My First Garter!

[Fr0st3d F1ak3s]

Hello, first time poster, I just got my first garter today, he is wild caught, and because he is my first garter, I was wondering what species he is, His/Her gender, and any tips on caring for Him/Her, as I have next to no experience keeping garters. Also on a side note He/Her seems to really like being handled, as well as eating earthworms in front of me.

[Qwerty3159]

Where are you from? My guess is a radix (Plains garter snake)
This site has one of the best garter caresheets around.
Garter Snake Forum - Garter Caresheet (http://www.thamnophis.com/index.php?page=caresheet)

[BUSHSNAKE]

Location helps when you want an id of species, theres 20+
Looks like a northwestern in the picture you posted. Thats my guess

[Fr0st3d F1ak3s]

Hi, I forgot to mention, I'm from Vancouver Island Canada, if that helps identify the species.

[BUSHSNAKE]

Yes that does help. Thats puts you in the range of the northwestern garter(Thamnophis ordinoides)
The other garter species in that range are pickeringii and maybe fitchi...not 100% on that so i could be wrong.
But do your research

[gartergabe]

That’s 100% northwesters garter snake also looks like it might have parasites are those bumps on the sides of the snake or do they look like battle scars