baby-plains pics

[Snake lover 3-25]

lol what about the BIG one!!!???

[Anthon]

Ok so now she's about 80cm long and she weights 110 grams I'm getting a male radix in September, do I dare to put it into same terrarium immediatly (well, after quarantine) now when I know there's no parasites in my reptiles or is the female too small for getting babies?

[crzy_kevo]

very nice radix i want to get one of them some day

[Stefan-A]

Ok so now she's about 80cm long and she weights 110 grams I'm getting a male radix in September, do I dare to put it into same terrarium immediatly (well, after quarantine) now when I know there's no parasites in my reptiles or is the female too small for getting babies?

I wouldn't put them together. At 80cm, the female is big enough alright, but the male may just be a little on the small side.

[Anthon]

Are you sure, because the male I'll get is -07 too?

[Stefan-A]

Okay, then it shouldn't be a problem.

[Anthon]

yay by the way when the parents are 100% het axanthic and 100% het red albino then what would the babies be? Possible hets but how and what per cent?

[Anthon]

Ok so all of them would be 25% poss.het. red albino, 25% poss. het axanthic?

I still have a question about housing them together. So i's ok to put them together afer a quarantine? Even though it's still an evening? Do their biological clocks know i's not the breeding time yet (even though they didn't hibernate last winter) - so my female won't get gravid and when it's time to hibernate, she would be having babies in her stomach and I wouldn't know that?

And oh. I've heard that at least with most of the banded/florida water snakes (nerodia fasciata ssp.) they often breed succesfully when their lights and warms are off for the winter, without cooling period you know. Would this work with (plains) garters, too?

[Stefan-A]

I won't comment on genetics questions.

It should be okay to introduce them after the quarantine period. If you want be sure about them not breeding until it's "breeding time", don't introduce them until it is. Keep them separated until the brumation is over.

According to what I've read, it can work. There's an article (by Johanna Raulio) in an old Herpetomania, in which it is mentioned that in addition to turning off the lights and shutting off the heat, you should also cover the front of the enclosure with a blanket or something similar. You can get a copy of the article from the library of The Herpetological Society of Finland.

[Anthon]

OK

By the way how long should the quarantine be, or is it even necessary, when the snake is coming from Thmnophis-Zucht so I'm 99,9% sure there's no problems?