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Okay. So, this person is offering me this type of snake which I've never heard of for one of my fish tanks and I am wandering if they are extremely aggressive. I dont know anything about them except they are really pretty. Any advise. I am a newbie and dont want anything thats mean. Any and all info about this california gater snake would be much appriecated.

you provided pics of 2 different types of garter snakes.

looks like the top pic is a red sided garter and the bottom pic is a san francisco garter (very very rare and endangered).

garters really arent aggressive but can be a little nippy and can be more high strung (wiggly) than things like kings and corns.

I wouldn't put one in a fish tank though. the garter would eat all of your fish and they need dry land and place to bask like most other snakes.

now if you had a huge cage with maybe 75% of it dry and a small pool on one side for the garter to swim, that would be nice.

There's something like 25 different locality based california garters, some worth much much more than others.

Here's a link: www.californiaherps.com/identification/snakesid/gartersnakes.id.html

And following that, their specific care, while similar, might be different enough that it'll warrant exact identification.