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Snake Trap

tradernick

tradernick

Just another Florida guy
Can anyone reccomend an effective snake trap? Bugspray.com has several sizes available, all same design. Is this a pretty standard trap or are there better ones? The woods behind my house is just to tempting. I want to see what I can catch and release.
Nick
 
I absolutely agree and would never use a glue trap. I'm considering purchasing a live wire "funnel" type trap. Something that won't harm them in any way whatsoever.
Nick
 
I'm thinking the same thing. Where I live I would assume there must be millions of snakes, but I've yet to find one and it's driving me crazy. I want to put out some sort of snake trap as well. Here's an arial view of my neighborhood in northeast florida and my backyard, there's about a half acre of woods like that behind me with trails to walk through, it leads up to a canal that is about 20 foot wide and 8 feet deep. Gotta be snakes in there right?

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I would suggest a 20oz bottle with the top cut off, flipped, and then set back inside the bottle. You should put a pinkie or something in there as bait.
 
To be honest, I wouldn't even suggest catching wild snakes, even to release them right away. They have parasites, and bites from a wild snakes are ten times more likeley to get infected. I would keep you distance and just look and take pictures.
 
Get some cheap plywood, get a landowner's permission, and lay them down in fields next to forests, next to streams, etc. Wait awhile and go back regularly to check for snakes living underneath.
 
Drewby07 said:
"ten times more likely to get infected"

Seriously? where do you get this stuff?
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Lets see:

7 wild snake bites, 3 infected

Bitten by Flame, and before I had him, other captive snakes, and have yet to get infected by them.

Snakes in the wild aren't eating mice that have been raised in plastic bins at TMF, they are eating mice that have been running all around, getting dirty and contracting diseases/germs etc. This makes the snakes more likely to transmit the diseases to you.

I figured a more detailed response would get the point across, but it's common sense.
 
I was more referring to the fact that you took an admittedly anecdotal opinion and stated it as fact. I agree with everything you said, but I don't think it's a hard and fast rule that it's "ten times more likely to get infected"
 
Checkerbelly said:
Get some cheap plywood, get a landowner's permission, and lay them down in fields next to forests, next to streams, etc. Wait awhile and go back regularly to check for snakes living underneath.
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That's probably the best idea. Maybe use some other materials as well (e.g., aluminum, "tin", etc.). Place these in locations with varying sun exposure.

I've been tempted to do this myself, but I have enough snakes INSIDE the house. ;)
 
I've actually done this where I work. I put out a couple pieces of sheet metal behind the building and I regularly find lizards under them.....enough to keep my lizard-eating snake happy.
 
I thought about a sheet of tin, placed so that part gets the FL sun and part of it stays in shade...I think I'll do that. I also like the bottle idea. No need to purchase a trap, it seems.
Nick
 
tradernick said:
I thought about a sheet of tin, placed so that part gets the FL sun and part of it stays in shade...I think I'll do that. I also like the bottle idea. No need to purchase a trap, it seems.
Nick
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I would set both up. The only problems with the tin sheet idea are:
1. The snake(s) would be alerted as soon as you removed the tin, making it harder to capture them
2. You would actually have to capture the snakes, where you don't even have to touch the snake using the bottle idea.
 
As I said - I've done the tin trick and it works wonderfully. You do have to be ready for what you might find when you lift it though.....one time I flipped my piece here to find a mouse...which promptly ran up my pants leg. I'm sure anyone watching would have had a good laugh.
 
Well, since the first post I've used the bottle, both with and without a pinkie as bait with no luck. I have TONS of anoles and frogs and geckos for that matter in my yard. A typical summer night will elicit about 4 frogs and 2 geckos on my bedroom window. Anoles are swarming during the day. There have GOT to be snakes out. I'm gonna try the plywood/tin idea next.

Thanks everybody.
 
If there is that much available food for snakes your baited traps are probably not even noticed. If I can eat a fresh anole without hunting I'm not going to try and dig a dead baby mouse out of a trap. But that's just me, I'm a little lazy sometimes.
 
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