Garter habitat pics.

[ConcinusMan]

Well I don't know about checkereds but you definitely don't want to try to replicate the habitat of pugets or concinnus' that's for sure. Not unless you plan on making an enclosure bigger than a modest house and spending thousands of dollars. Their habitats are very wet.



Still, I do use some wood pieces and plenty of plastic greenery, and of course, a rather large water basin. Bottom tank is for adults (55 gallon long) and also some babies in the middle tank.(20 gal)



Obviously, trying to build a wetland in this would be a bad idea unless you plan on keeping just tropical amphibians.



And as far the checkered habitat pictures go, in CA they live in the desert around waterways. You can't really go by that being how they live a wide variety of habitats throughout their range. From desert waterways to dry forest clearings, to grasslands. They tend to NOT live in very wet climates but also they're rarely found far from water. Same goes for pugets and concinnus. Always in wetlands, swampy places with plenty of amphibians, ponds, river areas, etc. but they only live west of the mountains where we get 30-50 inches of rain. East of the mountains is desert where they get less than 10 inches and you won't find them there. But you will find fitchi there, and always around water. So, basically the same kind of habitat, but a different climate.