@ aSnakeLovinBabe: Yup. That's one of the things I absolutely adore about garters, and it's what got me hooked on concinnus.

@ charles: I mainly bred my concinnus for the experience. I had no intention of selling them at the time. Still, when I ended up with so many yearlings, I searched for interested parties. I could find NONE at the time. I had never found anyone who had the slightest interest in concinnus, and I couldn't find anyone who owned them until I joined this forum recently.

Just as well. All healthy yearlings were released in the same area where I got the mother. All 170 of them! (from 6 or 8 broods over 2 decades) Knowing they were bound for release, I didn't go easy on them, and lost some during their first brumation, but I wanted any that remained, to be fit for the wild. I'd like to think that some survived to adults and offset the loss from the wild, the pair that I took and kept for all those years.