Not, a python but still sorta cool

I just found a garter snake sliding through my backyard so I decided to pick him up and keep him for little while. I put some peat/soil in a 3 gallon tank and right away he burrowed! it was sorta cool. Just thought I might share this weird info.....well not the weird of info but yea...Ill get some pics up

i wanted a garter or ribbon for awile ....they are pretty cool

Yea, They are but the funniest thing is that he tried biting me lol I just thought that was funny too because he was just sitting there with his mouth open nipping at me. He seems sorta confused right now I think he thinks he can go through the glass.
Well tomorrow I am gonig to pick him up a couple pinhead crickets. They are spose to eat mice when they are bigger......but this guy couldn't even swallow a pinkie. I cant wait to see a garter snake take down a pinkie.

yeah they are pretty hilarious, they think they are all bad and tough,I saw a guy at petco tryin to take one out and he was (the snake) freakin out biting,squirming and all that kinda crazy stuff he thought he could actually do some damage to ya!

Well, if your worried about feeding listen to this. I went to the petstore today and I was looking at the snakes. There were small corns in there about big and wide as a pencil. I asked what they eat and he said the eat those small pinky mice. So hopefully this helps.

Garters/ribbon snkes are the easiest things to feed imo, even wc ones. Why does everyone try with pinkies? Minnows and earthworms are much easier to me at least :)

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Originally Posted by NomadOfTheHills

Garters/ribbon snkes are the easiest things to feed imo, even wc ones. Why does everyone try with pinkies? Minnows and earthworms are much easier to me at least :)

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i concur

you can also try crickets

I'd love to get an albino checkered garter.. those are pretty! As are the red sided ones.

Have fun with the little bugger.

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Originally Posted by Griggs2121

you can also try crickets

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From what I remember catfood (the tinned stuff) works great as well.
They also love frogspawn and go wild over tadpoles/small frogs.

We have garter snakes all over the place here in ohio. i can go out back and pick up 5 in any amount of time. it is illegal to have them in ohio. when we could have them we would feed them earth worms, now that was fun to watch.

garter snake was my first snake when i was about 12. i fed mine a couple of small goldfish and that was the coolest thing i had ever seen. until i watched my python take a live mouse for the first time when i was a few years older :)

Not quite sure how uncommon this is, but I was at my friend's house down the street and I found a checkered garter. I have found them for good amounts on the internet, so I was thinking that they're rare. Am I mistaken?

Checkered garters usually cost about $30.. cheap. They are very common. The albinos are a little more.