Jellybeans.. female only tank?

[adamanteus]

Maybe we should conduct an experiment? Anyone with neonate Wandering Garters fancy trying it out?

[Stefan-A]

Maybe we should conduct an experiment? Anyone with neonate Wandering Garters fancy trying it out?

Huh, what?

[adamanteus]

Someone could keep an all female group in a rich environment, providing an abundance of everything, except mates.... and see if they reproduce.

[ssssnakeluvr]

hmmmmm...I have wandering garters all over out here....I might give it a try. I have a western terretrial female that threw a slug 2 summers ago and hasn't been with a male for 3 years before that....

[adamanteus]

I guess you're just the man for the job, Don! Could you keep a female (or two) from birth and raise them in isolation... and see what happens?
I think the key might be to offer an environment that could sustain a higher population, but deprive them of an opportunity to mate.
If parthenogenesis is possible in Garter Snakes, it would be nice if Thamnophis.com proved it!

[ssssnakeluvr]

just keep reminding me.....I can get a gravid female or 2 from out here somewhere, have an awesome 20 gal long tank to raise them in, and can post info on them. gonna be fun!!!!

[mycolorfulheart]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if parthenogenesis was possible. I'm not planning on breeding Raven, (and the last day of her brumation she had like 10 jelly beans) so we'll see what happens! I keep hearing more and more reports of parthenogenesis happening in more and more reptile species; i expect that the more captive-bred reptiles the world is keeping, more and more species will be shown to have this trait. Cool stuff!

[anji1971]

Okay, here's a question.......
How come some snakes throw so many jellybeans, and some hardly any?? When I had Dojo she only threw one in the whole two years, and Deejay never has. Mind you, Deejay's been alone since birth.
But some of you have snakes popping out jellybeans right and left, it seems. Is there a reason for the difference??