Hello from Oregon

[AlbinoSquiggle]

Hello Everyone!

My name is Jake. I have lived near Eugene, Or my entire life.
I have always been facinated by all the little critters that inhabit the world with us.
Only within the last 6 months or so have I become even more interested in snakes particularly because of a discovery I had made in my garden... A little albino garter!
At first I thought it was a male so I named it Gary Garter. I did some online reading and I kept him for about a week then put him back in my garden.
After spotting him several more times, I decided to keep him as he might make an easy target for some other critter.
Curious of the group he would belong to and how to sex him properly, I began more online searching. After coming across this forums Sexing post, I believe Gary is actually a female. So that said I still have been calling her Gary for lack of imagination on my part for names. :P
When I first found Gary I caught many other garters (30+) from our rock pile and kept the 3 that were most unique. Many of the others looked like they were from the same litter, almost identical patterns on almost all of them and all similar sized.
I believe all 3 that I kept are female. The one that is darker colored with the yellow stripe has already escaped (I have since gotten a locking screen top) and I found her outside!! The red colored one loves to climb branches and hangout at the top of the tank. In the spring I will attempt to find a couple males similar to Gary and maybe breed her.
My goal is to keep her genetics going and so far I have found a lot of great information on these forums!

See ya all around!

[Invisible Snake]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

The normal colored garter looks like a T. radix to me, but they don't range in Oregon? Steve enlighten me

[Stefan-A]

Welcome aboard.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Nice snakes btw

[ProXimuS]

Hello and welcome(officially!)

I would say vagrans for the first and last, but I would say pickeringii for the middle...

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Welcome to the forum
The fist snake looks like ordinoides. Second looks like e.vegrans

[AlbinoSquiggle]

Thanks for the 'Welcomes".
This may sound like a stupid question but what does it mean when people say they have 0.1 or 1.2 etc snakes? Is it genetical or generational labeling? I wasn't able to find anything about it in the search.

[guidofatherof5]

If 2.1.5 is listed it means:
2 males
1 female
5 unknown/unsexed

List males first, females second and unknowns last

[Stefan-A]

List males first, females second and unknowns last

Always in that order and the number of males and females are always listed, even when there are none confirmed.

[guidofatherof5]

Always in that order and the number of males and females are always listed, even when there are none confirmed.

Good point to bring up. 0.0.5