What kind of snake is this....??????

Question

the snake is a lite tan or brown and has a lite red stripe down its back ...we are located in west tx.

Answer 1

it could be a black-necked garter snake or the checkered garter snake or even the eastern coachwip. if you have a pic i could probably tell you what it is without any problem.

Answer 2

It sounds like a red-striped ribbon snake.

Is the stripe like this?

http://www.bugsinthenews.com/Texas%20Sna...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/91/250824...

http://www.gartersnake.info/species/img/...

http://static.flickr.com/22/27151054_7c8...

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa220...

Or it may be a Garter Snake, they can be hard to distinguish from Ribbon snakes.

Like this?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...

http://www.proctormuseum.us/Reptiles/Mod...

http://www.springcreekforest.org/images/...

http://www.cnah.org/images/herps/394.jpg