Housing different species together.

[ConcinusMan]

Aren't elegans known to eat other garters? I mean, there's certain garters I would never keep together.

I've had no problem keeping concinnus (even large ones) with small ordinoides, but they had plenty of room.

[drache]

Aren't elegans known to eat other garters? I mean, there's certain garters I would never keep together.

this particular vagrans I feel safe with
I've kept him with others before I knew that it could be an issue
by now I've come to believe that with him it just isn't, in part because his eating style is so deliberate
he was my other choice for the contest picture btw
a very sweet boy; his name is Don and he comes from Utah

[Stefan-A]

this particular vagrans I feel safe with
I've kept him with others before I knew that it could be an issue
by now I've come to believe that with him it just isn't, in part because his eating style is so deliberate
he was my other choice for the contest picture btw
a very sweet boy; his name is Don and he comes from Utah

I hope you're right about that individual, but I did have mine together for a couple of years before anything happened.

[Stefan-A]

Aren't elegans known to eat other garters?

Yes. They eat other snakes, including other species of the same genus.

[jitami]

I'd like to pull elegans elegans out of this group. Vagrans are known to be cannibalistic, but I'm not sure T. e. elegans deserve the same rep. Heck they barely look related to me, but that's a different story.