Common garter snakes (thamnophis Sirtalis)

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A picture can help us identify it, but I believe you're talking about the Eastern Garter (I think that might be the only one in Canada actually). There's no such thing as a 'common garter'. Wherever you are, you'll always hear people calling them that regardless of what species they actually are lol.

Canada actually has a lot of garter snakes... eastern garter, butlers, red-sided, plains, wandering, puget sound, maritime, eastern ribbon, northwestern, valley, etc.

So, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis is actually the Eastern garter It has two sirtalis on the end because there is another subspecies also in the hobby, Thamnophis sirtalis similis (Florida blue stripe garter). There are some other subspecies too I believe

Has nothing to with the hobby, also there are 13 subspecies of sirtalis... most are available and many are common in the hobby. Such as red-sided, blue stripe, california red-sided, oregon red spotted, puget sound, eastern and San Francisco(EU).