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06-24-11, 04:58 PM
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Need help identifying
I found this forum in searching for what type of snake this is, thought it was a brown water snake but I am not really sure, any help would be appreciated. It was living in and near my backyard pond and I think was feasting on some of my fish as the population has gone down some. I caught tonight and relocated to another pond that is away from people so he can have a good life. My dog actually found him tongiht.
Thanks in advance
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06-24-11, 05:31 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
Banded water snake.. harmless.
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06-24-11, 05:32 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
Very nice water snake!
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06-24-11, 05:35 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
How nice of you to release the snake and not kill it.
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06-24-11, 05:37 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
its head looks kind of evil for some reason lol.
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06-24-11, 05:43 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
Wow thanks for the fast responses. Yes when I was getting him out of the rocks he opened his mouth rather wide and freaked me out for a minute not knowing if he was poisonous.
Thanks everyone.
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06-24-11, 05:45 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
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Originally Posted by TeaNinja
its head looks kind of evil for some reason lol.
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Like this one that lives by my creek?
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06-24-11, 05:47 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
Major props to you for relocating the snake.
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06-24-11, 05:48 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
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Like this one that lives by my creek?
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haha, yea
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06-24-11, 06:00 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
I am not a big fan of snakes but they too a right to live and serve a purpose in the food chain, I just didn't want him eating my fish or frogs so he was relocated to a bigger pond where I think he will be happier.
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06-24-11, 06:18 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
To me the short fat body reminds me of a cottonmouth...but the head angle is so skewed I just have to go with Infernalis on this one.
Thank you for having the good sense to just move him to a new home! So many people would have snagged the shovel instead. Also how big is your pond? For one snake to deplete your population seems off.
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06-24-11, 06:42 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
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Also how big is your pond? For one snake to deplete your population seems off.
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I have heard more than once of Garter snakes and water snakes wiping out all fish in decorative garden ponds.
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06-24-11, 06:53 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
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Originally Posted by NennaMeerkat
To me the short fat body reminds me of a cottonmouth...but the head angle is so skewed I just have to go with Infernalis on this one.
Thank you for having the good sense to just move him to a new home! So many people would have snagged the shovel instead. Also how big is your pond? For one snake to deplete your population seems off.
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My pond is 12x16 and is 2-3' deep. I should have gotten a better pic of its head but I was just glad to get it out from under my waterfall rocks. However the head was sort of flat and reminded me of a rattlesnakes head on a much smaller scale.
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06-24-11, 06:59 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
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I have heard more than once of Garter snakes and water snakes wiping out all fish in decorative garden ponds.
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Did you mean to make it plural I wonder? I can understand that being true, but I didn't know if they had one of those little things or a true pond. That is all Though not to say the smaller ponds aren't "real" but I think ya know what I mean by that.
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06-24-11, 09:18 PM
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Re: Need help identifying
Glad you relocated it
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