On The first pic one of the females has a nipped tail :-O

A couple more. I don't have many of the third female which looks similar to the more red one, but the checkerboard pattern had a hint of green which was cool.
adults 2.jpgadults 3.jpgadults.jpg

[wxknight]

a hypo kinda.jpga orangy.jpga red and friedn rock.jpga red oct branch.jpga redski.jpg
Got a couple nice orange ones and one reddish/orange. Then still some local normal yellows.

[wxknight]

Does anyone think the redder one could be a morph? Like erythristic or low end flame? Or you think it's just a redder normal? I'll also post more pics soon of what I think is an anery that I posted a couple weeks about.

[wxknight]

a stripless sorta.jpg Heres one of the more stripless one. The "anery" looks just like this one but with less color. Totally white underneath and no ornage/red and very little if any yellow.

[wxknight]

adults 3.jpg

I thought this one looked like a flame, but lacking the deep red. Has that whitish stripe and more colorful flank stripes.