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Gorgeous snek!  My always frugal father bought a single wide in a wooded trailer park a few miles from campus. (I think he bought it for 5K for my older brother to live in, and when I went to UF, I was the next resident.  After I graduated, he sold it for 5K. )

Anyway, when I exited the trailer to bike to campus I was startled to see a 36 inch coral snake lounging in between the spokes of the wheel of my bike.    I put him in an ice chest until I returned from class. I gave him to a friend who had a python, who traded it to a serpentarium (for venom extraction) for a whole bunch of rodents for his python.

That was as big a coral snake as I’ve ever seen.  Just beautiful. 

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33 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

are they the same species in florida that we get here?  

 

Professional herpetologists spend their entire careers arguing over questions like this.

I have no idea what the official answer to your question is. I would guess no.

 

edit: google tron say different species. Probably due to Mississippi river separating the two populations. 

 

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There is apparently a bit of a dispute about whether the Texas coral is the same species, but generally the Florida coral snake or eastern coral snake has a range that stops at the Mississippi river, and everything west of there would be the Texas Coral snake.   

i’ve heard that the eastern coral snakes are slightly smaller.    Which makes that 36 inch snek all the more impressive

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On 5/12/2025 at 10:50 PM, NorthLoop said:

I think a coral would be my least amount of fear while seeing a Texas venomous snek. I grew up walking past copperheads in east TX so I'm used to them. They're pretty damn docile but fuck you can never see them. Cottonmouths can suck my dick. Every time I see a bullshit fb video about how they aren't aggressive I just wanna pull those fuckers back to my childhood and teenage years. Yes maybe they were just being curious but they still would've bitten me and they like to get danger close. 

And in the 43 years I've lived in Texas, including spending countless summers on our ranch in Jack County, I have never seen a rattler in the wild. I've heard them a hundred times, but never seen one. Hell we have plenty of posts every year on our neighborhood fb page about them showing up in garages and shit. Still never seen one. 

I'm 45 and can say the same.  I've been hunting, fishing, hiking, playing golf, and pretty much living for the outdoors my entire life.  I grew up in South Texas, I've lived in a very rural area for the last 20+ years, and I've owned a ranch in the Western Hill Country for the last decade.  I've never once come upon a rattlesnake by myself.  I've had employees find them in our warehouse.  I've been hunting with buddies when they've spotted them.  And, I've dispatched a few that others have come upon.  But, I've never happened on one in the wild.  Copperhead, Coral, and Cottonmouth... yes.  All three many times.  But, never a Rattler.  

I figure that means I'll catch one in the calf while dove hunting in the very near future.

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1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

snake color palette matches the clothing of the course official. Or should I say the clothing of the course official matches the snake. 

 

snake people, what the hell kind of snake is that? Indigo?

Eastern rat snake

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1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

snake people, what the hell kind of snake is that? Indigo?

 

It looked more ratty to me. My quick-shot cam doesn’t quite capture real color representation off the projector very well. Typically makes it more red heavy than what’s on the screen. 

Was black with some minimal white markings.

It’s in about the last hour/half hour of the early second round ESPN broadcast that can be rewatched now. 

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Been in our house in SW Austin for almost 13 years. On our property I've seen 10-12 rattlers, two corral, one big bull, one coachwhip and a bunch of rat snakes. The rattlers always scare the shit out of me.

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