Gravid garter snake pics?

[ConcinusMan]

Damn. That's almost exactly the eastern morph I've been searching for. But it is a Canadian morph which does me no good unless I can find it here in the U.S. I want very, very black, and very brilliant yellow.

nope. not gravid

Agreed. Not even close. Just halfway decent normal body mass. Nothing to suggest she's gravid.

Gravid females will rapidly gain body mass in the last 1/3 of the body. Much of that is gained within 30 days of mating. After 30 days that last part of the body will often get even thicker than the upper parts, and will feel heavy and dense.

[Philminator]

thanks for the info, I've never seen a snake give birth and I'd find it so amazing if I could witness some babies being born Yeah I just compared her to the other few I have her length and quite a difference, she's at least twice as thick. I guess it's the stretching where you see yellow dots between the scales like when they eat that made me think she might of been rather than her just being thick normally. I like her either way.

[ssssnakeluvr]

too fat too far up towards the head..... heres my gravid eastern

[RedSidedSPR]

Wow she's awesome! I've never seen one like that, black and grey but not the face....

[ssssnakeluvr]

she is a nice one.... not quite black and gray.. hard to get real good shots inside....especially when they wont sit still... slightly green with nice yellow head should be popping any time now... she is from Ohio where the melanistics are found...possibly carries the mel gene

[RedSidedSPR]

Cool, I love the colors! That's a really cool look. Can't wait for babies

[ConcinusMan]

Now that's what a gravid garter looks like. They'll expand so much in the lower half or 1/3, that you will see "scale spread" that is, gaps between the scales.

There are exceptions. Sometimes you don't even notice a big gain in size, especially if they only have 1-5 babies inside.