Some random pics (Puget Sound and Eastern)...

[gazzamann]

nice snake i have just bourt a flame x melanistic is this a common garter , if so would you be able to look at my thread and let me no , its called new thamnophis , my heads been puzzled lol

[Thamnophis]

nice snake i have just bourt a flame x melanistic is this a common garter , if so would you be able to look at my thread and let me no , its called new thamnophis , my heads been puzzled lol

It is an Eastern garter snake.
Looks a lot like those of mine. On the first picture it looks darker.
In my case the father was a flame bred by Alan Francis and the mother a melanistic bred by Steven Bol (originally from Pelee Island).