I think I'll go for it. Over here it's the end of the "garter season" at least for juveniles, and looking around, it seems like he/she (not good yet at sexing) is the last garter in the entire city! -I think next opportunity would be next year... Besides that, it looks in good shape too! I've checked on him/her this morning and the superlabial scales seem to be 7 so it could be a scaliger. He/she also shed skin yesterday, and now looks indeed more brigther! So now the last thing I was thinking about was if I should think of it more like a temperate climate garter, considering the habitat where it theorically lives..