WE BRED A NEW MORPH OF GARTER SNAKE!! 

You mean to tell me snake discovery... Made a snake discovery?

I'm the Emily they're talking about! :) Thank you Ed and Emily for how well you've cared for these amazing beauties I was so lucky to discover. They couldn't have had a better chance to breed and excel than with you guys. May those two absolutely beautiful Viridian Line golden garters have many more "clutters"!!!

Emily: "We're going to have to tear apart this enclosure." Ed: "That's not going to be fun." Emiliy: "It's going to be awesome!"

It makes me so happy to see my childhood RU-vidrs go from little care guides and reptile videos in the kitchen and reptile room, to buying the facility and the building updates, to opening the zoo, to discovering and successfully breeding a brand new morph❤

The intro of her just going " OMGGG- YOU HAD BABBIEESSS" and just snatching the baby snake has me rolling lmao

I missed Garter Snake baby videos, seeing a new video of baby garters makes me happy.

It's interesting that they were found in the same area. That suggests that either the locality allowed the genetic trait to be advantageous enough for it to show up in more than one snake, OR that they were immediately related to each other (ex. clutter-mates). You should hold a couple back to try to outcross them to wild-type Plains Garter Snakes or albino Plains and sus out whether it's dominant or recessive over the others or has any interesting codominances.

You should get a dna test done to check if it's a family pair. If they're rare morph highly unlikely that two unrelated pair would be found so close to each other unless the golden color lends itself to blending in in the area where they were found.

I found a BLUE garter up in Green Bay! Unheard of. I told everyone and no one cared, but I found a bunch of babies too! I wish they would take it seriously. New garter morphs, especially in the wild, are so important!

i would have called it a Gilded Morph, because some snakes have morphs specifit to the breeds, so it would help with any confusion, and still keep the gold part

Of all creator ads, yours is my favorite, it's so silly and informative at the same time, I don't find myself bored, walking away, or potentially skipping it... It's like part of the video content!

Can we call that baby Cotton Eye Joe because of all the "where did you come from? Where did you go" that was said from trying to find him 😂

The sudden long inhale *realization gasp* when trying to introduce the snake was so funny. (x

Calling them Golden Plains is just so pretty and fitting, I don't think there's a better name for them. Congrats on the new morph!!!

Emily is like a 6 year old on Christmas in this video lol :D You can't help but smile at the excitement.

My son suggests calling the morph Brass. We both love to play Dungeons and Dragons and brass dragons like dry, hot areas like savannahs and plains (and deserts). Also when brass tarnishes it can be blue, green or brown. So it fits for the blue bellies of the adults. "Brass dragons crave sunlight and dry heat, so naturally they prefer deserts, arid savannahs, and similar areas. They spend hours lying on sunning rocks high above the desert floor."

Emily: "I don't know if you can tell how excited I am!" Emily, we can tell how excited you are EVERY time there are new babies. This is no exception. 😂

I need bloopers for their store ad, including Ed’s face while he’s throwing stuff 😂

I love how the first baby is so chill at the beginning and the parents are absolutely spazing out

The yellow stripes remind me of how everyone used to draw sun's in the corner of the page, they look like they've got little sun stripes

Every time that first bit about the warehouse being stocked shows up, I just watch it through because the aggressive throw of SD Merch and Emily felling like a tree just makes me giggle 😆 Glad to see the garter snakes back!

The pattern of these garter snakes look like those friendship bracelets that were so popular to make back in the 90s. They are beautiful!

Good on you for giving naming rights to the person who found them- Virdian Goldens is an awesome name. What incredible luck!

I think I would name this morph the gold dust morph, they look like they got covered in golden dust. Would love to see some future videos of the babies growing up, but also see you guys test if these are recessive, dominant, or co-dominant by breeding them out to some of the other plains garter morphs or even just normals to strengthen their bloodlines.

Personally, I would have named the morph 'houndstooth," because the scale patterns look kinda like houndstooth fabric! They're beautiful babies, either way!

Don's Garter Snakes has a FB post with Golden Plains garters as well (from a female wild caught in Montana; he posted several males in January born last summer)

You should do genetic testing and see if they are brother and sister since they came from the same area.

Love the video especially the baby videos. So cute. At 14:06 another baby comes out on the log near Emily's hand, looks at her and then crawls up a different log and disappears. lol

I found this video cause we just caught one in our yard and someone in a snake group told us about yours. We are in Iowa. Looks just like yours!

Sounds like you are in contact with Don's Garter Snakes out of Utah with the ones he got from the female in Montana. Really cool to see that you are in contact with him. Hopefully you can get some genetic testing done to see if its the same heritage or just the same mutation occurring twice!

Its been so long since we've seen garters. These are probably my favourite snakes of yours. Very happy to see them again

Hi Snake Discovery! My auntie has been watching your channel for ages, and she’s a big fan. It’s her birthday, can you please just comment on this comment saying “Happy birthday Beth”? :)

Emily's excitement over these babies is so contagious, and I love how Ed is keeping her in line like "hey we should probably do this before we do that" and shes like "okay! :D"

You should try crossing it with other morphs to see how it mixes with other genetics! Im interested to see how it reacts to other morphs! An idea for a name for the morph could be Trinket! Since trinkets can be golden.. lmao

Congratulation on the Golden Garders!! (You should totally give them a special name relating to snake discovery)

I love how the baby sheen on the golden color makes them look almost metallic! What a cool new morph!!

0:08 I like how she says that’s just a tail of one when it’s a baby 😂

Honestly I think your marriage is so special. You have the same goals and aspirations and that's awesome

Why are these new garter snakes so Smol is adorable

Garters come in tons of colors naturally. There is an entire species that looks like where I live. So for anyone wondering, chances are your local garter snake population is going to have a unique color and pattern variant seen nowhere else or be incredibly generic looking It never seems to be anything between those two. Without knowing what species you're dealing with you're especially not going to know what kind of genetics you're dealing with(always double check your species when you have a weird looking morph because people do get other species for pets and then release them and cause localized anomalies). Usually it doesn't end up being a morph but rather being polygenic so I guess congrats on the morph if it really is one but I would want to see out crosses before I got too excited about something like this in garter snakes specifically given how much natural variation they have. Personally I think they look like they have tire treads for their pattern instead of the typical checker so you could call them tire tread goldens, lol. Oh yeah if you want to see other species that look like this just look at any of the ones that live in Sandy or desert areas.

OMG YOU MADE A SNAKE DISCOVERY

A name that came to mind was Golden Braille Morph, because their spots look like braille

I'm in love with the racing stripe down their back. Soo cute.

Garters are my favourite snake and that morph is just stunning! Congratulations Emily, Ed and the person who surrendered the parents to you! ~FM :)

Love the name that was picked. viridian line golden garters is very pretty. This morph is very intreasting not just because it's new but the babys especially look like they would camouflage pretty well in the wild compared to other brightly colored morphs. As babys their patter reminds me of dappled sun light spots though trees and grass! While i love the name i would have probably called them sunshine instead of golden, the shade of yellow they are really reminds me of sunlight.

You should try breeding them to wild-type plains garters to determine if it's a dominant or recessive trait, and to add some genetic diversity to the line you're about to establish.

Ed,”It’s not going to be fun.” Emily, “ This is Awesome!” The contrast reminds me of Branch and Poppy

These babies are so cool! I can't wait to see where this breeding project goes. I was googling around about plains garters and saw someone called Don's Garters that had a similar-looking one, but not from the Wisconsin/MN area. I wonder if this morph had a chance of some genetic diversity once you prove it out? Good luck with the breeding project. This is awesome.

Tape the outside corners of that baby lid, I have a subadult who's squeezed thru even when clipped down! Definitely worth making a trip to original site to see if there's more to expand the gene pool. These two may be related. Probably wouldn't make a video however or folks might get the notion wild caught is ok.

They look like living embroidery! Gorgeous!

I loved how Emily’s brain stopped several times and Ed trying to bring her down to earth

Hey Emily and Ed! I’m getting my first ever snake in 2 days! I fell in love with snakes after I watched your videos! I have watched countless amounts of videos to prepare myself including your videos! You are the whole reason why I’m getting a snake! Thank you so much!

What an exciting event this is... how fun!!! Congratulations, everyone! Spring babies!!! Let's celebrate 🎉!

I can’t believe it! They are very beautiful! I’ve been watching forever and every time you post I immediately click on your video!

So exciting!!! I love garters!!! Their patterning reminds me of the DeKay's!

Emily’s gasp scared the CRAP out of me, I thought there was a 😵 snake 😢❤

These guys are yellow to teal to blue- golden doesn’t quite describe the morph. They are adorable. Love your videos- I think I found a new love for snakes. What a great job this would be to care for these guys. Who doesn’t love babies?

I had a farm 30 years ago and in spring when I planted early spring I always found bany garters in in soil around brush roots, red sided and many more 😊😊

I wonder about the likelihood of the parents being siblings, if they were found in the same area? Or perhaps theres just a population of this morph there

Such fun! would be interesting down the line of course, to outcross both the parents to 'normal' morphs and see what the offspring look like - just to see if there are any cool gene color interactions / co-dominance type things going on. Would also help to test if the morph is full recessive, or dominant, or just odd. Congratulations none the less - those are 10 lucky babies!

You are sooooo lucky you braed a new spiches!!!!! Wow!!😮❤

I would call them Golden Lace Plains Garters because with the speckling it looks like a lace pattern. so pretty, I'm so happy for you guys!

8:52 Ah, that explains it! At the start of the video I looked up golden garter snakes, and was able to find some garters similar to them, so I was confused why you were so excited, but if they're the first plains golden, that's awesome!

Congrats to Emily, Emily and Ed on the discovery of Viridian Line Plains Garter Snakes, also to the person who caught the two males. It’s beautiful!

I love when the small RU-vidr becomes there own sponser

I love Emily’s enthusiasm 😍😍

Your excitement is contagious!! Congrats you guys!!!

I would have named it the "sunshine," "sunbeam," or just "sun" or "sunny" morph! Their body looks like dappled sunshine, the stripe down their back looks like a sunbeam, and even the bluish tummy is reminiscent of a sunny day ☀️✨️

Snake discovery is growing because of this invention!🐍

I love garter snakes! These ones are so beautiful

I love garters! So happy for you. And I also love the ad. I always watch it threw because of how funny you made it, I love how your animals are the helpers. Its so cute 🥰

✨under 1 hour clubbbb I'm so excited for this!! They're STUNNING

Such progress guys! I’ve been watching for years I’m so happy.

the excitement is great, what a success!! You can teach DNA with these babies!

I dont want to be a downer but it has to be said, you'll need to outcross with a normal to actually test if it's a true genetic trait or if it's more of a locale that can be line bred since breeding two same looking adults is essentially just line breeding. The true test is if you have one golden and one normal bred together, if you do that and get half goldens or all normals then you will know it's likely genetic (all normal would indicate its recessive l, which you can then breed back to create goldens if it is a true morph). If you get just duller yellows by outcrossing with normals it's likely to be just a locale/line bred colouration. I'm very excited for this revelation but it really needs more testing before it's a confirmed genetic morph, and even if it isn't a morph it's still a cool colouration Edit for clarity in my terminology: when I refer to "genetic trait" I am referring to a single genetic mutation that is commonly known as a morph (its usually caused by a single genetic mutation, which can then be combined with other morphs to have different effects on colour and pattern) rather than the natural variation in colours between individuals and locations (which is also technically caused by genetics but is much more complicated and subjective in its nature since it is more like a sliding scale than the simpler and more binary morph vs wild type which can be proven out)

I CANT THE INTRO- THE WAY ED THROWS THE MERCH AT EMILY AND SHE FALLS 😂😂 " Jerry are you slacking off again? Whats with you and mukbang videos " 😂😂

I would have called them "Golden Discovery" but 'Viridian Line golden garters' sounds very estatic and fits very well ☺

The jolliest couple south of the North Pole. I just love how sweet you two are to each other.

first time im ever early, the baby garter snakes are always so cute and smoolllllllll🥰😍

Such an awesome discovery. You guys should totally come up with a custom name for this morph.❤️❤️❤️❤️ Maybe something like sol (sun) or El Dorado morph.

Personally, I like Golden Garter. Simple, clean, gets the point across. You know, its funny, when I was watching the Breeding Pair video, I was thinking how we haven't seen anything on Garter Snakes in a while. Then you talked about them at the very end...and now this video. Yay!

It's so cool that, that lady discovered them!

Adorable golden danger noodle babies love your vids get excited every time you upload

Aww that’s so exiting garter snakes are so cute

the murch being thrown at Emily made me laugh so hard. i think it was the small scream. X'D

Garter snakes come in so many beautiful morphs, patterns, and colors. Such under rated snakes.

Congrats!

jerry is so silly he's just like my lizard today she was sitting down with one of my guinea pigs and then she put one of her hands on the guinea pig and tried to eat her she is such a silly billy

Imagine the person who found them calls them the "Golden Emily" morph

He is so cute and they are so lucky 🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍😍🤩

I was struck by how similar these baby graders looked to Emily's golden snake ring. Golden Garder for the win.

I’ve missed the garter videos 💜💜

Ok hold up, after getting a better look at these I had myself a flashback when I was a kid I saw a garter just like those in the Wild except it was a much more mossy green color than the gold. Didn’t know what morphs were at the time as I was like 7 and just thought it was a slightly different color, wonder if it was a morph or just a weird garter

OMG so cute! i love that they have a houndstooth like pattern on top of the golden colors

I love your videos also whenever like I’m sad. I watch your videos and they help me cheer up. I like snakes a lot. They’re not my favorite animal well though, but they’re like my third third favorite.❤

I just love how happy she is ❤😂

After all the years.. a true.. snake discovery 😂

Your excitement always makes me smile, love you Emily!!!!

These are absolutely gorgeous! I've never seen anything like that pattern. So many babies! And side note, I think Ed had WAY too much fun launching one of everything from the warehouse at Emily XD

I think we need an update on these guys!