by Zohar » Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:19 pm
Hey guys, I didn't want to start another topic so I'm hi-jacking this one! (apologies for anyone thats actually been hijacked. No harm intended.) So I was out in my backyard looking for whip scorpions when I find this stunning brown snake. I picked it up and brought it in. It was pretty scared, striking away at me but it didn't get a bite in thankfully because I'm not sure if it is a brown house snake even though the chance of it being anything else is really slim.
My problem is that this snake has amazing stripes from the head going down towards the tail but slowly fades off. Is this a morph of brown house snake?
I haven't been able to take pics because it is scared. I have found a way to handle it and it is warming up to me. I will take a pic as soon as I can but in the meantime if anyone can tell me if this is possibly a brown house snake with stripes, I'd appreciate it.
Also it is not more than 30cm so I'm hoping to find more soon. It had breakfast this morning but got so scared of me that it regurgitated; that was not my intention. It swallowed a skink larger than itself! The amazing think is that the only visible difference between the skink and the snake is that the skink has legs! Other than that they are practically twins. I have hundreds of skinks in my yard and out back.
Californian King Snake [Nagini]
Mexican Black King Snakes [Neraluna (Dark Moon); Matt]
Corn Snakes [Female Snow(Lilith); Female Strawberry Albino(Nagina); Male Blood Red (Adlai)]
Brown House Snake
Haitian Brown
Venezuelan Sun Tiger (Psalmopoeus irminia)
Green Bottle Blue
Trinidad Olive
Pumpkin Patch
Costa Rican Tiger Rump
Peruvian Dwarf Beauty
Fringed Ornamental
Orange Tree Spider
Violet Tree Spider
Lots more!
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