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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• What's a good first snake? - ciscobird, Thu Jan 15 07:12:41 2004
• RE: What's a good first snake? - herpsaremylife, Fri Jan 16 13:29:53 2004
• RE: What's a good first snake? - DeanAlessandrini, Fri Jan 16 22:52:40 2004
• RE: What's a good first snake? - Langi, Sat Jan 17 10:04:05 2004
• RE: What's a good first snake? - rearfang, Sat Jan 17 10:21:24 2004
• I agree with rearfang, corns are nice........ - smokeysshadow, Sat Jan 17 14:34:37 2004
• These are fun too...... - smokeysshadow, Sat Jan 17 14:36:56 2004
• yeah, but with those... - herpsaremylife, Sun Jan 18 02:09:18 2004
• RE: yeah, but with those... - rearfang, Sun Jan 18 11:16:19 2004
• RE: What's a good first snake? - jwalters, Fri Jan 30 16:12:49 2004