HI. I spring 1999 I caught a wild melanistic female eastern garter,she was nearly 3 feet,later in summer ,she drop 36 het babies... She had only two white scales under her chin, and the labial full black,so that was the first known melanistic eastern found in quebec.Jet black!!!
Later that year she became real sick ,she unfortunately died .One by one all baby died too.
Bad luck !
That was the most impressive specimen of melanistic eastern garter snake I never seen,in my mind!!!
My goal was to breed her with a melanistic male from a well known population,just to see the result of that match !2 possibilities I think.
1: Het and melanistic baby or 2
ouble hets baby- regular ...
Now she is in my freezer .
Sorry for my bad english...