Some of you guys may already be familiar with this story but for everyone else here is what happened:
So I was at work the other day when I got a call from a regular customer saying he had a coral snake and wanted to know if anyone in the shop wanted it (if not they were going to keep it themselves and knowing they had never touched a hot before, I said I would take it for them). To make a long story short, the customer came in with his daughter who was carrying the snake in an extremely thin mesh bag. The bag was so thin in fact that you could see straight through it. To make matters worse, his daughter was supporting the snake so that he hands were wrapped around the body of the snake in the bag. I understand that they do not bite often but with no antivenin available would you really want to take that chance- let alone your grade school aged daughter? I quickly took it off of their hands and boxed it up in a more secure container and railed them as politely as possible for endangering their lives.
I kept the snake for about a week and attempted to feed it frogs, geckos, skinks, and snakes but after none of that worked, I decided to let it go after I grabbed some photos of it. enjoy.
This is why they are so hard to find in the wild. Even though I knew exactly where to look, I could not see it. This was not tall grass either.
So I was at work the other day when I got a call from a regular customer saying he had a coral snake and wanted to know if anyone in the shop wanted it (if not they were going to keep it themselves and knowing they had never touched a hot before, I said I would take it for them). To make a long story short, the customer came in with his daughter who was carrying the snake in an extremely thin mesh bag. The bag was so thin in fact that you could see straight through it. To make matters worse, his daughter was supporting the snake so that he hands were wrapped around the body of the snake in the bag. I understand that they do not bite often but with no antivenin available would you really want to take that chance- let alone your grade school aged daughter? I quickly took it off of their hands and boxed it up in a more secure container and railed them as politely as possible for endangering their lives.
I kept the snake for about a week and attempted to feed it frogs, geckos, skinks, and snakes but after none of that worked, I decided to let it go after I grabbed some photos of it. enjoy.
This is why they are so hard to find in the wild. Even though I knew exactly where to look, I could not see it. This was not tall grass either.
