4 years ago or so, I had a garter snake I caught in my mom's backyard while I was over at her house.
I was under the assumption it was a female. A year later I bought a ribbon snake from petco. After the first day, the garter snake started having a strange infatuation with the ribbon snake. And was slithering on top of her, laying across her body.
Here's a picture of them together:
I ultimately had to let the garter snake go, because while fighting over a goldfish, the garter snake's head ended up in her mouth and I had to separate them.
Well some time after I realized the garter snake had been a male and mated with my ribbon snake. I ended up with 11 of these baby snakes to have to raise for a couple weeks and release into the wild. And get a separate tank all set up until I could release them. What a hassle lol.
If they mate in the wild then you single handedly could have messed up the local eco system or at least the natural species genetics.
