Please ID this snake.

[Castlesamsung]

My wife and I live on a lake with a creek behind our home in florida. She is currently pregnant and two nights ago the dog was outside barking while I was working, my wife went outside to check what the commotion was about and I believe this to be a cottonmouth. I relocated it about 6 acres away in the property in another Creek where there are no people, it had no teeth but after consuming the toad, it would open its mouth showing the white inner. I'm pretty positive it is a cotton mouth, just wanted to verify having a pregnant wife and pets. We are used to alligators on the property, rat snakes, turkeys, and the banded water snake, which I almost confused for it till I saw its eyes and scales.

[FWK]

This is a Southern Water Snake (Nerodia fasciata sp.), harmless. With a location in Florida (city or county) we could tell you the subspecies. A better picture(s) would be nice as well, it almost looks like you tried to get as little of the identifying characteristics of the snake as possible.

[Castlesamsung]

I can not help the site only allowing a certain pixel limit. The photo is high quality, and we have a picture with its mouth open no teeth, only retracted fangs we had to pull from mouth with tweezers, I come in contact with banded water snakes almost daily. This was not it.

[FWK]

Try posting the image to a photo hosting site, such as Photobucket, and linking it. We should be able to get a much better look that way, this forum does seriously compress images.

[SnoopySnake]

Originally Posted by Castlesamsung

I can not help the site only allowing a certain pixel limit. The photo is high quality, and we have a picture with its mouth open no teeth, only retracted fangs we had to pull from mouth with tweezers, I come in contact with banded water snakes almost daily. This was not it.

I promise you did not see fangs. Where is this pic? This is a harmless, non-venomous water snake , like FWK said.