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To ask a question about a snake, don't reply to this post, go to the forum home page and start a new post. Your question will get a lot more exposure. Please give us an idea of where you live, as reptiles can often be identified only by locality!
Please do not place messages about killing a snake, and asking what kind it is you have killed! That is like going onto a message board about dogs and telling about torturing one to death, and asking what kind of breed it was. You will likely get "flamed", and likely by the forum owner, depending on his mood that day.
A note about head shape in snakes: Head shape is a totally useless character for identifying a snake, and has nothing to do with whether the serpent is or is not venomous (poisonous). Many harmless snakes, especially when young, have rather large heads. Please describe color, pattern, markings, and habitat where the snake was found. The shape of the head will not help us in any way.
Thank you.
Re: what type of snake
Posted by Alex on October 13, 2009, 11:59 am, in reply to "what type of snake"
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I do hope you were not the one to kill it. That can get some serious flames on this board.
It is a Banded Water Snake, a harmless, colorful snake that mostly eats small fish and frogs. Though it lives in the same areas as the Cottonmouth, and has a head that it can spread, it is no relation tho the Cottonmouth, and has neither fangs nor venom.
If you were to pick one up in the field, it would likely bite you, but the bite is harmless, though often bloody.
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: Found this in my back yard in south
: florida. Snake is bluish with brown
: blotch pattern. Long skinny tail.
: Overal length about 14 inches
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