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#1521170
Reptililian Boy
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What is my Garter Snake? 
I will try and describe it, but it was only listed as a Canadian Garter Snake. I went to Petco (which is a bad choice for reptiles) and thought it would be nice to care for one of their snakes and all is well. I just want to know what the heck it is so I’ll explain it’s behavior and coloring. If you were to look at him slithering on the ground, the belly is offwhite then a mixture of green,black,offwhite scales, then a lighter offwhite, then a mixture of green and black scales, then finally a light green/whitishline down it’s back. It eats fish, but it doesn’t eat anything else like earthworms or superworms. Petco claims it lives 15 years+ and it gows betwwen 2-5 ft. long, but who knows. It’s from a breeder that only sells the babies to them. Any additional info would help me take care of my snake.
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11/20/07 05:01pm
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#1521225
Animalover96
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1521170
 What is my Garter Snake?
I just got one from petco i looked it up and everybody says it is a indonesian garter snake go down about 20 threads it is the one that says is there canadian carter snake the last picture is a indonesian garter snake
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11/20/07 05:45pm
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#1521309
Reptililian Boy
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Message To: Animalover96 In reference to Message Id: 1521225
What is my Garter Snake?
That’s not what my Garter snake looks like though. A Queen’s snake? No. It looks more like a Butlers or Northwestern I think, but still much different.
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11/20/07 06:50pm
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#1521323
Reptililian Boy
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1521309
What is my Garter Snake?
smiley!! I looked up garter snakes and there it was! It looks a lot like a Plains Garter Snake. Most of the pictures look exactly like him. I went to google images and looked at some pictures and he must be a subspecies or something. Thanks anyway.
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11/20/07 07:01pm
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#1522537
TIMSNAKR
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1521323
What is my Garter Snake?
At least the petco people haven’t screwed up even more this time by saying it was a Canadian garter but it was a snake from the other side of the world that isn’t even an actual garter snake! Plains garters are found in some of western Canada but they are definitely not called Canadian garter snakes. Those petco people really piss me off  .
Tim
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11/21/07 09:28pm
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#1523556
Reptililian Boy
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Message To: TIMSNAKR In reference to Message Id: 1522537
What is my Garter Snake?
My local Petco sells Chinese Water Dragons and they call them Chinese Dragons...what a lazy typer. I almost want to work there to help the animals, but it’s a crappy job.
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11/23/07 12:01am
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#1523875
Inferno14
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1523556
What is my Garter Snake?
dude, i got my garter from petco and it too was listed as a canadian garter snake, but it’s actually a red sided garter. is yours black and yellow with like, red spots on the sides of it’s body?
-inferno
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11/23/07 01:28pm
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#1525921
Reptililian Boy
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Message To: Inferno14 In reference to Message Id: 1523875
What is my Garter Snake?
No red at all. I caought a red sided garter so no it doesn’t look like that. Look up Plains Garter Snake on google images and most of those are whta mine looks like.
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11/25/07 02:28pm
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#1526275
Inferno14
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1525921
What is my Garter Snake?
weird, does it look anything like this? it’s my red sided. some reds don’t have much red, but seeing the plains garter has made me think twice.... hmmmmm.....
how about this? same dude, it’s blazer, one of my garters,
hope i helped @ all
inferno
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11/25/07 07:35pm
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#1537638
Reptililian Boy
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Message To: Inferno14 In reference to Message Id: 1526275
What is my Garter Snake?
Sorry for the VERY late post, but my garter still is a juvi with incomplete colors right now. He is forming those stripes on his lower jaw. Like a Plains Garter
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12/06/07 01:03pm
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#1538707
Reptililian Boy
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1537638
What is my Garter Snake?
Is it bad if I see some skin rubbed up in front of in eyes by his nose? He is about 2 1/2 feet long in a 30 gallon tank. And proper equipment.
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12/07/07 01:23pm
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#1538845
M4tt
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Message To: Reptililian Boy In reference to Message Id: 1538707
What is my Garter Snake?
It sounds like he is shedding. They start the shedding process by rubbing the skin the tip of their nose and work it off from there.
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12/07/07 04:23pm
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#1538856
Reptililian Boy
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Message To: M4tt In reference to Message Id: 1538845
What is my Garter Snake?
Well it’s by his nostrils and it is constantly like that. I see him flipping out when I feed him, handle him, or just walk by him to my lizards!
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12/07/07 04:33pm
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