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Title: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: jeeps on January 23, 2013, 11:53:19 AM
I've had a couple of these little baby pythons around the yard lately. Very small, the first pic show my car key in the pic to illustrate it's size. It's a carpet python which i'd say is Amythystine Python (Scrub Python), not sure but i want to know the exact species. It was quite placid, not that i handled it. Does anyone recognize it?

(http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp300/jeeps_photo/Home/IMG_0151.jpg)

(http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp300/jeeps_photo/Home/IMG_0150.jpg)

(http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp300/jeeps_photo/Home/IMG_0149.jpg)


cheers
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: xcvator on January 23, 2013, 01:19:48 PM
Dunno know what sort of snake that is, but I bet you don't have too many mice around  :D
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Mallory Black on January 23, 2013, 01:59:53 PM
not an expert but looks like a young scrub python alright... in need of a feed by the look of him
very pretty
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Mace on January 23, 2013, 02:04:16 PM
Are you lot gonna tell me that that cute, pretty thing can grow into one of these:

(shocked smiley)
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: UR-50-LO on January 23, 2013, 02:23:10 PM
It's a coastal carpet python... Harmless!!!
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: sol on January 23, 2013, 02:25:49 PM
My son looked at it and reckons its a Bredli Python.

     :cheers:
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: dungee on January 23, 2013, 02:37:12 PM
Looks like a baby Coastal Carpet or Morelia Spilota Mcdowelli, these come in quite a range of different colours.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: UR-50-LO on January 23, 2013, 02:42:17 PM
Bredli are red and white (with black outlines unless Hypomenalistic) and have a limited locality of Central Aus in the NT (Alice Springs area). They'd be out of their range in QLD and be extremely lucky to have bred true with other rogues of the same species if a lost pet etc...The snake has typical coastal colouring (although they are very variable) and markings (saddles). I've kept and bred snakes since the early 80's and published an article on this exact species. I would bet both my nuts, 2 arms and a leg or 2 on it infact  lol.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Kit_e_kat9 on January 23, 2013, 03:35:18 PM


Another vote for Coastal Carpet Python ... we had one called Monty ... but he's "gone bush" now.  See if I can find you a pic.  Oh hey, found the snake babies the BF rescued from a work site too.  So cute!   ;D

Kit_e

Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Mace on January 23, 2013, 03:38:10 PM
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Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: cruisindub on January 23, 2013, 05:56:48 PM
Might be harmless, but still would have scared the bejesus out of me.
Title: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: BigJules on January 23, 2013, 07:20:27 PM
Lovely snake
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: markg66 on January 23, 2013, 08:08:22 PM
Used to have a resident carpet snake in the shed each summer, loved to sleep wrapped around the drill press, was a hassle moving him when I needed to drill something but was a great snake, very placid but left snake crap every where, now there's no snake I have to bait the rodents, the snake was much more fun even with the snake crap to clean up.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Trackabout Off Road Campers on January 23, 2013, 08:49:16 PM
I'd like to think your key's bigger than it looks  :cheers:
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: gonfishen on January 23, 2013, 08:55:46 PM
Love snake, some people think it tastes like chicken, but i think it tastes like Kola just my opinion
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Tjupurula on January 23, 2013, 08:56:08 PM
Let it grow a bit, well maybe a lot, and I will not worry about the name, just call it tucker.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: evolution on January 23, 2013, 08:56:43 PM
I'd like to think your key's bigger than it looks  :cheers:

I think it is mate  ;)

Cheers
Evo
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Trackabout Off Road Campers on January 23, 2013, 09:25:00 PM
Evo, they are very little men!
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: evolution on January 23, 2013, 09:47:26 PM
Evo, they are very little men!

Yeah considering I think the key goes with this car.
I mean jeeps, do you really need such a big car? I mean if the hummer is a little big for our tracks, how do you go?  ;D ;D

Cheers
Evo
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: alnjan on January 23, 2013, 09:51:25 PM
We have this guy and a few of his mates living around us.  Sometimes they come and say hello

(http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/2844/imag0654copy.jpg)
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: jeeps on January 24, 2013, 02:08:00 AM
Yeah considering I think the key goes with this car.
I mean jeeps, do you really need such a big car? I mean if the hummer is a little big for our tracks, how do you go?  ;D ;D

Cheers
Evo

What can i say, i have big hands so i need a big steering wheel ;)

cheers
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: fishfinder on January 24, 2013, 04:54:50 AM
yep it is an emu
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: jaycamrie on January 24, 2013, 05:07:11 AM
Here is one that lives in the shed

(http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q628/jaycamrie/9-7-2012056.jpg)
(http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q628/jaycamrie/9-7-2012045.jpg)
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: dungee on January 24, 2013, 07:09:44 PM
They don't like it when you hold their head :-(
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Hairs on February 05, 2013, 03:15:20 PM
With all the wet weather around of late, we have a little visitor hanging around the back door and in the carport.
Does anyone know what type of snake it is?
You may have top download the pic and zoom in.
 :cheers:
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Kit_e_kat9 on February 05, 2013, 03:52:24 PM
With all the wet weather around of late, we have a little visitor hanging around the back door and in the carport.
Does anyone know what type of snake it is?
You may have top download the pic and zoom in.
 :cheers:

It's got a yellowish belly ... and it's black    :o    I wouldn't be giving it a kiss or a massage that's for sure. 

Even the "harmless" ones still bite ...

Kit_e
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Hairs on February 05, 2013, 04:08:16 PM
G'day Kit_e,
We have Red Bellie Blacks around the house at times, as well as a Python that spend time on the roof under the Solar panels and on the grass near the bank of shrubs by the shed. We also have three families of Blue Tongues that live around the house in varied places, sometimes in the horse feed shed, I know Fysh has come across one of them by the squeal that comes from the shed  ;D
A fortnight ago, I was checking the fuel filter on the cruiser and the little buggar coiled around my ankle and slithered across my bare feet.
It wasn't aggressive towards me at all, Just after the above picture was taken I got a broom stick and was able to pick it with it and walked way over into to the paddock were there is a big pile of old branches, haven't seen it since.
 :cheers:

Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Jeepers Creepers on February 05, 2013, 04:15:29 PM
Prolly a bit stunned by the smell of of ya feet i'm thinking.

Poor little bugger was last seen trying to get ya toejam off his little face.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Hairs on February 05, 2013, 04:19:12 PM
(http://www.hairfysh.com/images/Icons/Smileys/pot%20stiring.gif)
LOL, You idiot (http://www.hairfysh.com/images/Icons/Smileys/smiley-laughing011.gif)
 :cheers:
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Jeepers Creepers on February 05, 2013, 06:38:32 PM
I am so.....  ;D
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: hargs on February 05, 2013, 06:50:47 PM
Being from down south, there is only one good snake....
 :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel:
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Pauly on February 05, 2013, 07:39:25 PM
With all the wet weather around of late, we have a little visitor hanging around the back door and in the carport.
Does anyone know what type of snake it is?
You may have top download the pic and zoom in.
 :cheers:

My bet is an Olive tree python.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Mace on February 05, 2013, 07:52:11 PM
Dont know much about tropical snakes, but no such thing as a true "Yellow Bellied" Black Snake. Red Bellied, yes.

Green Tree snakes apparently have many colour variations. Do a google image search on them.

http://www.greenpagesaustralia.com.au/green-tree-snake (http://www.greenpagesaustralia.com.au/green-tree-snake)
Title: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: scarps on February 05, 2013, 08:23:27 PM
I had an interesting experience while fishing last weekend with snake identification.
Son said He saw a brown snake drop off the riverbank near where we were in our boat. As it started to then swim toward us, I saw dark stripes on it's 1.5m+ side and thought sh1t - tiger snake!!!
As I was wrestling it away from coming on board the back of our boat using the long handled landing net, I clearly saw the diamond pattern on it's back and thought Ok, maybe diamond python?

Everyone nearby roared with laughter watching me wrestle a 1.5m snake of whatever kind away from the back of my boat.
Took a few minutes but I won eventually and it swam off to the other bank, while I then changed my boxers.

Moral to story? Not sure, just lucky that son saw it fall in the first place as it could have easily snuck up and in the boat before we realised-----------
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: fishfinder on February 05, 2013, 08:52:45 PM
all the more reason to get a big boat - thanks for that story i must tell the other half
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: torsion on February 05, 2013, 09:03:31 PM
**** I hate snakes.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Marschy on February 05, 2013, 09:13:27 PM
Kayaking at Walker Flat on the Murray on one of the nice warm back waters, a brown snake swam over the front of the kayak as I was slowly paddling along.

Had to wash the kayak out later, and let just say the water was a little bit browner than usual afterwards.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: fishfinder on February 06, 2013, 02:04:05 PM
**** I hate snakes.
I heard it tastes like chicken
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: bushbandit on February 06, 2013, 02:24:47 PM
When i helped out at our aged care facility i spotted the curtains move in the dining room when i investigated i found a Brown snake behind them it was in  the dining room all the residents were seated for breaky.Well i couldnt say to much for they would have panicked i kept an eye on it till the other nurse came back and gestured to her whispering theres a brown snake behind the curtain,well she shouted snake all the residents jumped up i quickly took control and had them all move to the otherside of the room.I then found one of those long handled dust pans and the broom which after a few attempts managed to secure it on the dustpan scurried outside and off it went.The residents were that hyped up and excited they didnt stop talking about it for two days.I then had to front the facility manager because as we all found out there was a snake policy, yeah ok i should have just left it to crawl all over the 20 odd residents.
Title: Re: Need help identifying snake...
Post by: Hairs on February 06, 2013, 03:42:58 PM
My bet is an Olive tree python.

Cheers mate,
I had an idea it was a python, just wasn't sure which type.
So I went and  Google it (http://www.snakeranch.com.au/our-snakes/olive-python/)
This would explain it's temperament.
 :cheers: