I was checking out local reptile stores today and I came across something that puzzles me. It was a small snake labeled as a 'Chinese Water Snake'. It was housed in the type of enclosure I usually see turtles in- large aquarium with an island in the middle taking up around 1/3 to 1/2 the surface area. The snake was basking on its island, and it sure looked like a garter to me- like some of the pretty red sided garters I've seen pictured around here (Checkering w red, not solid red stripes.) Googling Chinese Garter snake turned up no matches, just a venemous critter with little resemblance to the pretty little thing I saw. The fellow at the store didn't know very much about it, other than it was strictly a fish eater. (It had plenty of feeders in its tank.) Could they have a mis-identified fish loving garter of some variety?