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Thread: Need A Snake ID

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    Need A Snake ID

    Took this today. Sorry for the bad photo.

    Anyone have an ID? Anyone?
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    Re: Need A Snake ID

    Just a guess....and I'm mostly likely wrong but when I first saw this I thought it was a Coral Snake:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_snake
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    Re: Need A Snake ID

    Coral are much smaller and have Red on Yellow colors.

    This is probably a King Snake.

    (Red on Black Friendly Jack, Red on Yellow Kill a Fellow)
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    Re: Need A Snake ID

    scarlet kingsnake
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    Re: Need A Snake ID

    Quote Originally Posted by cyberlord
    Coral are much smaller and have Red on Yellow colors.

    This is probably a King Snake.

    (Red on Black Friendly Jack, Red on Yellow Kill a Fellow)
    That was my second guess!

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    Re: Need A Snake ID

    Thank you all. I couldn't decide if it was a milk snake or a scarlet kingsnake.

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