New wild caught albino plains T.radix

[Jeff B]

Wow, talk about an exciting week, this week I aquired some amazing new animals.
First and foremost today I aquired a newly found wild caught Albino plains garter T. radix.
This snake was aquired from Chad Howser, this snake was found in Dodge Co. in Nebraska, about 50 miles west of Omaho. This general area is rich with morphs and has produced several albinos and erythristic (red) radix over the years. This albino was found in the general region were my red radix was found that I aquired from Ian Cambell last year. I believe this snake may end up being compatible to the current Nebraska albino strain, however it may not, and while it has some similarities in appearance it has some definately distiguishing characteristics as well and I belive that is has some of the red radix characteristics as well. This animal has a much lighter and duller straw colored background color, the eyes are lighter, yet a much darker orange dorsal stripe, and has orange color surrounding the dark checkers on the sides, and it has a pinkish/orangish ghostly look to it. I think this snake has some similarities to the snake Steves "Rita" that he found in the same general area last year, which is why I was extremely dissapointed to hear of her passsing, but at least he still has the babies from her and maybe we will still be able to do some shared breeding efforts.




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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

[Hollis_Steed]

Jeff, congratulations on a beautiful addition!

[GartersRock]

That is a very unique looking albino!! Congrats!

[otis lee]

sweet! super congrats!!

[guidofatherof5]

Very, very nice. Congrats.

[oki-inu]

I like the orange stripe. Nice snake!

[ConcinusMan]

That is gorgeous! What a find! I'm so jealous. The only garter snake morphs I've ever found were melanistic T. ordinoides. Well, then there's the "blue" anery concinnus but those are plentiful in certain locations.

[Jeff B]

Thanks guys, yah I got lucky because this snake was caught about a month ago and pictures were posted of it on a local pet shops facebook page, but luckily it didn't receive a ton of attention otherwise I would have maybe got in a bidding war, like the other wild caughts this year and I would have come up short. Lucky for me I had talked with Chad several times last year about corn snakes that I had for sale and so he knew I was big into garters and contacted me first. I paid a pretty penny for this snake but I love it even though I will not likely make my money back any time soon. It is a male, was actually hoping it was a female and I was going to breed it to my Ian Cambell red radix, but I have a couple other ideas now. Need to talk with Steve about one idea that we had previously arranged. I will be calling you Steve, so don't be ignoring my call, lol

[ConcinusMan]

I never have been all that fond of nebraska's but that WC you have there is gorgeous. I wonder if it's actually a different strain?

[mustang]

wow awsome!