New wild caught snake. Lots of questions.

[tstill14]

Okay, so I live in Oregon near Portland and I was out with some friends at a park when a really cool snake, a garter snake we all thought poped up in the forest right next to us and we caught it. It's about a foot or so maybe a few inches longer, and is slender. It also has a single solid orange stripe down the middle of its back, and is dark brown with black spots in a line to the left and right of the orange stripe on the sides of the snake. Also the bottom half of the snake is a lighter brown color then the top half. Im sure it would be hard to know what it is just from a discription so i attached a pic below. Any info would be great. thanks.

So my questions are,

Does any one know what kind of snake it is?

what do i feed it and how offten?

what kind of heat source does it need?

how big will it get?

basicly every thing to keep the little guy or girl happy and alive.

[tstill14]

I stumbled accrost this snake out at one of my local parks with a friend and my girl friend. its about a foot long maybe a little longer. its got an orange stripe down its back and the rest of the snake is darker brown with a line of black spots on both sides of the snake. Also the bottom part of the snake is a lighter color brown then the top half. I took a picture hopfully some one can tell me what it is.


Ontop of not knowing what type of snake it is, this is my first snake and I would like to know the the answers to the fallowing questions.

what kind of snake is it?

What should i feed it? and how offen?

what kind of heat source is recomended?

How big will it get?

and will it ever be able to eat mice even if i give it baby mice?

any help would be nice, thanks

[New Mutant]

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that's a garter snake. You should probably feed it 2-3 times a week. There's a good care sheet in the "Articles" section of the site.

[infernalis]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/husb...tml#post143274

[mustang]

get the hothands thing out of the cage it has some nasty chemicals in it (and yes they can leak) cool snake

[Snakers]

ordinaries

[ConcinusMan]

ordinaries

LoL

...ordinoides

[Mommy2many]

Welcome and good luck!

[HazAnga]

they don't eat crickets either. usually a undertank heater is recommended or a heat light, preferably the undertank heater since they need heat under the belly to digest their food. proper bedding should be used, like reptibark or a cypress multch (usually gotten at a local pet store) They will get around 2-3' long and normally eat cut up worm, guppies and yes, mice. Different size mice, there is pinkie, fuzzie, hopper and regular size mice. It looks to be around the fuzzie feeding stage.

[Stefan-A]

T. ordinoides. Worms and slugs a couple of times a week. Fish and pinkies if you can get it to eat them. The rest of the caresheet applies to this one as well as it does to the other garters.

Garter Snake Care Sheet - Caresheets