Hello, first of all I'll introduce myself. I'm Alejandro from Mexico, and I'm here because I got a garter snake the last week and wanted to ask you some questions and I hope to understand everything and find the correct words. I'll also intriduce all my pets, which are one Anolis equestris, one Barisia imbricata, one Pantherophis guttatus, one green tree frog, one chinese hamster, one trachemys scripta elegans, 2 betta fish, one thamnophis and 3 dogs.
Well, my situation is this one: my cousin had the garter snake, but his father didn't wanted it, so he knows how much I love reptiles and he gave it to me, but without any equipment. Well, even if he had given me the equipment, it was sincerly miserable, the terrarium was so small that not even my complete hand fitted in it, it could be transported with a single hand and he had only a stick for the snake to get out of the water. I've read too little of this snakes, but now I have it in an aquaterrarium with 2 inches of water with something that heats it. It also has a surface in which it can go out of th water for a wile, and also branches and artificial plants which are useful for it to hide, and an cave in th zone out of the water. I feed it with guppies, the small fish that are really comun as food. My doubt is what I'm missing and what I'm doing wrong. Also some advices of the caring of the specie would do. Thanks and I hope to enjoy my time in this forum.