baby lust

[adamanteus]

I would have said parietalis..... but then I've never had a vagrans, so maybe you should disregard my opinion!

[drache]

I emailed Scott, to ask him about the red.
When I got Sammy, I got her along with two parietalis, and even the duller looking one has far more red than Sammy. In addition, all my parietalis have very distinct yellow dorsal stripes. Sammy's dorsal stripe is neither distinct nor yellow.
my vet was mumbling something about different population strains - wish I'd paid more attention then.

[ssssnakeluvr]

where was the snake found at.....it shows you in new york...if it was found in that area, most definitely sirtalis

[drache]

she wasn't found
she was captive bred
so that part doesn't really apply
I'm starting to become a little stressed over this over this
it's like an identity crisis

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

i swear it looks exactly like my red-sided just faded a little bit

[ssssnakeluvr]

well...no need to get stressed... i would say its an eastern....doesn't look like a parietalis to me. lots of easterns have small to large amounts of red or orange. I have many photos stored here of various garters...lots of pics of easterns with red and orange.

[RZL36]

I think it is parietalis.
Check out this photo.

http://www.minaxtarantulas.net/galle...narcisse_5.jpg


The easterns I've seen carry the red stronger on the bottom scales and they usually got some checkered patterning (sans melanistic).

Plus my easterns from the same clutch are pretty different looking. One is Mr. Blue and one is Mr. Brown.

[Loren]

Just a thought. Even if it is captive bred, perhaps it is a cross of 2 species? Sometimes people keep numorous species together.

[anji1971]

Whatever type of garter Sammy may be, she is definitely a beauty! Hope you have lots of her babies one day Rhea!

[drache]

that does sound a lot like most of you don't think she could be a T.e.vagrans
hm
I'm not entirely sure why, but it is a little upsetting I guess
I keep pulling out books
Scott emailed me back
from the pic, he's agreeing with everybody here, but he's gonna pull his records and see where she came from
so - more later