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Snakes per tank?
One of the things I love about garter snakes (most of them, anyway), is that they can be kept in groups, and actually seem to do better in groups. When I was a kid, we had a checkered female that we aptly named Mamasan. Had her tail not been cut, she would have been a record for the state of Texas. Within a month of getting her, she had 42 babies- and we had a bit of a situation. How do you house 42 babies? We tried leaving them together, which worked for the first two months, but after that we had to start separating them into smaller groups to avoid cannibalism just before feeding time. In the end, we worked out that 6 snakes per tank seemed to be a good number.
How many garters have you had in a tank at once? What kind of issues did you have to deal with? What have you found to be the ideal number of snakes per tank?
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