Just caught today

[brain]

She had/has mites?
She's beautiful.

Thanks Steve
No mites’ visible, but as a precaution I Provent-a-mite some Aspen as soon as I had her secured. I let that off gas about an hour then moved her to where she is now.
I’m not going thru the mite phase again.

[brain]

Is she really that blue color? She is awesome! Quite a striking snake.

Yes, from her head to tail the blue gets more predominate. Not to the point of the black as my other four.
This is the second snake I have caught in my back yard (½ acre with pond) in the past two years. In addition, I am noticing the coloring difference. This adult you can barely see the red where as the little scrub I caught last Oct 2010 has the red spots more predominate.

Her belly looks like she might be getting ready to shed.

Ready to shed, hum I’ll watch for that. When I caught her, she had a light gray coloration looking as though she was going to shed. However when she was placed in her viv she went straight to the water dish and washed off that old road dust and you see the colors much clearer.

[ConcinusMan]

That's it. I just gotta ask Dr. Robert Mason if he would be willing to compare DNA samples from our SW WA laterally striped concinnus' and those red phase pugets. The resemblance is uncanny.

[brain]

So I’m up this morning with my coffee and thought I would check on my animals. When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but 10 tiny little scrubs and 1 worn out mom.











Now the trick is feeding these hungry mouths. Yea worms and pinkie parts and monitoring.

[guidofatherof5]

Congrats.
Those are some big babies.

[brain]

TY
Just weighted three and the average weight in 3 grams. Time 10 mom was carrying a good bit of extra weight.

See how drawn she looks at the lower end of her body. Her belly scales are folded up over her. Now tahs was a skin stretcher

[RedSidedSPR]

Sweet!!!! That's awesome!

[Starling96]

There cute!
Do you plan to release them?

[katach]

That is awesome! Congrats!! if you are selling let me know we may want a male for our girls. Some time down the road though, not right away.

[d_virginiana]

Nice! That's always a good surprise