Thanx to everyone, i feel welcome already.
Yes we have beautiful garter snakes in Mexico, in fact i know some of the species, and they are all beautiful, but i found out that with this snake i had trouble identifying it, and we have to look up for it in the internet... the rest is history, he hadnīs ate since we got him, we had to force him, we tried insects (alive) and frogsof course he refused, weīll still be trying small fish this week.
Thanks everyone.
if i can help anyone, i speak (and write) spanish (native speaker), english, and french.