Hey just found a skin

alnray · 05-28-09, 05:50 AM

I found a snake skin out the front of my property I have no idea as to what it might be we were thining maybe a tipan or king brown we are in south east queensland australia . The skin was about 1.5 to 2 meters or about 5ft

Chu'Wuti · 05-28-09, 06:28 PM

How wonderful! It looks like a perfect shed, too--what a nice souvenir!

Will0W783 · 05-28-09, 06:38 PM

Probably a ratsnake of some sort, or an eastern milksnake. Nice shed- I love snake skins.

Chu'Wuti · 05-29-09, 09:22 PM

Ummm . . . the milk snake is New World only, so it couldn't be that. Are there any rat snakes in Australia? If Richard Shine's text, "Australian Snakes" is complete, then there are no rat snakes there either.

I'll bet Alnray is correct that the shed is from either a king brown or a taipan.

alnray · 05-30-09, 01:40 AM

yeah just worried about the dogs if it's a king brown we wont have much time to get them to a vet if one of them gets bitten

Smilts · 05-30-09, 10:58 AM

I would lean towards the brown if not a more harmless snakes skin. Hey but better the skin than the owner of the skin, especially if it is one of those 2 killers.

JMixx · 05-31-09, 12:25 AM

How gorgeous! I once had the wonderful experience of having a wild corn snake shed right in my hands; it was amazing. He started by rubbing his chin into the palm of my hand, just like my cat does. I didn't realize what he was doing until his markings started to blur. He went through the whole process, using my hands for friction.

Not something I would recommend with a king brown or taipan. Finding the perfect shed is cool enough!!

Will0W783 · 05-31-09, 04:57 PM

LOL- OMG, I must have been seriously sleep-deprived when I answered that- for some reason I missed that you were in Australia....Wow- dummy me. I know none of the snakes I mentioned would be in Australia. Disregard my last post.

alnray · 05-31-09, 05:26 PM

hi all i just got a response from some where els this is what thay think

"Well you can knock out that it is in the family of Blind Snakes, Pythons, File Snake and Colubrid snakes it is deffinatly in the Elapid family, but there are soo many elapids around that area it would be a stab in the dark but i was thinking maybe the (Cacophis) family which is 3 snakes in your area just based on the Head shape, maybe as you said the Mulga Snake (Pseudechis Australis) sorry i couldn't give you a deffinate answer it is really hard to tell a snake by it's skin, Thanks Tim."

thanks for all the posts guys

Chu'Wuti · 06-02-09, 08:07 AM

Glad you got some info you're satisfied with! Come again!