Reptile World Serpentarium pics!

[ratsncorns]

Yesterday myself, Robbie (RobbiesCornField), Nanci, Katie (ArpeggioAngel), Joe (CaptBogart), Craig(Cflaguy), Craig's wife and cute little daughter, all went to the Serpentarium in St. Cloud FL (south of Orlando). It was soooo much fun! As a first-timer there was so much to see.

The first thing you see as you go into the exhibits is a huge pond filled with turtles! Mostly red-eared sliders, but if you look closely enough, there is a huge snapping turtle in there!

Softshell turtle!!

In the same pen, they also have an area where there were bunches of box turtles and tortoises...

Turtle sex!! Hey, threes a crowd!

As you walk to the back of the turtle pen, there is another pond, but it houses one HUGE alligator, his girlfriend, and their one baby. I only managed pictures of the big boy though. I only took pictures of his good side, because apparently one if his eyes was shot out with a BB gun..

Running for his afternoon snack! It was so cool to watch him run... they are so fast!

After spending some time with the turtles and gators, we went to the snake exhibits... yay!



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[ratsncorns]

Since I took so many pics of the snakes, I am just going to list them.

Cottonmouth

Cottonmouth (juvenile)

GTP

Black and White Spitting Cobra

Cuban Boa

Cantil

Our friend, the corn snake

Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnakes

Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake

Prairie Rattlesnake

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[ratsncorns]

Indigo

Rainbow Boas

More boas!

Burms....MINE!

Red Diamond Rattlesnakes

West African Green Mamba

Black Mamba

Black-tail Rattlesnake

Canebrake Rattlesnake

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[ratsncorns]

Taipan

Canebrake x Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

Suphin's Cobra

At noon, they had a venom show where they milked several species of snakes for us to watch. It was wicked cool! We even watched them milk Coral snakes! I watched more than I took pictures, but I had to take pictures of these guys!!

Monocled Cobra

Albino (SQUEEEE Robbie!)

More Indigo pics!

Nanci and Katie

Joe and Robbie

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[ratsncorns]

Last post!

Craig and his daughter

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Hope you liked the pics!! They turned out better than I thought they would. Now Katie just needs to post hers!

This is definitely one good part of living in Florida... the get togethers are awesome!

 

[tricksterpup]

Since I took so many pics of the snakes, I am just going to list them.

ATB

I have a hard time telling the 2 apart but I believe its either an Emerald Tree boa or a Green Tree Python.

i bet if it was listed as a boa.. its an ETB.

 

[tricksterpup]

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That is the look of Mine.

 

[RobbiesCornField]

THERE'S MY BUDDIES!!!!!!!!! I'm still going "AWWWWW" at the adorableness of that young albino monocled. It was so evilly cute!!! And I wanted to steal that indigo... badly...

That is the look of Mine.

Can you tell I didn't want to give it back? He went to put it away when they were going to start the venom show. I volunteered to hold it, when Katie said...

They probably want someone who's not a flight risk.

:grin01:

 

[ratsncorns]

I have a hard time telling the 2 apart but I believe its either an Emerald Tree boa or a Green Tree Python.

i bet if it was listed as a boa.. its an ETB.

Oops!! Thanks for catching that. I was rushing LOL. I finally manged to plug in my laptop so now I can make edits haha

 

[ratsncorns]

THERE'S MY BUDDIES!!!!!!!!! I'm still going "AWWWWW" at the adorableness of that young albino monocled. It was so evilly cute!!! And I wanted to steal that indigo... badly...



Can you tell I didn't want to give it back? He went to put it away when they were going to start the venom show. I volunteered to hold it, when Katie said...

:grin01:

I think they knew by the look in your eyes and how you kissed it that if they let you hold it, they were NOT getting it back LOL

 

[RobbiesCornField]

I think they knew by the look in your eyes and how you kissed it that if they let you hold it, they were NOT getting it back LOL

Naaaaaaaaaah... I'd have just held him hostage until they gave me one of his babies. :grin01:

 

[Tula_Montage]

I have a hard time telling the 2 apart but I believe its either an Emerald Tree boa or a Green Tree Python.

i bet if it was listed as a boa.. its an ETB.

It's 100% a chondro (green tree python) And it looks to be a sorong type. ETB's are characterised by a huge head which is rather bulbous compared to the slender head of a chondro, a deeper green colouration, no blue (instead it's white) and lovely yellow colouration down their flanks depending on the locale.

Brilliant pictures Angela. I love the fact you all wore snakie related t-shirts!

 

[dwyn127]

Nice pics Angela!

Here's what I think happened...

 

[Nanci]

They shackled Robbie to the bench before the guy would hand the snake over...

 

[Kokopelli]

The pic with the two burmese actually annoyed me. Who puts 2 huge constrictors in the same cage and than throws a rat in?! that could end in so many different ways...

aside from that, lovely pics

 

[Nanci]

Actually, there were three burms in there. The guy tong-fed the normal, and then gave each albino a rat. (FK) The normal took his and wrapped it and started feeding. The far-away albino ignored his. The close-by albino was not interested in his rat, but went to check out the rat of the normal. Which could have ended badly, but the normal was quite adamant about whose rat it was and was placing his body between himself and the other snake to protect his rat while he swallowed it. But yes, we all wondered what they would do if the albino succeeded in getting a bite on the normal's rat.

 

[Nanci]

The whole place looked very freshened-up. Nicely painted, clean, a bunch of new hides and climbing trees in the vivs.

 

[CrousesCorns]

That is a great place! We went there last April while on vacation with our friends.

 

[diamondlil]

Lovely photos, thanks for sharing!

 

[Cflaguy]

It was nice to meet....

Angela. I'm glad you and Robbie had a good time. I'm also glad the camera didn't break after you took my pic; Kenzie must have balanced us out preventing any damage.
Great pics BTW. The snake you forgot is the Cantil. As far as the Burmese feeding, the intern there should have stayed to monitor. George will correct him.
Outstanding catch of Peete chasing his food.