2012 Holdback Blue puget garter

[thamneil]

Lots of black! Is that typical of young pickeringii? You better have plans to produce some next year! I'd love to bring a few up.

[ConcinusMan]

Interesting. Looks axanthic or anery.

Lots of black! Is that typical of young pickeringii?

There is no "typical". They're highly variable even within the same population and sometimes even in the same litter. The litters I had this year had babies that vary quite a bit. Just about all of them had yellow stripes, but some had yellow bars, some had red bars, some had pale orange spots, etc. and a single snake in one of those litters had blue bars and stripes.

[twgrosmick]

Interesting. Looks axanthic or anery.

There is no "typical".

I don't think that this is going to be an anery or axanthic.... Like you said, lots of variations with the normals. There really isn't a typical, and if all the babies looked like the one pictured then there is no way they could be an axanthic or anery