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Garter Snake Morph

by Jeff Benfer
Garter snake breeder, specializing in various garter snake morphs
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This gallery contains photos of some of the breeders (not all breeders are shown)
 
 
The pics above contain my favorite 4 breeder males, hopefully the boys will get r' done this spring.
The blue axanthic plains, the green axanthic chicago garter,   red/orange erythristic flame eastern, and the purple silver eastern.
 
 
 
Thamnophis parietalis (red-sided) worlds first snow and her albino sister. These girls are growing fast and should breed spring of 2010.
 
 
 
Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis (left pic. Iowa red-sided)(right pic. double het. Kansas albino and anerythristic red-sided)
 
 
 
 
Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis (red-sided females with anerythristic male)
 
 
 
Thamnophis radix  (Iowa Snow Plains)
 
 
 Thamnophis radix  (Iowa Albino Plains)
 
 
Thamnophis radix  (Nebraska Strain Albino Plains)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thamnophis radix (Blue Axanthic het Iowa Snow Plains)
 
 
 
 Thamnophis radix (red variant)
 
 
Thamnophis radix (het. Xmas Albino)
 
 
 
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (melanistic eastern)
 
 
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (flame eastern)
 
 
 
 
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (albino flame eastern)
 
 
 Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (erythristic albino eastern)
 
 
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (Carteret Co. cherry red erythristic het albino)
 
 
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis  (Silver eastern morph)this is undoubtedly one of if not the hottest morphs, this male along with 12 het silvers, these were aquired from Scott Felzer in 2009, and in our oppinion is one of the most exciting new morphs. There are limited numbers of silvers in existance, and there will undoubtedly be some interesting combos produced in combination with this morph in the future. It appears to be a simple recessive gene and appears to reduce melanin as well as xathins and erythrins. This will be one of my top priority breeding projects in the next few years.
 
 
 Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis  (Eastern)
 
 
 
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis   (New York paradox albino x Florida erythristic double hets) this is an exciting new project and if all goes well we should produce in spring 2010 a new line of erythristic albinos that will be different and likely not compatible with the Shuett albino. Incidentally Scott Felzer produced a very small litter of these double hets, the original paradox albino has died, and Scott has kept the only other pair in the US, so it is extremely important that we keep this line going.
 
 
 
 
Thamnophis marcianus (Granite Checkered morph)- a relatively new recessive trait, I will be breeding this trait to combine with albino and hypo checkered morphs.
 
 
 
Thamnophis marcianus (Hypo Checkered)-this is a relatively new morph that is a co-dominant trait, which seems to make the yellow-tan background brighter and cleaner, as well as making the black checkers crisper. I will be crossing this with the granite with the  hope of producing a bighter yellow granite.
 
 
 
 
 Thamnophis sirtalis semifasciatus (Chicago garter-Axanthic morph) This is one of my newer aquisitions along with this snake I also aquired a golden morph of the Chicago garter, not completely certain of the sexes I put the two togather so fingers crossed, although they are a bit on the small size, however this a smaller sub-species of sirtalis, this sub-species is most noted for it's pronounced barring which is evident in the photo of this Axanthic morph specimen.
 
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