That really depends on availability to your local petstore. A chain king or yellow rat can be comfortably kept in a 55gl aquarium as adults (which in my part of the country goes for about $100. At that; a king up to 3' is comfortable in a ten. The big (and I mean Big plus is that larger snakes like these are often easier for a "newbe" to keep. Besides that Garter's average 4' for the females as adults, so they are not that small either, and to my experience 50-50 on being nice or nippy.

Frank
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