And then there was a new morph?

[Eight]

I must admit that if I ended up with one and it wasn't in any obvious pain I would probably give it a chance to see how well it got on.

[paulh]

I must have missed any discussion about a two headed garter in this thread. What two headed garter? and why did it have to be put down?

See the first post in this thread.

I have to admit I'd probably try to raise a two-headed baby. And then sell it for all the traffic would bear.

I love the looks of all the babies, both silvers and normals.

[ProXimuS]

Richard, is/was that one of yours?!

[BUSHSNAKE]

It is a prefix regardless of the world, and the reptile world needs to come up with a word with sufficient descriptive power.

they have...hypomelanistic, hypoerythristic and hypoaxanthic....a hypo burm is hypomelanistic and hypoaxanthic, they just dont call it that...most people understand that without having to say it.

[ProXimuS]

I think most everyone had a pretty good idea on what was meant. But you are kind of proving the point of the "argument"... There are many different "hypos" and without the root word it's unclear on what is meant.


And you know what they say happens when you assume....

[Stefan-A]

they have...hypomelanistic, hypoerythristic and hypoaxanthic....a hypo burm is hypomelanistic and hypoaxanthic, they just dont call it that...most people understand that without having to say it.

Then they should use them.

[Steveo]

they have...hypomelanistic, hypoerythristic and hypoaxanthic....a hypo burm is hypomelanistic and hypoaxanthic, they just dont call it that...most people understand that without having to say it.

Since I'm not into burms, I had no idea that's what was meant.

Kinda reminds me of "bro speak" at the gym... don't talk in code, just say what you mean.

[BUSHSNAKE]

Then they should use them.

i use to think that too

[Stefan-A]

i use to think that too

What convinced you?

[ConcinusMan]

Richard, is/was that one of yours?!

No. I can't remember his name but there's some rich dude that buys up oddities like this. He paid a ridiculously large amount of money for it. As soon as this thing was revealed to the world, (it was kept a secret well into adulthood) the lies/false "facts" started immediately, starting with "There are eight known two-headed snakes in the world, but this is the only snake which is both two headed and albino." Which is completely false. There are way more than 8 "two-headed" snakes in captivity in the world, and several of those are also albino.

It is however, probably the only "two-headed" garter snake alive today, and actually, I don't even know if this thing is still alive but it seems reasonably likely that it is.

Anyway, instead of staying off topic you can read more about it here:

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gene...checkered.html