Snakes & Ladders ... pls help identify

[Linus]

Can you (or someone) elaborate on that please pp?

[Warren]

My wild python has returned again (after a few months absence) so it appears .... found some more skin around the mango tree again. This time the sheds are from the tail end.

On another matter, anyone know how to get rid of possums? I'm sick of them deficating and peeing all over the place. Their pee really stinks. Seems like the python hasn't exterminated the possums.

cheers
W

[Surfcop24]

Cant help with getting rid of the Possums, but just to let you know I have a mate at work, he lives near Alex Hills or Capalaba..... he was telling me the other day he heard a commotion (spelling?) outside the other night. he went outside to see a carpet had gotten into his Cockatoo cage and had wrapped itself around his Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. He knew there wasnt much he could do as he knew the bird would be dead if he did finally get the snake off (without being bitten). So went back inside and went to sleep, expecting to have a fat caged python in the morning. Nope, it had squeezed back out of the cage and gone back to its merry hiding spot in the creekside bush behind his place.

## So there are wild Carpets around the Brisbane area.... And Big ones.....

[Warren]

Hi folks

I thought you might interested to know I finally found the elusive wild carpet snake that had been lurking in my garden awhile ago. I saw him lying on the road infront of my house early Thurs morning after I had dropped my kids off at school. At first I thought it was a large stick until I saw it move! The penny dropped...I realised it was the carpet that had been leaving it's skin in my tropical garden. I managed to corrall him into a large bin to get him off the road. This is one lucky snake because I live in the inner city. I estimate him to be approx. 2 metres long.
My kids were surprised when I showed them what I had caught. We released him this morning in bushland.

[Mrs Mac]

we get green tree snakes around my parents place all the time, infact i was playing with a hatchling that fell out of a palm tree the other day. good to see you found your mystery snake!

[Wrasse]

Nice looking carpet there, well fleshed.

[MoreliaMatt]

very nice! good find.... i would have released him back into your mango tree and put a hide box up there for him to live in! hehe keep tthe posums at bay

[Aussie Python Lover]

thats one BIG beast there warren my coastal will be like that in a couple yrs yay cant wait

[mines bigger]

wow nice snake i would love to have one of those in my backyard

[Tatelina]

Hehe how cute are your kids! Thanks for sharing and keeping us updated!
It would be a mixed blessing to have wild animals that size in your backgarden.. I certainly wouldn't want my cockatoo going a miss! :S

[Warren]

Originally Posted by MoreliaMatt

very nice! good find.... i would have released him back into your mango tree and put a hide box up there for him to live in! hehe keep tthe posums at bay

Yeah, the thought had crossed my mind because I really dislike possums because of the mess, smell, and fruit and flower damage they make. But, I thought the snake may crawl out onto the road again or into neighbours yards who may kill it... if not the neighbours then their dogs and cats would probably attack it. I also thought of putting him in my roof, but, my wife put her foot down and demanded that it's her or the snake!!

The carpet was happy to slither on its merry way up a big fig tree when we released him yesterday.....the bushland area is full of flying foxes so he should be very happy there.

My kids miss the snake. They want me to get them a baby pet snake to keep in a tank. I'm ok with it, they just have to work on their mum with the idea now! Will let you know how we go. How large do children pythons grow and how much time and expense is involved in keeping one? I am also thinking of getting a turtle for my pond. Will a turtle stay put or will it wander? Will my fish survive with a turtle?

[Wrasse]

Originally Posted by Warren

My kids miss the snake. They want me to get them a baby pet snake to keep in a tank. I'm ok with it, they just have to work on their mum with the idea now! Will let you know how we go. How large do children pythons grow and how much time and expense is involved in keeping one? I am also thinking of getting a turtle for my pond. Will a turtle stay put or will it wander? Will my fish survive with a turtle?

Childrens Pythons can grow to about 1.5 metres. When you get a baby, there is the initial startup expense, which includes the little snake, $200ish, a click clack (plastic lunchbox) $5ish and a low wattage heat cord $30ish. Plus an assortment of plastic or cardboard objects for it to hide under/in, like light bulb packets and small plastic lids, and a little container for water (rat the kitchen cupboard for a little jar lid for that).

When larger, the snake will graduate to a 'formal' enclosure and this can be worth as much as you want to pay for it for it's chosen display place. A converted cabinet with time and effort lovingly spent, $200 for a custom made snake home or throw the dollars around and pick up a piece of furniture, craftingly made to house both snake and the odd treasure and designed to have the wife screaming if you touch it's gleaming surface.

A turtle will eat your fish and a turtle will wander if the pond is not adequately fenced.

Let us know how you go.

[Wrasse]

Whoops....

I forgot to mention the little $5 bag of mice in her freezer...

[cement]

Try getting a look at it of a nitetime, just go out with atorch every now and again. Hopefully youll spot it then get some photos!!!

[cement]

Forget last post. i a bit tired and didnt read all Tell you what though NICE snake