r/snakes

Yes, I know it’s poison ivy.

About a week ago, my husband and I brought home my absolute dream species, a little 8 month old female rhino rat snake. Within 24 hours of coming home she took 2 pinkies from tongs, has done lots of swims in her dish, and basks in her branches for most of the day before retreating to her moss hide in the evening. She's currently in a small exo terra faunarium with a jungle dawn LED setup on a timer and doing wonderfully!

Just wanted to share our little green worm as most of our friends and family dislike snakes, but she is just the cutest little thing 🥺

That feeds about 85% of my snakes, all my snakes that eat every 5 and 7 days anyway, and a cup full of Roaches….cuz there’s 50 or so Tarantulas to feed after the snakes.

Found this fella in my back yard under a wood pile.

what kind of snake is this and why are the eyes blue?

NW Louisiana

We live on an acreage about an hour south of Orlando, Florida. I’m originally from the Midwest and have always loved snakes. I just wanted to share some of the pics I’ve taken of our visitors.

I never handle a wild snake unless I’m rescuing it. These wild corn snakes love to climb our chain link fence for some reason which makes them easy pickings for our birds of prey. I just get them off the fence and relocate. We’re surrounded on three sides by a protected swamp and two undeveloped lots. I’m always finding black racer sheds and have started using them to make jewelry.

I was told that he is a desert morph ball python. I paid 100 for him and his colors were so vibrant when I got him, but now, 3 and a half months later, he looks like a normal ball python. Is he just gonna shed soon? Did they lie to me? (first photo the day I got him the second photo today)

Went behind a small fridge in my office, pretty I presume juvenile black racer

nagini the corn snake

Great encounters and enjoyed seeing them.

A friend called me out today to remove this guy, unfortunate it was very high up in the tree's.
Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) Highly venomous

Recently bought an Amazon tree boa. He’s a bit under a foot long and I have him in a starter enclosure with half the top sealed off, an automatic mister, cypress and moss bedding, heat emitter, a large water dish and multiple branches and plants. He’s been eating and behaving normally for the three weeks I’ve owned him.

Last night I noticed his mouth was open while he was under his heat emitter. I turned it off and his behavior returned to normal for the rest of the night. I believe it may have been a bit too hot. I’ve now ordered another lower wattage emitter and upped the humidity. I believe the humidity was on the low side before but not dangerously low according to my meters. I followed the setup recommendations of my local reptile shop.

His mouth is now closed, but when I hooked him today he’s made the faintest clicking noise. No nose bubbles or anything. Barely audible. He doesn’t do it when he’s moving around. He seems to be breathing fine. I called my vet and she said to monitor him for the weekend, and that since he was improving overall and not showing any real signs of illness yet it may not need antibiotics. She seemed to think it was early irritation opposed to a brewing infection. However I’m a bit nervous. Has anyone dealt with this before? He has no mucus, sneezing, lethargy, or anything like that.

Also the picture above was when I first added him to the cage prior to misting. His humidity generally sat between 60 - 70% but may have dipped down at night due to the 35W emitter. Kicking myself for this. This is my first non-basic snake and it’s been a steep learning curve on getting everything dialed in.