Had a visitor tonight.

[RdKill]

Sorry...worked a 12 hour night shift last night...and another tonight. I turn my phone off at work. Anyway...It is indeed a "mudsnake" (Farancia abacura) pretty little feller. You can NOT get them to bite you. They are probably the most docile snake on the planet.

 

[Bear44]

Sorry...worked a 12 hour night shift last night...and another tonight. I turn my phone off at work. Anyway...It is indeed a "mudsnake" (Farancia abacura) pretty little feller. You can NOT get them to bite you. They are probably the most docile snake on the planet.

I love the ODT. There are real experts in almost everything. Thanks for jumping in.

 

[rtross]

Sorry...worked a 12 hour night shift last night...and another tonight. I turn my phone off at work. Anyway...It is indeed a "mudsnake" (Farancia abacura) pretty little feller. You can NOT get them to bite you. They are probably the most docile snake on the planet.

I must correct my misguided liberal friend:
The MOST docile snake on the planet is a dead snake.

 

[Bear44]

I must correct my misguided liberal friend:
The MOST docile snake on the planet is a dead snake.

Give it a few days in the sun. Then not so much.

 

[SKEET25]

Looks like one of them coppermouth rattleheads!!!!!!

 

[RdKill]

Looks like one of them coppermouth rattleheads!!!!!!

It looks nothing of the sort, It couldn't be more harmless if it was dead...unless you happen to resemble an amphiuma or a mudpuppy

Oddly though, coppermouths and cottonheads do exist, though not likely in the wild. Since copperheads and cottonmouths are of the same species "agkistrodon", they can be cross bred into hybrids and that's what they are being called in the reptile trade depending on which animal was the sire, the sire given the first part of the name. It's tricky to get them to breed but it does happen.