baby-plains pics

[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?

[Stefan-A]

I'd recommend it, just in case. I wouldn't want to speculate on how long is long enough, you might want to search the forum.

[Stefan-A]

Aren't you getting more radix?

[Anthon]

Oh, well.. Well after that

... But at least they're pure and sure radix

[Stefan-A]

True. It's an important first step, too.

[Anthon]

By the way, a friend of mine has just bought a pair of albino marcianus, so maybe we're getting those beauties within a few years

[Stefan-A]

Freya? Too bad they're albino, I could consider getting normal ones. But I guess the public wants the most unnatural-looking morphs that can be produced.