Can i keep my corn snake and a garter snake in the same tank?

Question

i have a 20 gallon long tank and i have a 12-14 inch corn snake living in there i was wondering if i could put a 10-11 inch wild caught garter snake in there. i caught him like 2 days ago in my house and when i picked him up he bit me and wouldn't let go but now i can pick him up and he doesn't even strike at me. so could i put him in there with my corn snake?

Answer 1

No, you can't.

Its never a good idea to intermix species of snakes together because of aggression. One of your snakes WILL kill the other if you put them together.

NEVER put a wild caught snake in with a captive snake. Wild snakes often have mites, ticks, internal parasites, and worse that can be transmitted to your snake.

Do NOT handle the garter snake for at least two weeks, and make sure you wash your hands every time you touch its enclosure. I personally would recommend releasing the snake.  

Answer 2

No, its a bad idea to put in snakes of different species, its actually a bad idea to mix snakes at ALL.  They are solitary creatures and they don't like being together.

this site gives a lot of reasons why - http://pinkladyconstrictors.com/?page_id...

Answer 3

You CAN NOT keep two of different species of snakes in the same tank. They can carry diseases and they would make them sick. Also since you caught the snake, there is about 95% chance your snake would get sick from it. Wild snakes could carry diseases that would affect you and your snake.

A corn snake needs a dry enviroment compare to a garter snake who needs a moist enviroment. You can't house two snakes with two different needs. It could kill them. Also a corn snake could eat the garter snake(their has been cases of corn snakes eating other snakes)

I can't ever stress this enough. You can't keep two of different species in the same cage. They have different requirements also.

So in conclusion you can't keep a corn snake and a garter snake together(also you can't keep a cornsnake+garter snake with a, king snake, pit viper, anaconda, milk snake, red tail boa, rainbow boa, tree boa, blood python, retic python, rock python, rat snake, worm snake, water snake, coral snake, indigo snake, carpet python, children's python, sand boa, rubber boa, etc.)

A corn snakes and garter can ONLY be housed with the same species many purposes. So corn snake with corn snake, garter snake with garter snake. But I wouldn't recommend housing corn snakes with corn snake because they might eat each other and it could stress them out. Well housing any 2 of the same can stress them out. So each snakes you own, should(recommended) be housed in different tanks even if they they are the same species.

Please release the garter snake. They were meant to be in the wild. Once you take them in and make them as captive pets, they would probably die because of the enviromental stress. Being captive is very different from being in the wild. Please please let him go. For you, for your corn snake, and also for the wild garter snake.

Please. Why would you remove a happy snake from their happy enviroment? You would like to be removed from your home and put into a small home? (not trying to be mean)

Answer 4

i would suggest not my cousin did that and they killed each other snake in the same tank jenorilly arnt a good idea

xoxo kimberly