Snake ID Question . . .

• Apr 14, 2015

• #1

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law dawg

Senior Member

So, what kind is this? I was told it was around 3 feet long. Thanks in advance.

 

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• Apr 14, 2015

• #2

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StriperrHunterr

Senior Member

Looks like a water snake to me. They can flatten their heads to imitate a copper head.

 

• Apr 14, 2015

• #3

660griz

Senior Member

I can't see the pupils, pits or belly, based on the diameter ratio between body and tail, I would say water snake since they can have a diamond head.

 

• Apr 14, 2015

• #4

elfiii

Admin

Staff member

StripeRR HunteRR said:

Looks like a water snake to me. They can flatten their heads to imitate a copper head.

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X 2. Brown water snake.

 

• Apr 14, 2015

• #5

Nicodemus

The Recluse

Staff member

It`s a gray rat snake. Down here we call em an oak snake, some call em a white oak runner.

Non venomous.

 

• Apr 14, 2015

• #6

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law dawg

Senior Member

Thanks everyone. It was found in my house last week while we were out of town . . .

 

• Apr 14, 2015

• #7

NCHillbilly

Administrator

Staff member

Rat snake, as Nic said. Our adults up here in the mountains are black, but the young ones look like that. Through most of Georgia, the adults never lose that spotted color phase. Also the most common snake that will go into your house.

 

• Apr 14, 2015

• #8

watermedic

Senior Member

Brown phase of the Oak Snake.

Good to have around

 

• Apr 15, 2015

• #9

Anvil Head

Senior Member

Feed him and keep him around. Probably tracking scent when he entered the house....usually means his kind of food is available, inside. Sounds like you have other visitors as well, the more destructive kind that have fleas.

 

• Apr 15, 2015

• #10

OneCrazyGeek

Senior Member

Black Racer

 

• Apr 15, 2015

• #11

fireman32

"Useless Billy" Fire Chief.

Here's the baby version. Found it at a church the other day. Oak snake in these parts.

 

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• Apr 15, 2015

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bulldawgborn

Senior Member

Interesting colored oak snake. I thought it might have been a brown phased corn snake, but if anybody knows for sure it ought to be Nic. My first pet was a corn snake. My aunt later took to raising them, and by the time she stopped she had all sorts of different color phases. Can't say any were exactly that color but I have seen and caught some wild ones in middle Georgia that were almost that dark...but still red.

 

• Apr 16, 2015

• #13

shakey gizzard

Senior Member

Yup! The difference between adults and juvenile's in some species, can be amazing!