My first colubrid:-)

+1 great snakes.
To us in the uk garters are a bit more exotic but I guess to you lot they are in ya yards lol... I love their head shapes, we have a similar native called the grass snake over here.

Yours is very beautiful, by the way. He's SO colorful...I'll let you know if I think of any uni-names.

Thanks... I'm leaning "shiver" atm, what you think?

That works & it's unique (I like it)...and he won't care (or hear it) either way...;)

Very cool new addition. I had a wild caught garter snake for a while. My brother brought him to me in a bucket back when he did landscaping work, found him in a mulch pile. The customer did not want the snake around. I kept him until it warmed up and then turned him loose. I fed a mix of feeder fish and earthworms. He was a fantastic eater, adjusted to his temporary captivity well, and went back into the wild well fed for spring.

That's cool. They are awesome little feeders, he ate as soon as he was home... It's the throwing the piece of fish out his bowl that done me lol.... Never seen a snake move something with his mouth before.
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2018-10-28_07-31-08 by Justin Phillips - Flickr2BBcode LITE

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Eating fish 10min after entering his new home, love this little dude lol...:-)

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Fits in well...