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#76
#76
Coug said:
Yes! Not to be confused with the Scarlet King snake.

Just remember if red and yellow are touching it's poisonous.
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You are correct and I started to include that disclaimer but my way of looking at it is why take a chance, if it looks like that in any combination get the hell away from it. The coral snake venom is the deadliest in this country.
 
#78
#78
hmanvolfan said:
Poisonous snakes in this country have triangular heads with a small indentation, or pit, on top of their heads and are thusly called pit vipers. Non poisonous snakes heads are the same width as their body with the exception being the coral snake which is in the western states and can easily be identified by their colorful bands.
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Steer clear of this guy if you see one.
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Coral snake is in Florida as well
 
#80
#80
hmanvolfan said:
You are correct and I started to include that disclaimer but my way of looking at it is why take a chance, if it looks like that in any combination get the hell away from it. The coral snake venom is the deadliest in this country.
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I'm with you hman! Even if it's just a black rat snake I don't mess with them period.
 
#83
#83
Escape Goat said:
Coral snake is in Florida as well
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Yep maybe Trump will deport them :)

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A bite from the notoriously venomous eastern coral snake at first seems anticlimactic. There is little or no pain or swelling at the site of the bite, and other symptoms can be delayed for 12 hours. However, if untreated by antivenin, the neurotoxin begins to disrupt the connections between the brain and the muscles, causing slurred speech, double vision, and muscular paralysis, eventually ending in respiratory or cardiac failure.
 
#84
#84
joevol33 said:
My kids asked for a pet turtle the other day. I told them catch one!
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We bought our kids a red slider we named miss wiggles years ago at Countryside mall in Clearwater. When we moved to Bama one year we put her little aquarium out on the porch one morning because it was stinking and needed cleaned. We told our girls to clean it out while we were gone to town. Anyways the girls didn't and forgot about her being outside. When I let the dogs out the next morning I look over and there is miss wiggles in the middle of three inch thick block of ice..frozen solid. Of course we think, Oh crap! The turtles dead! So I take the block of ice out of the aquarium, and put it in sink with hot water, and stop up the sink. I am in the living room watching tv and hear a weird scratching sound coming from the bathroom. I go in and there is wiggles swimming around in the sink like nothing ever happened. :) Had new respect for the toughness of turtles after that.
 
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#85
#85
Ulysees E. McGill said:
We bought our kids a red slider we named miss wiggles years ago at Countryside mall in Clearwater. When we moved to Bama one year we put her little aquarium out on the porch one morning because it was stinking and needed cleaned. We told our girls to clean it out while we were gone to town. Anyways the girls didn't and forgot about her being outside. When I let the dogs out the next morning I look over and there is miss wiggles in the middle of three inch thick block of ice..frozen solid. Of course we think, Oh crap! The turtles dead! So I take the block of ice out of the aquarium, and put it in sink with hot water, and stop up the sink. I am in the living room watching tv and hear a weird scratching sound coming from the bathroom. I go in and there is wiggles swimming around in the sink like nothing ever happened. :) Had new respect for the toughness of turtles after that.
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That is cool!
 
#86
#86
Freak said:
Mine is a pretty small pool. Lol.

I actually wonder if the turtle meant to get in the water or just kinda fell in. And I wonder if he's been in it before. I really have no idea how he would get himself out.
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He fell in 100% without a doubt. You won't typically find Eastern Box Turtles in water. You generally find them in open fields, pastures, grasslands, and woodlands. I've probably came across 100 or more of them in my lifetime. Only once have I found one in an actual body of water. It was in a small portion of non-flowing, still standing water that had remained left over in a dry creek bed.

Although it's rare, at times they will find a small, shallow body of water to "soak" in. This is only done out of desperation when needing to cool off very quickly. Think in terms of simply sitting in a puddle momentarily. Just long enough for their body temperature to go back down to a normal level. But more times than not, they won't choose an actual body of water. Unless it's basically their equivalent to a turtle emergency, they will just about always burrow under a damp log, wet dirt, moist pile of leaves, or other similar vegetation instead. Really just anything that has some moisture to it. They are also known to completely submerge in mud for multiple days in a row during extremely hot periods of time.

They are definitely more suited for drier terrain than water. That much is certain. They would easily drown in a larger body of water, especially if it is moving/flowing.

There are 4 recognized species of Box Turtles. There are about 15-16 different types of subspecies found all through out North America though. Only one (Coahuilan Box Turtle) is found permanently living in and around a body of water. They actually spend 90% of their time in water. They are usually found in marshes, or springs. They are endangered, and are only found in Mexico. It's safe to say that you won't find them anywhere in TN. It doesn't look like your typical Box Turtle were all use to seeing in TN either. They don't have yellow on their shells.

Ohh yeah, and don't ask me how I know so much about turtles for nothing. :)
 
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#87
#87
did you take a nail and write your kids name or initials on the underside of the shell ? that way you will know if it is the same one you keep seeing

and don't scrape it so much you poke thru either :)
 
#88
#88
hmanvolfan said:
You are correct and I started to include that disclaimer but my way of looking at it is why take a chance, if it looks like that in any combination get the hell away from it. The coral snake venom is the deadliest in this country.
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unlike the pit vipers, their fangs are in the back of their mouths so they have to chew on you sort of like a gila monster, not that I am about to test the theory.

There was an urban legend in JAX that a nun walked away from the interstate to answer nature's call and got bit by a coral snake in the tenders which in turn allowed the poison to be introduced quickly and resulted in a quick death.
 
#89
#89
I killed what I would later find out was a corn snake the other day. It had crawled into my siding with its head poking out right next to my back door. I shot it with a bb gun. I generally won't kill snakes, but I couldn't tell what kind it was.
 
#90
#90
In Oak Ridge, one day my old man picked up the newspaper that was on the floor by his bed and there was a ringneck curled up underneath. I know they aren't poisonous but it freaked me out so bad that a snake could get in our house.

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