A challenge kinda

OK about 2 years ago a friend of mine showed me his snake it was kinda big and was eating adult rats it had a skull looking pattern on its back maybe a morph and he was getting rid of it because it was going to get to big for him to handle does anyone know what kinda snake this is. This is the snake that got me into snakes i wish i could have took it in myself.

Bout what size approximately? What was the base color and pattern color? Remember what the eyes looked like? Did it have pits?

Probly a burm. Their dorsal blotches mighta looked like a skull.

i can't believe it is anything to exotic something that is popular in the pet trade and i think it was like 5 feet when i saw it and if it was going to get much bigger then that then it had to be a big snake. and this was before i new anything about snakes so i didn't study it my memory isn't that good anyways.

Well, burms were and are extremely common and can have a somewhat varied pattern. If it were a retic, you would probably remember a more distinctly diamond-shaped or triangular pattern. Those are the only two really common snakes that would get too big for a single person to handle.

african rock python possibly?

Maybe...but those aren't very common compared to burms.

still coulda been one though :)

it also could've been a gaboon viper.

If it had a truncated triangle under it's eye it might have been a rock - though I haven't seen them with anything skull like I have seen pics of some with the pattern tending towards an X that might look like crossbones.

AfRock triangle (not the best angle) http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/bramm...es/nephbig.jpg

Or this blood? http://forum.kingsnake.com/corn/messages/69776.html