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Snake in fishtank/ID?
Figured everyone might find this interesting, sorry for the cross
post. - I got a frantic phone call yesterday from my girlfriend who said something about a snake in the fishtank. After I got her to calm down, the story went something like this: She had gone downstairs into her fathers fish room to feed the fish, and saw a tail sticking up from the water. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be an 18" snake curled up in 55 gallon sword tail tank. The really interesting part is this; the snake had to A) get in the house and into the finished basement. B) climb up a table of approx. 3 feet high. C) climb up into the 18 inch high tank. Here is a link to a picture, can anyone ID it for me? http://trains99.tripod.com/snake.html I know it's not poisonous, and I'm thinking some kind garter snake? I'm in SE Pennsylvania. Bob |
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Snake in fishtank/ID?
OH! MY GOSH! Yes, it looks like a garter snake and they will get in a pond and go after fish. And having had a snake slither happily into our downstairs familyroom while I was heading downstairs with a basket of laundry I can see this happening. I can soooooo commiserate! Ka30P http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...dors/home.html |
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Snake in fishtank/ID?
definatly a gartersnake, must have had a heck of a meal on the swordtails.
i have a couple for pets, i feed em feederfish. its strange how he managed to get into the tank tho. "Bob in PA" wrote in message ... Figured everyone might find this interesting, sorry for the cross post. - I got a frantic phone call yesterday from my girlfriend who said something about a snake in the fishtank. After I got her to calm down, the story went something like this: She had gone downstairs into her fathers fish room to feed the fish, and saw a tail sticking up from the water. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be an 18" snake curled up in 55 gallon sword tail tank. The really interesting part is this; the snake had to A) get in the house and into the finished basement. B) climb up a table of approx. 3 feet high. C) climb up into the 18 inch high tank. Here is a link to a picture, can anyone ID it for me? http://trains99.tripod.com/snake.html I know it's not poisonous, and I'm thinking some kind garter snake? I'm in SE Pennsylvania. Bob |
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Snake in fishtank/ID?
"blove" wrote in message .. . definatly a gartersnake, must have had a heck of a meal on the swordtails. Confirm that, we have tons here. If I'm looking at the pic right, he's jus' a baby. |
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Snake in fishtank/ID?
"Bob in PA" wrote in message ... Figured everyone might find this interesting, sorry for the cross post. - I got a frantic phone call yesterday from my girlfriend who said something about a snake in the fishtank. After I got her to calm down, the story went something like this: She had gone downstairs into her fathers fish room to feed the fish, and saw a tail sticking up from the water. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be an 18" snake curled up in 55 gallon sword tail tank. The really interesting part is this; the snake had to A) get in the house and into the finished basement. B) climb up a table of approx. 3 feet high. C) climb up into the 18 inch high tank. Here is a link to a picture, can anyone ID it for me? http://trains99.tripod.com/snake.html I know it's not poisonous, and I'm thinking some kind garter snake? I'm in SE Pennsylvania. Bob gartersnake and he says "thank you for the fishies, yum". |
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Snake in fishtank/ID?
I grew up in Syracuse. Used to have those as pets. Gartersnakess love
fish. A bit rough on the swords! Jim "Bob in PA" wrote in message ... Figured everyone might find this interesting, sorry for the cross post. - I got a frantic phone call yesterday from my girlfriend who said something about a snake in the fishtank. After I got her to calm down, the story went something like this: She had gone downstairs into her fathers fish room to feed the fish, and saw a tail sticking up from the water. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be an 18" snake curled up in 55 gallon sword tail tank. The really interesting part is this; the snake had to A) get in the house and into the finished basement. B) climb up a table of approx. 3 feet high. C) climb up into the 18 inch high tank. Here is a link to a picture, can anyone ID it for me? http://trains99.tripod.com/snake.html I know it's not poisonous, and I'm thinking some kind garter snake? I'm in SE Pennsylvania. Bob |
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Snake in fishtank/ID?
"Bob in PA" wrote in message
... Figured everyone might find this interesting, sorry for the cross post. - I got a frantic phone call yesterday from my girlfriend who said something about a snake in the fishtank. After I got her to calm down, the story went something like this: She had gone downstairs into her fathers fish room to feed the fish, and saw a tail sticking up from the water. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be an 18" snake curled up in 55 gallon sword tail tank. The really interesting part is this; the snake had to A) get in the house and into the finished basement. B) climb up a table of approx. 3 feet high. C) climb up into the 18 inch high tank. Here is a link to a picture, can anyone ID it for me? http://trains99.tripod.com/snake.html I know it's not poisonous, and I'm thinking some kind garter snake? I'm in SE Pennsylvania. Bob That's a great story. I can't see the snake well enough to even try to identify it, but an Internet search showed plenty of snake/herps sites for PA. Sounds like a very enterprising snake. I hope you can give it a good home! Gail San Antonio TX |
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Snake in fishtank/ID?
In rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc Gail Futoran wrote:
I hope you can give it a good home! If it wasn't happy, it would have left by now. Warm, wet and a good supply of fresh food (until the swords are all gone. |
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Snake in fishtank/ID?
Sammy the snake has left the building and is on his way to a new home.
Before he left, I got some better pictures of him. http://trains99.tripod.com/snake.html These are scaled down, the originals are almost 5 megapixels big. If anyone wants them, I'll put them up on my page. Bob |
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