Snakes are great!

[Newt]

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/NorthernWatersnake.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Racer.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Wormsnake.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Ringneck.jpg

[Newt]

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Ratsnake.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Queensnake.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Milksnake.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Gartersnake.jpg

[Newt]

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Diamond-backedWatersnake.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Cottonmouth.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Cornsnake.jpg


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Brownsnake.jpg

[Fred Duran]

Unless they're on a plane, apparently. :nyah:

[Amadarwin]

I think you forgot to post some images of the trouser variety...

[Newt]

I wondered how long it would take before someone made a juvenile comment. The answer is obviously, "However long it takes until Amadarwin arrives".

[Fred Duran]

And I'M the youngin', so what does that you? :laugh:

[Newt]

The person who can spell "young'un" and use verbs?

[Fred Duran]

Dammit, it's hot here. You know what I meant.
What the hell, that's twice in two days!

And I'M the young'un, so what does that tell you?

Jeeze, I'M supposed to be the Grammar Nazi.

[Newt]

Hot? Southern Connecticut has never been hot! It's 90° out where I am and everyone's saying, "My, what lovely Fall weather! Thank goodness it's finally cooled off."

[AthenaRose]

Dammit, it's hot here. You know what I meant.
What the hell, that's twice in two days!



Jeeze, I'M supposed to be the Grammar Nazi.

:nyah:

[omega sentry]

Beautiful!!! I want a belt now. :p

[Newt]

Leave my snakes alone, you!

[Calloway]

ever get bit?

[Amadarwin]

I wondered how long it would take before someone made a juvenile comment. The answer is obviously, "However long it takes until Amadarwin arrives".
wait, cupil didn't beat me to it? :cry:

[Buckyrig]

I wondered how long it would take before someone made a juvenile comment. The answer is obviously, "However long it takes until Amadarwin arrives".

Uh...a spontaneous and unsolicited commentary about one's love for snakes could easily lead to far more accusatory responses. :whistlin:

[MattWaterman]

Newt is a penis!!!


:laugh: :banana:

[Luke de Sade]

I had two rainbow boas a long time ago, a male and a female. The female ended up pregnant and gave birth to 5 little rainbow boas which I sold for 60 bucks a pop (yeah, boas give birth to live boas instead of laying eggs).

http://www.snakemuseum.com/photos/boa/BrazilianRainbowBoaF02.jpg

I also had an vine snake (oxybelis fulgidus):

http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/jd/jdweb/Herps/species/Forsnake/oxyful1.jpg

Also had a very agressive amazon tree boa:

http://www.xerimbabo.com.br/Suac_02_web.jpg

And I had four of these (called "Ojo de Gato" in spanish, which translates to "Cat's Eye"... don't know the real name in english):

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/128x192/0000_0000/0104/0495.jpeg

[Newt]

I had two rainbow boas a long time ago, a male and a female. The female ended up pregnant and gave birth to 5 little rainbow boas which I sold for 60 bucks a pop (yeah, boas give birth to live boas instead of laying eggs).

http://www.snakemuseum.com/photos/boa/BrazilianRainbowBoaF02.jpg

I also had an vine snake (oxybelis fulgidus):

http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/jd/jdweb/Herps/species/Forsnake/oxyful1.jpg

Also had a very agressive amazon tree boa:

http://www.xerimbabo.com.br/Suac_02_web.jpg

And I had four of these (called "Ojo de Gato" in spanish, which translates to "Cat's Eye"... don't know the real name in english):

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/128x192/0000_0000/0104/0495.jpeg

Gorgeous snakes, Luke! The Leptodeira are called "Cat-eyed Snakes" in English.

[Newt]

ever get bit?

I have not been bitten by a dangerously venomous snake. I have been bitten many times by gartersnakes, ratsnakes, kingsnakes, racers, watersnakes, boas, wormsnakes, etc. You get used to it.

Buckles, Matters- you two are the reason nobody respects comic book fans.

Amadarwin- Cupil made the first dumb comment, but I think yours wins the puerility award. :nyah:

[Calloway]

gartersnakes I used to catch as a kid. Got bit once. Stopped catching snakes after I mistook a mocassin for a garter and it reared back on me...scary.

[Newt]

gartersnakes I used to catch as a kid. Got bit once. Stopped catching snakes after I mistook a mocassin for a garter and it reared back on me...scary.

Where did you find the moccasin?

[Calloway]

near the river..here in michigan..dunno if that's the official name but that's what we call them...brown snake that's in the water alot and pretty nice sized. In the light it looked like a big garter. I was ten at the time...I believe that's the last time I looked for snakes, turtles or anything...I have found a wide variety of turtles in my life.

[Newt]

near the river..here in michigan..dunno if that's the official name but that's what we call them...brown snake that's in the water alot and pretty nice sized. In the light it looked like a big garter. I was ten at the time...I believe that's the last time I looked for snakes, turtles or anything...I have found a wide variety of turtles in my life.

That's a northern watersnake. Feisty, but non-venomous. Water moccasins, AKA cottonmouths, are a southern snake; extreme southern Illinois and Missouri and coastal Virginia are as far north as they get.

[Calloway]

Well, the teeth were enough for me. I mean it didn't feel great getting bit by the toothless garter but when it reared that was scary. Course I remember the teeth being 10 feet long. I was always a grab by the neck guy but I grabbed this one by the tail. Gotta be quick sometimes.

[Luke de Sade]

The rainbow boa is my favorite snake EVER! Easy to find down here in the wild, too. The one in the pic is the brazilian kind, though. The ones here are darker, but you can still make out the spots.

[Newt]

You're in Panama, right? I'd love to go herping down there.

[Luke de Sade]

Yeah, I'm in Panama. Lots of snakes down here, as well as a shitload of gators and iguanas (although iguanas are protected by law, since people hunt them to eat them).

I got into herpetology when I was 18 or so by a friend of mine who had a lot of snakes. The most beautiful snake he had was a yellow eyelash viper.

http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/sevcik/gold-eyelash-viper--bothriechis-schlegelii.jpg

This guy had a lot of venomous snakes in his room. He also had two piranhas, a venomous giant spider and a black scorpion.

[W. Smith]

You're in Panama, right? I'd love to go herping down there.

Is that the search for herpes? I don't think you need to go that far south... :har:


Anyways this snake here looks like a pile of doggy-doo,

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/.../Brownsnake.jpg

evolution is great ain't it? :p

[Newt]

I love those little climbing pitvipers!

My dad spends a lot of time in Costa Rica, and the pictures he brings back always make me want to go to Central America. Unfortunately, I just can't afford it. Maybe someday...

[Newt]

Is that the search for herpes? I don't think you need to go that far south... :har:


Anyways this snake here looks like a pile of doggy-doo,

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/.../Brownsnake.jpg

evolution is great ain't it? :p

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[W. Smith]

(although iguanas are protected by law, since people hunt them to eat them).


I heared from a fictional Austrailian that you could live off of them (iguanas) but that they taste like shit. :yuk:

[W. Smith]

Page not found!

It's copied from your frickin' post....how could it not be found...

[Newt]

He was talking about goannas (monitor lizards); iguanas don't occur in Australia. In some places iguanas are known as "chicken of the trees"; they're farmed commercially in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

[Nu Jin]

But Solid Snake is BETTER!!! :har:

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l149/Nu_Jin/snake_1600.jpg

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l149/Nu_Jin/SnakebookWall.jpg

[W. Smith]

[IMG]http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/Brownsnake.jpg

There!

Anyways this snake here looks like a pile of doggy-doo, evolution is great ain't it?

[Newt]

It's copied from your frickin' post....how could it not be found...

You discovered a way.

You're the best at failing! :nyah:

[W. Smith]

He was talking about goannas (monitor lizards); iguanas don't occur in Australia. In some places iguanas are known as "chicken of the trees"; they're farmed commercially in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

I am a little uneasy conversing with the well versed in heptology. DO you speak posseltongue? :confused:

[Newt]

Que? :blink:

[W. Smith]

You discovered a way.

You're the best at failing! :nyah:


We all gotta have skillz man! :banana:

[Luke de Sade]

Sadly, I haven't had a snake in a long while because I couldn't deal with the whole feeding thing after a while. Only one of my snakes (the female rainbow) wanted to eat thawed chicks (I bought them dead and froze them). The others all wanted to eat live food (chicks and mice) and after a while, I just couldn't do it any more. I ended up giving all of my snakes away to my friend.

[W. Smith]

Que? :blink:

Not spanish you moron!

Snake!

DO YOU SPEAK SNAKE LANGUAGE...posseeltonuge... Harry Potter? JEEZ! :man:

[Calloway]

I am really newt.

[W. Smith]

I am really newt.


no doubt you are a reptile... :)

[Newt]

False.

[Luke de Sade]

Iguanas taste have a mild chicken taste, and I don't understand why people eat them. They don't have enough meat on them as chicken do, and they taste like chicken, so eat a goddamned chicken instead!

[Calloway]

I'm just trying to see how people assumed i was newt. I'm a turtle guy, he's into snakes.

[Newt]

Not spanish you moron!

Snake!

DO YOU SPEAK SNAKE LANGUAGE...posseeltonuge... Harry Potter? JEEZ! :man:

Sorry, I'm not up on my YA literature. Snakes don't talk. Plus they have very poor hearing, so it doesn't do much good to talk to them unless you have a bass voice (which I do not).

[W. Smith]

Everything taste like chicken- rabbit taste like chicken, squirrel taste like chicken, snake tastes like chicken- I hate chicken!

[Calloway]

and chicken taste like toad.

[Buckyrig]

Bacon doesn't taste like chicken.

[W. Smith]

Sorry, I'm not up on my YA literature. Snakes don't talk. Plus they have very poor hearing, so it doesn't do much good to talk to them unless you have a bass voice (which I do not).

Sorry three teenagers who were all under 12 with HP 1 came out. I have actually lived in hogwarts since the year 2001.

[Luke de Sade]

Ah, another two beauties we have here (although they're not snakes).

The red-eyed tree frog:

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/35673995-S.jpg

The golden frog:

http://www.stri.org/espanol/acerca_stri/noticias/thumbnail.php?id=48

[Newt]

Sadly, I haven't had a snake in a long while because I couldn't deal with the whole feeding thing after a while. Only one of my snakes (the female rainbow) wanted to eat thawed chicks (I bought them dead and froze them). The others all wanted to eat live food (chicks and mice) and after a while, I just couldn't do it any more. I ended up giving all of my snakes away to my friend.

That does wear on some people. Fortunately, I've got all my mouse-eaters on frozen/thawed mice. It's less gory, and you eliminate the possibility that the mouse will bite or scratch the snake, as well as reducing the possibility of parasite transmission. My worm and fish eating snakes are still on live food, though.

[Calloway]

Bacon doesn't taste like chicken.

bacon taste like people.

[W. Smith]

Bacon doesn't taste like chicken.


mmmmmmmpig. Pig is good, bacon is good, pork chops are good. Even if pigs are filthy animals. still, mmmmmmmpig.....

[Newt]

Ah, another two beauties we have here (although they're not snakes).

The red-eyed tree frog:

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/35673995-S.jpg

The golden frog:

http://www.stri.org/espanol/acerca_stri/noticias/thumbnail.php?id=48

They're handsome devils. The red-eyes are getting very popular as pets up here, now; apparently they breed readily in captivity, so they're pretty cheap.

[Newt]

I'm just trying to see how people assumed i was newt. I'm a turtle guy, he's into snakes.

I've actually spent a lot more time working with turtles than with snakes- I've got about 30 captive turtles right now.

[Buckyrig]

mmmmmmmpig. Pig is good, bacon is good, pork chops are good. Even if pigs are filthy animals. still, mmmmmmmpig.....
Fire Purifies!

[Calloway]

we have a large variety in the wild up here. Sand, snapper, mud, leatherback, those long necked ones, painters (obviously) and tons more

[W. Smith]

What are they being held for?

What's the charge?

I'm filing a writ of Habeus corpus- release those innocent turtles at once!

[Luke de Sade]

Over here we have like two or three kind of turtles. That sucks.

[W. Smith]

Fire Purifies!


DAMN SKIPPY!!!!!!!!!

[W. Smith]

Over here we have like two or three kind of turtles. That sucks.

That's casue the snakes eat the rest...

[Newt]

Over here we have like two or three kind of turtles. That sucks.

Don't forget the sea turtles, though!

[Calloway]

Over here we have like two or three kind of turtles. That sucks.


It's amazing the variety of shapes we have here.

http://www.lewis-clark.org/media/images/rept_SpinySoftShell-Wiki.jpg

http://grizzlyrun.com/Files/Images/Other/snapping_turtle1.jpg

http://cars.er.usgs.gov/Education/sldshw/herpetology/SodRAR!3.JPG

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/reptile/images/turtleMidlandPainted.jpg


there's some weird blue shelled turtle here too...apparently what i thought was sand turtle wasn't so I have no idea what the yellow turtle that looked like a painter was...

[Newt]

we have a large variety in the wild up here. Sand, snapper, mud, leatherback, those long necked ones, painters (obviously) and tons more

What do you mean by "sand turtle"? I've never heard this term.

[Luke de Sade]

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/reptile/images/turtleMidlandPainted.jpg


We have a lot of these here. You can find them anywhere.

[Calloway]

What do you mean by "sand turtle"? I've never heard this term.

re above..if your ever in michigan during the summer or spring look me up, got a lot of spots to check out

[Newt]

Check out Northern Map Turtles and see if that's your "sand turtle".

[Calloway]

We have a lot of these here. You can find them anywhere.

yup

[Newt]

We have a lot of these here. You can find them anywhere.

Painted Turtles aren't native to your area, but they are popular pets- probably you have feral populations.

[Calloway]

Check out Northern Map Turtles and see if that's your "sand turtle".


could be, I had caught a tiny one at a lake (as well as one of those blue back turtles in the same day same lake)

[Calloway]

this maybe the blue back I was talking about:


http://www.herpnet.net/Iowa-Herpetology/images/stories/reptiles/turtles/Emydoidea_Blandings_turtle/Emydoidea_Blandings_Turtle_Juv.jpg


michigan turtles:

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_12201-60656--,00.html#Species

plus we have a few "introduced" species, not so much invasion.

[Newt]

Looks like a baby wood turtle or Blanding's turtle; those are northern species that I'm not very familiar with.

[Luke de Sade]

Since we're talking animals here, the pet of choice down here:

http://www.cientec.or.cr/aves/jpgs/perico.jpg

Yeah, not a reptile or amphibian, but what the hell.

And some green iguanas:

http://www.youriguana.com/images/2igs-wikepedia.jpg

[Newt]

Since we're talking animals here, the pet of choice down here:

http://www.cientec.or.cr/aves/jpgs/perico.jpg

Yeah, not a reptile or amphibian, but what the hell.

Is that a conure?

[Luke de Sade]

Is that a conure?

Yeah.

They're really small, maybe 5 inches from head to tail.

[Newt]

Parrots are fun, but I wouldn't be able to put up with their racket.

[Gabriel Solis]

That does wear on some people. Fortunately, I've got all my mouse-eaters on frozen/thawed mice. It's less gory, and you eliminate the possibility that the mouse will bite or scratch the snake, as well as reducing the possibility of parasite transmission. My worm and fish eating snakes are still on live food, though.


I usually use the same method when feeding alligators to my pythons. Alas, the freezer was full of leftovers.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h198/Ralstaan/python.jpg

[Calloway]

says blanding turtle.

[Luke de Sade]

Red crested parrot, which is bigger than the "perico" I posted before.

http://travel.mongabay.com/panama/600/pan02-1898.jpg

[Luke de Sade]

And going back on topic, venomous snakes here in Panama:

The Bushmaster (called "mapana"):

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=13102&rendTypeId=4

The Fer-de-lance (called "equis" or "X" because of the markings on its skin):

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=66127&rendTypeId=4

The Coral:

http://www.floridasnakes.net/coral-snake.jpg