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I just got, what I thought was, a garter snake, but a woman at the pet store where I went to buy food didn't recognize it as a garter snake. I have pics but don't know how to get them on here. I just joined this site to see if someone can help me.
The snake is mostly medium brown on the top part of it's body with a very faint thin kind of an off white stripe down the middle and the underside is pretty much all the off white, kind of cream color. It's a very docile snake, has never tried to bite at all.
If anyone can help me, I can email you a pic. I am also, if you couldn't tell, new to the world of snakes, lol!

I'd appreciate any help whatsoever!

Thanks,

Cyndi

If you click on "photo gallery" up at the top of the page, in the mass of links with the forums, there'll be an option to login and post photos. If you follow those instructions, you can put photos on Kingsnake. Then, when you make a post, there'll be a box at the bottom with the titles of the photos you've uploaded and you can click on them to add them in to your post

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Ok, got the pic on, here she is!
(Thanks Rosycorn!)

It is some kind of gartersnake, probaby a subspecies of Thamnophis sirtalis, but I couldn't tell which from that photo.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

As long as I find out that she is for sure a garter snake, I don't care what variety she is. I was just worried that she might not have been a garter snake, when the reptile lady at RMS Petstore didn't recognize her!

Thanks!

Cyndi

Yeah i'd say garter snake too. someone might tell you its a crayfish snake or a queensnake but the head looks like a garter. plus if it eats goldfish readily that's a good sign too.

She wouldn't eat the goldfish, but she loves frogs and pinkies (sp?)

Can you post another pic??? Kinda blury, but it almost looks like an eastern ribbon snake.
Brian
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Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

Ok here she is.

That picture clearly rules out Ribbonsnake -- the stripe on the side is on the second and third scale rows, a ribbon's stripe would be on the third and fourth. T. sirtalis sp

That's an eastern garter snake

Looks like a Two-striped garter snake, Thamnophis hammondi, to me.
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I'd guess it's a eastern garter (Thamnophis s sirtalis) where is the snake from?
wayne

I live in Northeastern Ohio, and I found her in the woods near where I live. She doesn't have any distinct stripes though. I was thinking she might be a Butler's garter snake, but I saw more pics of them and she doesn't look enough like anything I've seen. I think I have a mutt on my hands. I have gotten very attached to her though, she is a very nice snake!

That's great that she'll eat pinkies for you. Have you tried worms? But not nightcrawlers...

That's an eastern garter...they come in a variety of colors. She isn't a mutt, she is just a lighter color than most...

I was kidding about the "mutt" comment! LOL!

Thanks for all your help everyone!

Cyndi