After I finish my turtle pond I'm going to have a very large (100-ish gallon)tank...it's like 5'x2'x2 or something. I'm hoping to do a naturalish display with snakes in it. I've got a short list; Florida kingsnake, Everglades ratsnake, Neroida, or garters.
I was wondering about setting up a divided tank (if I go the garter route), with about 1/4th the area being water, probably a foot deep with a submerged filter. I just don't know about doing a tank with multiple garters, which is what I'd prefer. I'd prefer a larger subspecies as well. But I haven't ever done garters seriously--just a couple Thamnophis I've caught over the years. So I'm sort of at sea on good species to try if I go this route. Something largish, and are garters safe to keep together? I know Lampropeltis aren't nor are Pits or Elaphe.

My vision is sort of having the front right corner area being water, with a good bioactive substrate, and I'll try for some ground cover (we've got something that grows in the yard I think would work), coupled with some stone to maybe replicate the stone wall where I found my first garter.
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.1 corn snake
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