What can you get at Petsmart for Garter snakes

[mustang]

For an enclosure, I highly recommend getting as large a one as possible.

Mine is a 106qt. (26 gal) clear plastic tub with locking lid. I installed a screen in the top using nylon screen and wood trim, bolted into place. I also put foam insulating stripping around the edge to fill in any possible escape routes.

For hides, here's what I did: small flower pot, with a hole broken at the top rim, inverted. I also covered the bottom with coconut fiber, which makes it look like a cute little thatch-roof cottage. The only drawback: this big beefy-armed dragon keeps trying to burninate it.

Also, I highly recommend bamboo tubes. My snakes love those things.

dude alexia is a kid (like me) which means no mucho denaro and no grande enclosure becaude of $$

[Didymus20X6]

That's why I recommend this. I paid $12 for that tub, like $1.50 for that flower pot, and got the bamboo for free from a neighbor who was throwing it out. The screen construction probably cost about $1 for the wood, and about $2 for nuts, bolts, and washers. The screen cost about $8, but I only needed a tiny bit, and have plenty left over for other projects. You could probably get something similar for not a lot of money.

I am, in fact, working on expanding that enclosure with a water section. $4.50 for another clear plastic tub. Another $3 for screen supplies, and about $6 for plumbing supplies (to connect the two). This new enclosure will be connected to the first via tunnel, and will have mostly rocks, water, and a single thatch-roof cottage.

[mustang]

That's why I recommend this. I paid $12 for that tub, like $1.50 for that flower pot, and got the bamboo for free from a neighbor who was throwing it out. The screen construction probably cost about $1 for the wood, and about $2 for nuts, bolts, and washers. The screen cost about $8, but I only needed a tiny bit, and have plenty left over for other projects. You could probably get something similar for not a lot of money.

ya but a big enclosure can cost from 150 - 1000s of $$

[Didymus20X6]

Which is why I recommended this instead.

You could get a 10gal glass enclosure at Wal-Mart for about $13, or you can get and modify a 26gal clear plastic tub. I spent not $hundreds but $tens. You've seen my enclosure pics, haven't you?

[mustang]

Which is why I recommended this instead.

You could get a 10gal glass enclosure at Wal-Mart for about $13, or you can get and modify a 26gal clear plastic tub. I spent not $hundreds but $tens. You've seen my enclosure pics, haven't you?

o...i think i get it! ....my parents wont let me "modify" anything but urs looks good....but its a little tall and less lengthy....but it may be just the image or bad memory

[Didymus20X6]

This is what my enclosure currently looks like (click the pic for larger image):

[Charis]

I would recommend a Sterlite or RubberMaid tub as well, at least at first if you don't have much money to spend. I have two of my corns in tubs, can't think what gallon they are offhand, but they have a bit more floor space than a 20gal long glass tank & both of them only cost $11, I just drilled small air holes in them. I don't really like how they look, but the idea was that the snakes can stay in them pretty much forever & that gives me plenty of time to find a good used glass tank with the type of lid I want for a good price. To have bought two of the tanks I want new would have cost $140.

[commongartersnake]

Okay.

Now for my question.

Can I see a picture of your lamp(On the tank). I can't tell how it was made.

~AND~

Where do you get the screen and want would it be called. So I don't get the wrong things.

[Didymus20X6]

That's actually an old floor lamp a neighbor was throwing out. I salvaged it. But not long ago, the Wal-Mart where I live was selling the same identical floor lamp for like $5, so I got another for the living room. It's actually two lamps on one stand - what you see in the pic is actually the reading lamp on the side. The top lamp works especially well if you use a 3-way bulb. I've thought about getting yet another one of these, because the salvaged one is rather dilapidated.

The screen I got in the Wal-Mart hardware section. There's different types there, and they come on rolls, but they're all pretty much the same as far as I can tell. I just got what was on sale, and it works great: good ventilation, and keeps the snaky snakes from getting out.

[Charis]

I use a heat mat for mine, like those better than a light for a number of reasons. Your heat source & control is pobably going to be the most expensive thing you'll need to buy. I have on my tubs the Dragons Lair heat mats, you can only get them online at Reptile Supplies, Dog, Cat, Small Pet Supply & Aquarium Products those are one of the few that are recommended for use with plastic. The heat mat itself was only $14 (the last I checked) but shipping is $12 base price. I bought 3 of them which even with shipping made them a little less then at the local petstore. Then I have a rheostat from Home Depot for $11. You could use a regular heat mat, like what you'd use on yourself if you already have one, until you can afford or find a reptile one if you need to as well. Hope that helps you some, and good luck getting a garter! ;~)