Pied Garters.. Has anyone seen this?

[Jeff B]

I have 3 het pied males that are breeder size now and doing great. All 7 of my females and 2 males died right away when I got them, they looked like they had some kind of white patches of fungus on them. Never seen anything like it. I had a 4th male that was doing great and I traded it to Jason, so he would have 2 for backup and I figured I didn't need 4. I'm kind of ticked off that all my females died and didn't get replaced like someone elses did, so I will be taking the long hard way with proving out poss hets like Jason.

[Eddie]

Jeff
Sorry to here that all your females died. That stinks! One of my females died very early on so I thought I might lose them all. Two of them grew like weeds and I could probably try to breed them now but I think I am going to wait till next spring at this point.
Good luck with the males. I will let you know if I end up with any baby females and send you one or two.
Ed

[Dan72]

Ed are you breeding the brother and sister to each other?

[Eddie]

Yes, I am going to breed the brother and sister together to try and prove out the pied gene.
Ed

[Invisible Snake]

Big news, Scott Felzer has proved out the trait and will be selling piebald garters this year!!

[ConcinusMan]

I don't know if he actually did or even claimed he did, but if you look at his website it seems like he did. You can bet they're going to be expensive. Personally, they don't really even appeal to me. I hardly think a normal snake with a few white spots on it is all that thrilling. To each his own I guess. Now, if it was mostly white with a few normal spots, that would be awesome.

[Greg'sGarters]

Scott Felzer will be selling pieds next year. He told me that they would cost $1000-$5000 each. I'm so excited!

[ConcinusMan]

Good grief

[Greg'sGarters]

Good grief

I know, it's crazy. You should see the looks on my friends faces when I tell them that a garter snake, the type they can catch around here can sell for up to $5000! Lol. I'm probably going to wait unit the price drops in a few years before I get one. New morphs will come out and the piebalds will go for less.

[ConcinusMan]

Not really. The only way they'll go for less is if people don't buy them at that price and supply starts piling up.