New Wild Caught Red Radix...Smokin!!!

[Jeff B]

9/24/10 Talk about a lucky find!!! I have been walking at lunch around a walking/biking trail lately to help get back in shape and the other day I found a ringneck smashed by a bike on the trail. The trail cuts through a rolling hill area with wild tall grass prairie, with small creeks in the valleys, perfect garter habitat. Today I was walking on the trail and I saw a snake on the trail and I figured it was probably a garter killed by a bike, but as I got closer it started to move so I ran up and caught it, thinking I would have a look at it and then let it go, but once I had it in my hands I realized how gorgeous it was and could not believe it, I was stunned. I had heard there was a wild population of red radix in the area, but in the 42 yrs that I have lived in the area I have never seen one by where I live, but apparently they live right by where I work. Additionally this snake is a female, not sure who I will breed her to this spring but it will either be the blue axanthic or the iowa albino, or possibly the wild caught nebraska albino. She has a really orange dorsal stripe and redish brown background color. What an amazing find!!!

[guidofatherof5]

Beautiful snake, Lucky.

[infernalis]

Congrats!

[prattypus]

You're right, she is a stunner!!

[kibakiba]

Wow she sure is pretty!

[guidofatherof5]

From the looks of those colors I would say she just "Peachy"

[Spankenstyne]

Good grief that's beautiful

[Jeff B]

Thanks all, pretty stoked indeed about finding this gal. I catch and release, or see dozens of garters every year and I have never seen one this gorgeous. I'm giving her a POM treatment and when she feeds I will de-worm her, and if all goes well she will be clean as a whistle and fat going in to brumation and come out in the spring ready to make some pretty babies. I am definately going to be walking every day at lunch from now till snow, I just got new motivation to exercise at lunch consistantly. I run and lift weights in the evenings but walking 3 miles everyday at lunch helps a lot and it's good to enjoy the weather right now too, and if I see some garters...well that's just icing on the cake.

[Snakers]

Wow!

[Jeff B]

She kinda reminds me of pictures of Scotts red hypo he used to make the hybino, would like to here what Scott thinks