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27-Nov-07, 12:20 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: Brisbane Gender:  | | |  Nice little surprise
I came home tonight after work. Did the usual routine of checking on my few rats out in the garage. They needed a top up of food, and as I was reaching in to grab a food dish out of one of the cages, I saw something moving in my peripheral vision, looked over and there's a wee snake sitting there ready to strike. Scared the crap out of me at first, I think I must have scared it too.
I'm not 100% certain what kind of snake it is, but from the brief look I got at it, I'm pretty sure it's a coastal. I was a little preoccupied getting it away from my rats than identifying it, but when I get a chance to get a few shots of it I'll post some. Nice looking snake though 
I'm just glad it didn't actually eat any of my rats, it was slender enough to fit through the bars to do so.. so if I'd arrived much later, I could've been down a few.
There's never really been many snakes around my place before, or if there are, it's few and far between.. though I guess now I've got a little colony of rats I might be seeing a few more of them around   |
27-Nov-07, 12:24 AM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: sydney n.s.w Gender: | | | | wow how cool,congrats on the new room mate,he will stick around now,cause he knows theres good tucker! lol |
27-Nov-07, 12:25 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Mornington Peninsula Gender: | | | | If it is dry where you are could be looking for water too |
27-Nov-07, 12:34 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: nowra/nsw Age/Gender: 26  | | | | Cool,but lucky the rats never ate it for lunch. |
27-Nov-07, 12:35 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Inkslinger  If it is dry where you are could be looking for water too | Could be, but it's rained within the last few days, and I doubt it'd be looking for just water when it was sitting right next to a cage with a rat in it and several more rats in very close proximity. |
27-Nov-07, 12:39 AM
| | Seller | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: sydney n.s.w Gender: | | | | yeh the snake was looking at having lunch on a big rat,then comming back dinner |
27-Nov-07, 12:43 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Brettix Cool,but lucky the rats never ate it for lunch. | My rats are only little still, would've given the snake a good bulge, though I reckon it could've gotten one down. |
27-Nov-07, 01:25 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | | Here's a photo my dad took just before I got it out of there.
Is it indeed a coastal? |
27-Nov-07, 01:27 PM
|  | Maccie Queen Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Gender: | | | | Where are you located llama???
Geez that's a nice snakie!!!!!
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27-Nov-07, 01:29 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mrsshep77 Where are you located llama???
Geez that's a nice snakie!!!!! | I'm in Brisbane suburbia, don't often see pretty snakes like this one around. |
27-Nov-07, 01:30 PM
|  | BRISBANE ENCLOSURES Sponsor | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane | | | Hybrid! 
Great looking animal.
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27-Nov-07, 01:30 PM
|  | LEHOOO ZE HURRRR ^_^ Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: herpin on the gold coast ;D Gender: | | | 
ITS sOO cUTE!!!!!
i want IT!
i wish i had visitors like that!
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27-Nov-07, 01:33 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JungleRob Hybrid!
Great looking animal. | What do you think it's a hybrid between? |
27-Nov-07, 01:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20 | | | | If you're in Brisbane suburbia it should be a coastal. But I have never seen one that pretty! |
27-Nov-07, 01:53 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Sydney | | | | Wow, nice Coastal.. Amazing colours. | | |
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