New Snake~ What is it? lmao

[blindfireak40]

Yikes, that looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too similar for comfort...only small differences, the Brown's head looks a little flatter/wider, and that particular brown has an extra row of "plate" scales right behind the eyes, but other than that they could be twins. Please be careful Mary!

[stephanbakir]

Scary how similar they are, but yeh im pretty sure its a pine snake. The ones i catch close to my house are allot whiter, and visibly flatten themselves out when they get angry, but they are really similar

[emilie]

please say you named him "Richard" oh and if it is venomous please get rid of him

[dshin963]

oh lol uhhh I say no handling until you know what it is

[whoaxmary]

Oh goodness guys. Well, I will be bringing him back to Reptile Wrangers later this week when I go to pick up hooks and gloves. I haven't even been able to have too good of a look at the guy besides when he stretches out - so I might have the professinal pick him up and have a look over for me.
He had another really nasty poop I noticed - I think he took on the way home. (There was also one I scooped out when I went to pick him up, and I don't know how recent that was.. I'm assuming it was after the shed that was sitting in his tank)
It's huge, and disgusting - and looks like blood and guts..which I find odd because I was told all it's eaten for a few months were hard boiled eggs.
I wasn't home on Sunday when I normally feed my other two so I fed them last night right before bed, and decided to drop a small rat in with him. (As we all know I'm not handling him right now so I just used my 'kitty litter snake poop scoop' to move some aspen away and let it drop there. I knnnooooowww I shouldn't be bothering him at all - but he was all over the rat~ was gone with in a minute. Jus slithered up, opened up his jaw, and guuulp. lol. (Big relief for me as apperently when the sister had him she always fed live, and I fed froozen so I didn't know what he'd think of a f/t rat.) Deffienetly think he'll eat a medium rats for me once the small ones I picked up our gone. Thanks for all the advice and opinions guess - you know I'll be keeping you as well updated as I can~

[whoaxmary]

Originally Posted by emilie

please say you named him "Richard" oh and if it is venomous please get rid of him

Not 100% sure, but it does look like the name will end up being Richard, :P

[emilie]

^ yessss!
hmmm blood and guts eh?

[dshin963]

perhaps save it and also take the fecal matter when you pick up the gloves and have them inspect it... maybe they know whats up

[whoaxmary]

That's what I'm planning on. Ughh - it stinks to high heaven in that room right now, but he's lapying right near where he pooped and I don't want to be reaching my arm in with him to get it right now. I'm not really too sure what to do with him - I've somehow got to wrangle him into a box or pillow so I can clean it all out.

[emilie]

Originally Posted by whoaxmary

That's what I'm planning on. Ughh - it stinks to high heaven in that room right now, but he's lapying right near where he pooped and I don't want to be reaching my arm in with him to get it right now. I'm not really too sure what to do with him - I've somehow got to wrangle him into a box or pillow so I can clean it all out.

get a ladle or something with a really long handle

[dshin963]

try putting a ft rat in the pillow case and watch him for a little while if he goes in grab the case with tongs and have a box or container ready to put him in

[Freebody]

you can just reach in with a small blanket and cover him for transport if he decides to bite. once hes covered he should mellow down as you pull him out. looks like a sweet looking snake btw

[percey39]

Definetely not a mulga snake/king brown as the head scalation and pattern is completely different and the fact that there are next to no, if any aussie king browns (Pseudechis Australis) in private collections over seas. With the pic of the mulga snake you can clearly see that the head shape of the snake you posses is more of a sharp decline to the nose compared to the mulga snake which is flatter and longer. The pattern makes me think it is some sort of rat snake, but the head scalation is hard to determin from the photo's. Im no expert with all the species you guy's can keep ( as we can only keep native species in private collections here in Australia ), but the scalation and pattern to me point to a rat snake. I may be wrong but that is what it looks like to me from your pics.

[emilie]

rat snake is a good thing, haha means you wont die. thumbs up!

[Aaron_S]

It's most likely a southern pine snake.