breeding garters

[deadhead]

hey guys really wanting to expand my collection as I have breeding corns for quite some time now and am wondering what garter would be best! I really was interested in checkers but haven't found any morphs other than granite and albino so was leaning toward the plains garter or eastern garter any recommendations? Also what would be the outcome of a melanistic albino eastern?
Thanks in advance!

[Zdravko092368]

Easterns and Plains are your best bet, they have the most morphs available, are the easiest to obtain(besides checkereds) and are generally easy to care for. A melanistic x albino makes an amelanistic melanistic, but they are called Snows since the guy who ran the garter breeding show back when these first came around called them that.

But they don't look like snows and are not created by an Anery x Albino like a typical snow in other species, they are basically a brown looking melanistic, solid brown no pattern.

[deadhead]

Thanks for the info it helped a lot! And now is there no anery eastern? And if that would be considered a snow then what would an anery x albino be? And also what is the difference between the strains of albinos in plains like the Christmas. Iowa, etc are they compatible? Sorry for all the questions and thanks again!

[BUSHSNAKE]

Thanks for the info it helped a lot! And now is there no anery eastern? And if that would be considered a snow then what would an anery x albino be? And also what is the difference between the strains of albinos in plains like the Christmas. Iowa, etc are they compatible? Sorry for all the questions and thanks again!

no there is no anery eastern. Easterns are not normally red so an eastern in their natural form is anerythristic but we dont call normals anerythristic

[Tommytradix]

no there is no anery eastern. Easterns are not normally red so an eastern in their natural form is anerythristic but we dont call normals anerythristic

how do you explain flames and erythristics then? in canada flames are all over even here in new jersey i have caught flames. erythrism is very common in easterns

[Zdravko092368]

I really don't know much about Radix, radix masters are Guidofatherof5 and Tommy T. Radix. I'm sure they'll post eventually.

[Tommytradix]

plains are a great garter to start with they are very easy to breed and care for all strains of radix are compatible and the 'christmas' is just an iowa albino bred to a red plains then the offspring were then bred back creating red albinos

[Jeff B]

plains are a great garter to start with they are very easy to breed and care for all strains of radix are compatible and the 'christmas' is just an iowa albino bred to a red plains then the offspring were then bred back creating red albinos

Tommy, your statement "all stains of radix are compatible" is not technically correct. The "Iowa strain" albino is a T- and the "Nebraska strain" albino is a T+, just as with most snake species (and other animals too) in which these two types of albinism are present in a species they are NOT compatible. If you breed a pure "Nebraska strain" to a pure "Iowa strain" you will get all normals. This has been proven many times. Confusion can arise now a days because so many times these two types have been bred to each other or hets and possible hets arrise, so there are a lot of radix circulating that are visual for one type but hidden or unbeknown to the owner; het for the other gene.

[Tommytradix]

Tommy, your statement "all stains of radix are compatible" is not technically correct. The "Iowa strain" albino is a T- and the "Nebraska strain" albino is a T+, just as with most snake species (and other animals too) in which these two types of albinism are present in a species they are NOT compatible. If you breed a pure "Nebraska strain" to a pure "Iowa strain" you will get all normals. This has been proven many times. Confusion can arise now a days because so many times these two types have been bred to each other or hets and possible hets arrise, so there are a lot of radix circulating that are visual for one type but hidden or unbeknown to the owner; het for the other gene.

didnt you produce one of each albino from one parent and the rest slugs? i havnt tried to breed the 2 strains but am pretty sure i seen it on your page awhile back. you really do need to update it lol theres alot that has changed in the past couple years lol

[Tommytradix]

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