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

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Originally Posted by Wizill

it also could've been a gaboon viper.

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LMAO! Coulda been!

Skull pattern on the head maybe? Most carpet pythons have this.

Yeah...but would someone be worried about a carpet getting too big to handle? How big do they get?

Coastal Carpets can get over 10 feet.

Coastals can get 10'+ - bigger than the JCPs.

DOH! David you PWNT me :P

LOL ;)

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Coastals can get 10'+ - bigger than the JCPs.

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Cool...learn something new every day!

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DOH! David you PWNT me :P

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LOL! Haven't seen that phrase in awhile...not since I laid off the gaming board I used to frequent! :P

I use it for dramatic effect only - i dont ascribe to the leet speak . . . but like your previous experiences I run into it often enough - though anymore I barely have time for a single game. Hell it is sheer BLISS to be on a forum where punctuation and capitalization are used at all.

NERF TEH RETICS!!

maybe you can do a picutre google search for:
Reticulated python
Burmese python
African rock python
Scrub (amathystine) python
Indian Python (Python Molorus Molorus)
Anaconda (boa)

yeah I remember coastals, and diamonds get larger for the carpet species.
Thanks
Rusty

http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/skee...orum/skull.jpg theres this - but it seems such an anomaly for a blood.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Hell it is sheer BLISS to be on a forum where punctuation and capitalization are used at all.

NERF TEH RETICS!!

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AMEN! To that - thank you BPnet forum members for being the most grammatically correct posters on the internet. Haha. (most of the time)

Whut iz yu gyz talkkin abowt? I lyke grammar crakkers wit my ice creem!!! :D HHEHEHEHEHEHE

LOL grammar crakkers wit ice creem

You blew it by spelling "grammar" correctly.

;)

That's what I was thinking, too, Smulkin! ;) Should have been "grammer."

id like to have a little off subject with my ice cream :P