How did u guys get started in garters?

[Starling96]

Garters are my 3rd snake to keep so im a rookie compared to a lot of you
and dont worry about high jacking
i was getting interested lol

[RedSidedSPR]

What's your first 2 favorites?

[Starling96]

first a corn then a ball

[RedSidedSPR]

Oh sorry, i thought you said "garters are your 3rd favorite" lol, oops!

[kibakiba]

I've always loved garter snakes, when my dad's workers were over, they'd catch a ton of garter snakes and hand them to me. I think we had a couple fitchii when it was less barren here... I remember one of the snakes most caught looked nothing like a NW. It had little bits of red below the stripe, black background and yellowy stripes. They're so beautiful. Anyways, 3 years ago, I was helping my mom move a really old ripped up recliner over to my dads burn pile and I saw something orange and black zip under it. I made my mom tip it over, and there was 2 year old little Snakey curled up and terrified. I loved him from day one.

[katach]

I've played with bugs, frogs, and snakes since I could walk. I kept lizards and fish as a kid. My mom couldn't do mice as food either. They have always had my heart!

[Starling96]

I've played with bugs, frogs, and snakes since I could walk. I kept lizards and fish as a kid. My mom couldn't do mice as food either. They have always had my heart!

Same here!
My first lizard was an iguana
He lived like 9 years :/
And i had a guppy tank and they multiplied... fast!
and keep an occasional skink lol

[Cfleming]

I used to catch them when I was a little kid. When I was able to keep snakes, I started with ball pythons. They bored me, so I moved on to many other species. Finally after many years of over looking garters, I was replying to a thread similar to this one and it brought back a lot of fond memories of playing with them. So I gota group of babies from Scott. Now garters make-up most of my collection. I also keep Amazon tree boas, massasauga rattles snakes, copperheads, and a red belly watersnake.

[Starling96]

Red belly water snake?
Where are they native to?
And i love amazon's!!!

[guidofatherof5]

I found this range map in my "Long Star Field Guide Snakes of North America(Eastern and Central Regions)"