Housing Central American garters with other species

[RedSidedSPR]

I'm hoping to get a scotti within the next few months, but I wanna make sure that they can be housed with.. normal.. Species. I.e. parietalis, concinnus etc. just making sure there's not anything different in care?

[guidofatherof5]

Hoping to get a couple scottis myself this Fall.
Awesome snakes. I'm sure someone more familiar with their care will answer that question soon.

[Steveo]

S. Felzer gave me one with my order of NA species and said they could be housed together. Then I dropped her and she disappeared

[thamneil]

I have a pair coming with my order. I plan to house them with the others.

[annulataarethebest]

At one point I was keeping blackbelly garter snakes with santa cruz garter snakes and a eastern blackneck garter. The only problems they seemed to have was fighting for food, but that's to be expected when you keep multiple snakes in the same enclosure.

[chris-uk]

I've got my Cuitzeos with respective male and female radix so that they have company. No problems and I keep them in the same conditions as the other garters. No problems, other than the female Cuitzeo being more subdued since she moved in with the radix female. One thing to bare in mind is that the Mexican garters are relatively large when fully grown, so you probably wouldn't want them housed with Northwestern Garters.

[RedSidedSPR]

Alright good to know. thanks

And yeah size won't be a problem

[-MARWOLAETH-]

I've read that they are more resistant to scale rot and other skin diseases so you could give them a larger water basin than other Thamnophis.

[RedSidedSPR]

I don't have much of a choice in water bowl size. It's pretty big now, we'll just go with this

[chris-uk]

I've read that they are more resistant to scale rot and other skin diseases so you could give them a larger water basin than other Thamnophis.

They like their water! I can speak for Cuitzeos which I've seen spend over 8 hours in a water bowl without coming out. In the wild Cuitzeos spend a lot of time in Lake Cuitzeo hunting fish.