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Posted: 5/21/2021 12:36:59 AM EDT
I enjoy danger noodle threads.  Especially here.  Y’all get all hot and bothered by colors, head shapes etc, and actually have, based upon my 12 years here, gotten wrong about 87% of your ID threads (just teasing - the correct ID usually gets pointed out pretty quickly).  ID’ing snakes is hard, even for the pros.

MODS - PIN THIS

I am only @ one person in this thread, and that’s because he knows his shit based on what I’ve read. There are others here that are just as knowledgeable, so IM me to help save snakes.

@azjeeper

Post your snake queries, photos etc here.

Background / I have a masters degree in herpetology and another in mammalian cell culture.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 12:44:13 AM EDT
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I’ll start.

Link Posted: 5/21/2021 12:48:53 AM EDT
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I love snakes, but have basic knowledge. This is neat. Include photos of venomous snakes and generally neat snakes and what region of US they're found in. Basic diet and length. I've spent hours of pursuing Wikipedia about this stuff.

Thanks!
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 12:56:46 AM EDT
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TX Coral. The older ones sometimes don’t match your rhyme.  They can have red spots within their black stripes.




Very young CM.



Hog. They can have an awesome variety of colors and trick you in to thinking they are either an Atrox or Agkistrodon



Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:16:08 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:17:25 AM EDT
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Is this a quiz, or just random pic thread?
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:19:30 AM EDT
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This is educational thread.
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This is educational thread.

It would be more educational if the photos had captions and whether the snake was venomous or not.  There are plenty of us that have a "kill and determine type later" attitude towards snakes when they're somewhere they're not welcome.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:24:12 AM EDT
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Agreed. I’ll go back and label mine.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:33:06 AM EDT
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Not yet.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:35:06 AM EDT
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Well shit.  They dont bother me I dont bother them but spiders snakes bugs fuck it nuke it from orbit.   22lr and 22mag used to have snake shot though, never really tested it out cause never needed to.  Hmmm...
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:47:29 AM EDT
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I only like other mammals
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:53:31 AM EDT
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in! My old rainbow.
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I do have one that needs to be identified. I think it's a fox snake but other say it's something else.
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Link Posted: 5/21/2021 1:54:17 AM EDT
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If we are talkin snakes we gotta get @Bubbles in here also.
I’ve got a snake or two. Nothing venomous. Boas, BPs, Black King, Viper Boas. Very cool animals. I also have a few Tarantulas. They are kinda cool.


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Link Posted: 5/21/2021 3:41:29 AM EDT
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New visitor at the farm. Rat snake perhaps???Attachment Attached File
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 5:26:27 AM EDT
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Was Carl Kauffield your hero growing up?
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 5:36:01 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/21/2021 5:49:01 AM EDT
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I approve of this thread, although I don't think we get it wrong as often as OP suggests. Many folks here have experience with snakes and try to chime in on threads to help. If anything, when I've seen someone post about killing a harmless snake the Poster gets called out on it.

Cool thread
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 5:49:56 AM EDT
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Had a sinaloan milk snake named Dave years back.  He was cool as shit.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 6:23:54 AM EDT
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Pretty coral I walked up on the other day.


and some cool horned lizards? from west Texas.



Link Posted: 5/21/2021 6:30:48 AM EDT
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Precious tried to eat a Copperhead the other night down at the party barn, it had to die, sorry bro.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 6:36:56 AM EDT
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We caught one at work like the first photo on OP.

I have handled my share of Rat snakes but I couldn't ID the little guy and if I cant 100% confirm what it is I aint picking it up.

Currently looking for a Hog Nose for the kid. I saw one recently but (I think it was a she) got away from me.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 6:40:09 AM EDT
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What is the current recommended first aid for a venomous snake bite?
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 6:49:26 AM EDT
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This thread reminds me of a snake I killed 2 years ago. It came cruising into the garage when I was on a creeper under a car.

South central PA. Longest snake i have personally seen here and never seen this type before.


Link Posted: 5/21/2021 6:50:45 AM EDT
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My “pet” snake, Carl. He’s a rat snake that likes to hang around our house.

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Link Posted: 5/21/2021 6:54:09 AM EDT
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South central PA. Longest snake i have personally seen here and never seen this type before.

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What is it? Some kind of king snake?
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:00:57 AM EDT
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ETA: No ID needed I know exactly what it is, just posting as a good representative photo

Juvenile copperhead about to be deprived of his lunch and his life
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:08:15 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:20:38 AM EDT
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i killed a copperhead a few weeks back, and saw a green snake by the mailbox yesterday. all iv seen this year.

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Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:24:28 AM EDT
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I'm pretty good with Texas snakes, but I'll admit I missed the fox snake in that thread a few days ago.  

Good idea, Bob.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:25:16 AM EDT
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Will this guy recover?

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Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:26:02 AM EDT
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lots of folks on the other snek threads recently posted,,,"let them be, they do good stuff",,,while that may be
true, those do-gooders can go work somewhere else

i keep a .410 & .38 w/shot handy if they choose to attempt to inhabit the same space as me.
tally so far this season is 2 coral & one copperhead snek

I guess those that say they're ok don't go sticking their hands under garden plants on a daily basis.

to each his own
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:30:11 AM EDT
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If we are talkin snakes we gotta get @Bubbles in here also.
I’ve got a snake or two. Nothing venomous. Boas, BPs, Black King, Viper Boas. Very cool animals. I also have a few Tarantulas. They are kinda cool.


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I’ve actually never had a pet snake.  My primary focus was on lizards and the only herp I’ve ever had as a pet was a Yemen chameleon.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:32:14 AM EDT
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Kauffeld was cool.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:34:03 AM EDT
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This thread reminds me of a snake I killed 2 years ago. It came cruising into the garage when I was on a creeper under a car.

South central PA. Longest snake i have personally seen here and never seen this type before.

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Milk snake I think.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:34:06 AM EDT
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A very angry one that almost gave my wife a heart attack when she was opening the gate.  

Coachwhip, right?
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:35:04 AM EDT
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Curiously enough, Dave has a Pueblan milk snake named Sinalo!
( Actually, it's named Pueblo;  pretty creative, huh?)
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:37:56 AM EDT
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Kauffeld was cool.
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Kauffeld was cool.



About wore his be books out when I was a kid.
LOL,  STILL carry a few pillow cases and a hook made out of a golf club in my truck.
45 years later.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:42:25 AM EDT
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Actually looks like a cottonmouth to me.
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You claim to be a snek expert and yet I don't think this is a snek, look, it has phalanges
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:45:05 AM EDT
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Got this black snake off my deck support beam after he ate a bunch of baby robins.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:46:29 AM EDT
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I was a kid in south florida / homestead, back in 1970.  there would be a big ass snake of some variety in our yard every other day.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:47:19 AM EDT
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Hook Nose Snake I believe.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:50:59 AM EDT
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Actually looks like a cottonmouth to me.
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Juvenile copperhead about to be deprived of his lunch and his life
Actually looks like a cottonmouth to me.


Definitely a Cottonmouth.
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:53:01 AM EDT
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Pfffft.

Snakes, shmakes.

As long as the "no step on sneks" stay the fuck away from me, I don't care.

What this thread REALLY needs is moar BLOB!

IT'S BLOB-TASTIC!!!
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:53:07 AM EDT
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Same
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:59:01 AM EDT
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Here's my new vest I bought for summer.

It is leather and genuine python skin.

This is the good kind of snake - a dead one.



(Yeah just kidding.  I know snakes are important to the ecology and eat rats and other shit we don't want.  I love me some snakes.  Spare me the torches and pitchforks, ya jamochs).
Link Posted: 5/21/2021 8:59:22 AM EDT
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