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RE: naturalistic tank for garter snakes?

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Posted by: brhaco at Sun Jun 26 11:49:45 2011  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by brhaco ]  
   

Garter snakes, marcianus in particular, are extremely well suited to naturalistic vivaria. They tend to sit out in the open under the lights, being diurnal for the most part. I would go with the largest tank, in order to allow them to display as much natural behavior as possible.



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