So, I'm sitting here watching my snakes "interact". I started to wonder if those of you who have kept garters for a long time, have noticed anything that would indicate that cohabitating snakes from an early age would have had any sort of effect on how calm they are? Both when you try to handle them and when they interact with other snakes.

I noticed that the tetrataenia I have, which has been housed alone until recently, seemed intimidated by the vagrans it is housed with. The two vagrans will let other snakes crawl over them without reacting in any way, but the tetrataenia seems to deliberately get out of the way when a vagrans approaches and runs if anything at all touches it.

Or is it just a "tetra thing" or "vagrans thing"? I know I asked once before if there's a possibility that the tetrataenias would identify wandering garters as a potential threat.