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09-Jan-07, 06:44 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Central coast Age: 22 | | | Brown Vs Red Bellied Black
Hey can anyone tell me if this is true or just a myth. If you have red bellied blacks in the area then you wont get any browns or vise versa. Guys at work where talking about it and asked me because im into snakes but i dont know if its true or not so can anyone clear this up for me.
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09-Jan-07, 06:45 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: here | | | | iv heard that 2
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09-Jan-07, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Carvid  Hey can anyone tell me if this is true or just a myth. If you have red bellied blacks in the area then you wont get any browns or vise versa. Guys at work where talking about it and asked me because im into snakes but i dont know if its true or not so can anyone clear this up for me. | False. It the same as saying Blueys keep snakes away, til one comes and eats the bluey.
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09-Jan-07, 06:58 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Sydney West and Manly area. Age: 16 | | | | deafinatly false i have both in my area
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09-Jan-07, 07:00 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | There is some truth behind it, but you can get both in the same area. I think its more that you get more brown snakes where rbbs are wiped out. |
09-Jan-07, 07:19 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Tamworth Gender: | | | | i no a guy who lives about 40 mins out in the scrub from coffs and gets the 2 regulary |
09-Jan-07, 08:01 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Central coast Age: 22 | | | | ok thanks guys
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09-Jan-07, 09:49 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: either fishing or not | | | | Hey Carvid, from a life of bowhunting in places like the Macquarie Marshes - which is absolutely crawling with both species - the red bellies hang out for the most part around wet areas and the browns favour the dry stuff. So can be in the same area but have different habitat preferences. |
10-Jan-07, 05:45 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | | both occur in the yarrawonga district to but as fishhead said,the browns like the drier area and the rbb will be on the river and surrounding wet areas.
the rbb are good at eating browns to so there is a bit of truth in the "myth",,
generally speaking.
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10-Jan-07, 06:38 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-03 Location: NSW Age/Gender: 52  | | | | When I lived in sydney only ever saw rbbs on the property but there were browns up the road about km where it was drier. One brown did come down to our place one day....it was hungry looking for food. Soon moved on its way when it realised my blue tongues were too big for it = it was circling the aviary where my I kept the blueys. I took the blueys inside for a few days.
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10-Jan-07, 09:48 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: QLD | | | | They will both eat each other, although rbbs tend to be a bit more canabilistc than browns, but they have both been known to eat each other, so realy its a myth.
Alot of the traveling herp displays would always say this, mainly to stop people killing redbellies. |
10-Jan-07, 10:22 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Hunter Valley, NSW | | | | yeh i know first hand its false too, cause i can go out my back door and probably see both browns and red bellies, have em out the back all the time. |
10-Jan-07, 06:01 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Central coast Age: 22 | | | | Thanks heaps. The only thing i could think of was that they may share the same prey there for making it hard for the two species to live together.
Id say you would be right with the RBBS True blue so instead they go after the brown but they think just because a snake is brown it makes it deadly which is not the case.
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