unidentified snake??

[AllThingsReptile]

ok uh about a year and a half ago me and two mates were down at the murray (albury/wodonga) and we saw this bright orange snake, it wasnt very big, about corn snake size and when we went to get a better look it took off..

we thought it may be an escaped smuggled corn snake but it was down the river??

any info or sighting of the same sort of thing would be great, or if anyone knows of a snake thats orange and lives in north east vic/southern NSW..
id never thought about asking about it on here till now.. "derp derp" *facepalm*

cheers-seb

 

[AllThingsReptile]

come on....seriously no-one??

 

[mysnakesau]

I don't of any Australian Snakes that are bright orange. Check out the latest Reptile dictionary. You might find something in there. But I have heard that the likes of corn snakes are taking up residence in certain areas in the wild. Not a good thing as they breed so easy and now forcing our Australian snakes to compete for food.

 

[ShaunMorelia]

Did it have any sort of patterning or any other colours?

 

[carbs]

yes i have seen corn snakes in the wild..dwn in syd when i lived there so they are around unfortunately

 

[Jonno from ERD]

It wouldn't have been a Corn Snake. Chances are it was either a Tiger Snake or an Eastern Brown Snake.

Here's some examples -

 

[richoman_3]

little whip snake ? Museum Victoria: Little Whip Snake
i found 2 on saturday

 

[AllThingsReptile]

It wouldn't have been a Corn Snake. Chances are it was either a Tiger Snake or an Eastern Brown Snake.

Here's some examples -

ahh yeh it was the first pic..almost certainly, are those natural morphs,local colourations or just random freaks?? coz ive never seen an EB like that, a couple of pics of the same sort of colouring in tigers though, but it was a lot slimmer than a tiger so i think it was an EB

 

[Jonno from ERD]

G'day mate,

These are just rare colour forms, nothing to do with locality or line breeding.

 

[Elapidae1]

I don't of any Australian Snakes that are bright orange. Check out the latest Reptile dictionary. You might find something in there. But I have heard that the likes of corn snakes are taking up residence in certain areas in the wild. Not a good thing as they breed so easy and now forcing our Australian snakes to compete for food.

I know locality is wrong but I thought I would show them because of colour
N calonotus, S bertholdi, S semifasciatus, N bimaculatus

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[numchacar]

eastern brown for sure see them all the time here in wodonga

 

[mysnakesau]

We do have lots of orange snakes I went and checked out my "dictionary". Some are gorgeous.

 

[$NaKe PiMp]

i would forget all about this snake as it is pointless trying to work out what it was

 

[-Peter]

Its an orange, OP got shape wrong.