Red Spotted Garter Snake

[ConcinusMan]

It's been done twice already. I had a blue pair, selected for their awesome blueness, and brumated them last winter. They locked up for about 45 minutes but never produced a litter, slugs, or anything. Same thing happened this spring with Shannon. A pair I sent her right out of brumation, locked up a few days after she got them. Again, nothing. No litter. Good luck! I sure would like to see a litter produced. I'm curious to see if the babies start out anery or normal looking. I have seen plenty of babies in that area of Oregon, but never a baby anery. All anery's I have found have always been adults.

[RedSidedSPR]

I would LOOOOOVE to see a litter born.

Concinnus are fast becoming my favorite snake and those anerys are nooo exception.

[kibakiba]

Concinnus are one of my favourites... NWs will always be at the top, though

[sirtalis01]

I hope they prove out... Richard at what temps did you hybernate them and did you have belly heat for the female or room temp when she was gravid?

Link to a vid of the female anery
YouTube - Anery Oregon Red Spotted

[ConcinusMan]

45-50 degrees F for about 12 weeks. I use overhead heat (basking bulb/heat emitter) so one end of the tank is close to 90 degrees, the other end in the low 70's. Don't know what Shannon did but I did the brumating and sent the snakes to her right out of brumation. They bred within days of her receiving them. Her girl didn't produce anything and niether did mine, in spite of enthusiastic breeding and lockup taking place.

Ironically, I got two litters of normals this season and they were from females which I did not brumate. I only brumated the males. The anery male that produced normals (by breeding with a normal unbrumated female) is the same male that bred with the brumated anery girl so I know he's fertile but the anery girl just didn't produce anything. She didn't ovulate even though she let him lock up.

Don't misunderstand, she never was gravid and that's my point. Both my anery girl and shannon's were brumated, and mated soon after coming out, but neither one of the anery girls got gravid. No slugs, no babies, nothing.