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What snake is that ?

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Created by Macroscien > 9 months ago, 17 Dec 2020
Macroscien
QLD, 6791 posts
18 Dec 2020 12:21AM
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I found this creature yesterday hanging by my shed. What is it?


Rails
QLD, 1370 posts
18 Dec 2020 4:54AM
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That is the Morelia spilota or carpet python - good for rats, mice..
and rabbits

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/snake-sinks-teeth-into-rabbit-as-surfing-great-posts-photo-20201217-p56ohb.html

tarquin1
931 posts
18 Dec 2020 2:59AM
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Just beat me too it. Its been a while since I lived in Oz but that looks like a carpet snake. Its not a proper ozzie shed if it doesn't have a carpet snake in the roof!

evlPanda
NSW, 9202 posts
18 Dec 2020 11:26AM
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Trouser snake.

HotBodMon
NSW, 573 posts
18 Dec 2020 3:58PM
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evlPanda said..
Trouser snake.


takes 9 months for the swelling to go down from that bugger

SarahSimm
7 posts
18 Dec 2020 6:17PM
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gush, I hate snakes
sorry

japie
NSW, 6682 posts
18 Dec 2020 11:18PM
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Rails said..
That is the Morelia spilota or carpet python - good for rats, mice..
and rabbits

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/snake-sinks-teeth-into-rabbit-as-surfing-great-posts-photo-20201217-p56ohb.html


And guinea pigs.







Haircut
QLD, 6480 posts
20 Dec 2020 11:04PM
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they looove pierogi

Macroscien
QLD, 6791 posts
21 Dec 2020 12:33AM
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Haircut said..
they looove pierogi


or looks like a snack for some:
edition.cnn.com/2020/12/20/us/florida-pythons-eat-study-trnd/index.html

Logonso
1 posts
4 Mar 2021 10:37PM
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Relax bro, it's a dog. It's a damn snake, and it doesn't matter what breed, it's a snake and you have to be worried about it not on forums!

OXMAN
NSW, 16 posts
5 Mar 2021 7:57PM
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If I got I would it eat the rats, but not the chooks?

AdCornish65
6 posts
16 Mar 2021 4:15AM
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Are you seriously interested in what kind of snake it is, and not how to get rid of it? You are either a very brave person, or you don't realize the danger.

UncleBob
NSW, 1199 posts
16 Mar 2021 10:50AM
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AdCornish65 said..
Are you seriously interested in what kind of snake it is, and not how to get rid of it? You are either a very brave person, or you don't realize the danger.


Yep, those carpet pythons sure are deadly dangerous !!






NOT.

kiterboy
2614 posts
16 Mar 2021 8:12AM
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UncleBob said..

AdCornish65 said..
Are you seriously interested in what kind of snake it is, and not how to get rid of it? You are either a very brave person, or you don't realize the danger.



Yep, those carpet pythons sure are deadly dangerous !!






NOT.


I've been told many times that my carpet python is pretty deadly.

UncleBob
NSW, 1199 posts
16 Mar 2021 12:48PM
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kiterboy said..

UncleBob said..


AdCornish65 said..
Are you seriously interested in what kind of snake it is, and not how to get rid of it? You are either a very brave person, or you don't realize the danger.




Yep, those carpet pythons sure are deadly dangerous !!






NOT.



I've been told many times that my carpet python is pretty deadly.


Boasting again?

kiterboy
2614 posts
16 Mar 2021 12:25PM
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Just relaying the facts ;)

beachandbush
NSW, 405 posts
16 Mar 2021 3:26PM
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Upset this one trying to get him off the road.

No manners.
Ar$ehole wanted me.

Okay I grabbed his tail cause he weren't moving.

He left without incident.


LOL



Tamble
194 posts
17 Mar 2021 6:28AM
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They are just about the only legal way of removing a possum permanently from your roof.
They work a treat too and clean up the rats while they're at it.

We don't mind having a couple in our roof; although you need to warn the tradies.

crustysailor
VIC, 869 posts
17 Mar 2021 12:52PM
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nah, you just need some imagination.

A guy at work threw a handful of dog food on to the neighbours roof a couple of times.
A few days later, no possums at his place.

GasHazard
303 posts
24 Mar 2021 9:29PM
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Macroscien said..

Haircut said..
they looove pierogi



or looks like a snack for some:
edition.cnn.com/2020/12/20/us/florida-pythons-eat-study-trnd/index.html


If they start eating them they'll start farming them no doubt.

I had a friend back in the day who lived like a hippy. He had a python and a possum living in his roof. The possum used to piss on the ceiling and the ceiling sagged above the stove. Possum piss seeped through the ceiling and dripped onto the stove. He put up with with it for 2 years then it stopped. The python ate the possum.

Macroscien
QLD, 6791 posts
25 Mar 2021 12:15AM
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GasHazard said..



Macroscien said..




Haircut said..
they looove pierogi






or looks like a snack for some:
edition.cnn.com/2020/12/20/us/florida-pythons-eat-study-trnd/index.html





If they start eating them they'll start farming them no doubt.

I had a friend back in the day who lived like a hippy. He had a python and a possum living in his roof. The possum used to piss on the ceiling and the ceiling sagged above the stove. Possum piss seeped through the ceiling and dripped onto the stove. He put up with with it for 2 years then it stopped. The python ate the possum.




That remind me exactly mine weekender where possum live in the roof space. Snake is crawling near by but never can get the possum. But one day I saw huge monitor ( reptile not a tv screen) carrying dead possum found under the house ( the other one because that on the roof wake up always in the middle of the night and make noise while walking on celling) .Now I have also plag of mice, catching 10 in mouse traps in one night.Funny that feed on kilos of best quality poison from Bunnings for no effect at all.

My next project could be:

Mark _australia
WA, 22089 posts
26 Mar 2021 6:22AM
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^^ a little cruel.
Spring based traps that immediately kill are humane. Of course can't do large numbers that way in a plague.
A .22 rifle with ratshot = effective and humane.



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