Posted: 4/4/2007 10:00:33 AM EDT
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charcoal colored on top. Red belly with black tiger stripes. very small. 10 inches. At work, can't post pics. sitting on my desk right now. Buyer caught in her house this morning. I will set him free at home. Just curious. I am guessing young "rat" or "corn" snake. |
Hold its head up close to your face. Stare it down and mock it every move. Whenever it flicks its tongue, you do the same. Try having a stare down contest with it. You have the power. Make it conform to your will. |
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The deadly red belly black tiger stripe mamba… or maybe not. Maybe a young rainbow snake  www.uga.edu/srelherp/snakes/farery.htm Or young mud snake  www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/fl-guide/fabacura02.jpg |
closest thing on that page is the 'eastern worm snake" but the red is brighter on my specimen and mine has black stripes running horizontally on the red belly. Could be a very young rainbow that hasn't developed stripes on top portion yet I suppose. Thanks foa all the replies. Some have me rolling. I will post pics when I get home. |
Good man! Sorry, I'm pro-snakey |
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more red than the orange in that pic. black stripes running across belly. red extends up higher than in that pic. Very docile little chilly down here so I think that is contributing to his docility If friggin work firewall didn't block my photo server I could give y'all a pic. |
great minds think alike,
Yea, but the only email I've gotten so far is trying to sell me something to increase the size of my snake. Not quite what I had in mind... |
you got it. My new hero for the day. thanks |
we have already told her that this is probably 1 of 10-12 babies and at least 2 adults and possibly a whole reptile commune in attendance in her house. I expect to see her house on the market very quickly. 
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+1 on the eastern mud snake Thanks for letting it go. The best place to let it go is going to me in a swampy area or an area that stays wet year round. A creek or pond with lots of weeds and a muddy bottom would be best They spend a majority of time underwater or in the mud, so they are hard to find. I have only caught one befor (south east texas) I have also only come across 2 road kill eastern muds. Invisiblesoul |
You made me lol - I like to tell my students that a large pet snake is loose in the area, and the city believes that it may be in the sewer system. Since it went in through a toilet, the city suspects it will come out the same way. The horrified looks on girls' faces has kept me doing this for years. I never tell them it's a joke. ETA - these are university students, not little children, which I scare the hell out of. I'm not that big of a jerk. |
I will be heading home in another 30 minutes. I will turn him loose below the spillway on my smallest pond. He will live long and prosper hopefully. First of his kind I have ever seen. |
...another in support of the anti-rodent league! |