WHat snake is it?

[garyjoh]

G'day
We had a small snake around the house today, it bolted before we could snap a pic of it though.
It was about 1 1/2 feet long no more the 1inch thick , grey body with black rings all along the body, had a blackish head and around it's neck it had a redish tinge.
Bummer I didn't get a picture but it took off after the dog noticed it.
Cheers
Gary

 

[-Peter]

death adder, tiger, young brown, Stephen's banded,

 

[redbellybite]

could it have looked like this?

 

[Casey]

Here is a young brown, they come with black rings on the body as well



Did it look like that?

 

[mysnakesau]

What snake is that RBB? Tree snake? Or young brown? Don't really look like a brown but I really have no idea. Might look him up see if I can pick him before you reply

 

[hodges]

What snake is that RBB? Tree snake? Or young brown? Don't really look like a brown but I really have no idea. Might look him up see if I can pick him before you reply

Keelback

 

[krefft]

It's just so obvious..if you can't work it out from all those clues I'm not going to tell you.

 

[mysnakesau]

keelback? I just found a photo of a keelback . Looks more like him than a pop-eyed tree snake.

 

[hodges]

keelback?

Yes, the snake RBB uploaded is a keel back often mistaken for a rough scaled snake but i do believe a keel back has a loreal scale and a roughie doesn't ?

 

[mysnakesau]

Wow, they are very similar. What is a loreal scale?

 

[DanTheMan]

Tiger

 

[garyjoh]

yep Casey the head looked exactly like that, big black band and the redish bit....guess it was a baby brown, what an aggressive little buggar it was too!!!
Thanks guys

 

[redbellybite]

well YES the eastern brown juvies are often little agro buggers ...and Kath it is a keelback ,the loreal scale which you can see in the head shot is the scale in the middle between the eye and the nasal,elapids do not have such a scale ...Kath get to know your loreal scale as this may help you on a callout ...keelbacks and rough scale do quiet often get mistaken and sadly harmless keelbacks are killed ,and dangerous rough scales are handled thinking they are harmless ...better not touch any snakes unless you have a fair idea what your handling .....Kathy I always carry a magnifying glass in my snake bag ,cause on a tiny keelback its hard to see the loreal and dont wanna make that mistake of being wrong ...baby venomous snakes especially the "dangerously venomous "snakes can give you the same punch as the adult ,just because it is small and you think it has a tiny mouth ,and cant get it open enough to bite you ,WRONG, it only has to scratch you with 1 fang ,tiny little scratch and you could end up in hospital on life support..that baby keelback I rescued,the guy Igot it off, didnt know wether it was dangerous or not ,he had been handling it and his justification was "its to small to bite me "..lucky it turned out to be just a keelback now

 

[Casey]

Sweet, I have been picking up heaps of these guys lately.

Here is the banded type

 

[geckoman1985]

asian house gecko in decise as a keal back lol