r/snakes • u/Nujabezia • 8h ago
Wild Snake Photos and Questions - Not for ID Carpet Python having Dinner Spoiler
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r/snakes • u/Phylogenizer • May 12 '25
Hi everyone! I wanted to let you know that we're now going to redirect all Snake ID requests to the curated place for them, /r/whatsthissnake. As /r/snakes and /r/whatsthissnake have developed side by side we find ourselves in a position where we are running two parallel subreddits, but with slightly different rules. We hope is that this streamline into WhatsThisSnake will be gentle - we don't want a snake to go unidentified because we're learning how best to handle IDs. There is going to be a transition period where we still get a lot of ID requests here, so please do your part to kindly help !redirect people in need and by reporting jokes, misinformation and other problematic comments.
This spring Reddit is more popular than ever and it is hard for the moderation team to keep up. When I founded /r/whatsthissnake 12 years ago, with on average one request every day, I never imagined we'd have 150K members and 20k people a day browsing the subreddit. In the past, we've made a number of incremental changes that have been so helpful they have been instituted other places on Reddit, from introducing the term "Reliable Responder", to developing the bot and tweaking our community resources so that every Reliable Responder can choose to perform mod actions. We hope that these changes will allow us not only to maintain the level of quality provided but to reduce workload on the moderation team, because honestly, moderator burnout is a serious problem. They are doing this for free and you would no believe the abuse they receive here - not just from me, but from the users too. If you see a moderator or other flaired user in cleaning up a thread, espcially in these busy, snakey spring months in North America, throw em a thanks.
r/snakes • u/Phylogenizer • Mar 20 '26
It’s a fact of life that no matter how much context we provide to our posts, when someone sees something interesting, they want to imitate it. Each day /r/snakes puts around one hundred thousand impressionable people face to face with snake related images, text and ideas. Faced with this responsibility, and with an increasing number of recent, low quality posts concerning medically significant snakes, we have to choose the right level of content we allow.
Recent low quality posts concerning captive venomous care include improper use of personal protective equipment, poor quality/security housing, very inexperienced keepers asking (and receiving!) advice on how to keep and breed their first venomous snakes and straight up animal abuse reposted from social media. Many of these clearly rule-breaking posts are removed before you see them, but a growing number of posts are clearly low quality, irresponsible content but don’t explicitly violate the rules. Over the past three years the mods have debated a rule change and we have decided to only allow posts involving venomous snakes if they are from an accredited zoo or institution. In short - we’re going to remove posts involving the private care and ownership of medically significant snakes.
Many modern herpetology texts recommend against individual private ownership of medically significant snakes. We don’t take a stand on what anyone wants to do legally, ethically and with their own time, but we do have to regulate what is posted, shared and thus propagated here. In short, we don’t care what you do, but don’t post it here. Besides being a lighting rod for the low quality content discussed above, private ownership offers unique challenges that are better suited for an institutional or team setting. Snakes are escape artists as well as attractive nuisances and must be contained outside of personal residential spaces in secure, locking enclosures to prevent both snake egress and human ingress as well as secondarily in a sealed room or facility behind a windowed door with no items on the floor under which an escaped snake can hide or avoid detection. It takes a team to execute an envenomation plan and the cost of antivenom is beyond that of most private owners, has a short shelf life and when antivenom is borrowed from institutional stocks it puts those keepers at risk.
Zoos and institutions don’t always do it better, but the onus is on them to provide best practices in care. If we limit posts to places where a team of people works together to provide a standard of care, usually for the right reasons, we can limit what we propagate on the platform.
We do not recommend any other available subreddits as well-moderated sources of captive venomous keeping. The most popular places on social media dedicated to this are inundated with low quality posts and comments and even when they outright ban irresponsible behavior, examples of the low quality content we remove are highly upvoted, and content is often sensationalist, psychopathic or disturbing. Please don’t suggest a specific place in the comments of this post. We’re aware of the options and we’re choosing not to redirect or name other online spaces.
Posts on wild venomous species are still allowed as usual with a species name and a location, but please be sure to see Rule 6 (unchanged) on what amount of contact and PPE use we find acceptable for sharing online.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
r/snakes • u/Nujabezia • 8h ago
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r/snakes • u/Seanzee55 • 17h ago
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Out of the three balls I’ve owned, Hachi here just gets it. She loves to come out of her tank and she will wrap up around me tight as hell and just observe whatever I may be doing for the day. She started off so spicy too, the only snake I’ve ever been bitten by, and now she’s my best buddy. Still wouldn’t use her as a good snake for someone new trying to get over a fear, that job is for my BEL male Kaiba who is just the most docile idiot I’ve ever met but more of a wiggle worm
r/snakes • u/TheHippieRaine • 5h ago
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Doesn’t matter where I let him slither, he always goes up!
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r/snakes • u/Friendly-Actuary-313 • 4h ago
Of the 5-6 copperheads I’ve seen here in Alabama, I’d never seen one with such a pink tint before today! The photo really doesn’t do it justice. Just an absolutely extraordinary color!
r/snakes • u/Expert-Tomorrow5934 • 1d ago
He is losing some weight from being fat af, he got transferred from his PVC to a very large storage bin set-up recently to monitor his activity a little better, looking better than ever tbh
r/snakes • u/PaleontologistOk9127 • 17h ago
So I am apartment sitting for a friend and their family and they have a little ball python, and a little dog smaller then my fore arm I was to watch for them for 2 of the four days (Started on Friday) I would change the water and send a picture of in there in closure once a day but the third night I couldn’t stay over so I walked their dog for like over 30 min its a little one so it should be tuckered out, and checked on the snake. the next morning I came in and the inclosure was opened and some stuff fell on the floor. My friends room and really tidy but they have a a lot of knick knacks on their shelves that are up high but non of them have been misplaced besides what’s next to the in closure. The snake has their next feed tomorrow ( Tuesday). I feel horrible I called them as soon as I saw the door opened and after I checked the in closure. I need help!
r/snakes • u/Forsaken-Champion605 • 16h ago
Found this beautiful babies under some shelving. Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!
r/snakes • u/Some1_you-dont_know • 5h ago
First of all, sorry for the low quality pics, he only likes coming out at night and i didnt wanna turn the big lights on. Hes a 1 year old BI and currently eating a large mouse every 12 days, soon to be moved up to a weaned rat. I just wanna make sure he looks ok cuz hrs my first snake and i havent been able to find much on proper BI body condition other than they should look like a loaf of bread.
r/snakes • u/One-Translator-1956 • 16h ago
A young rhinoceros ratsnake (Gonyosoma boulengeri) from a group I've been raising up for about a year. It's been a tedious process to get them feeding on rodents (or even feeding at all for some individuals), but I finally have seven out of ten taking drop fed pinkies/fuzzies.
r/snakes • u/PresentationSafe7171 • 12h ago
Bci x epicrates Maurus
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r/snakes • u/No_Pilot_8843 • 5h ago
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check it out
r/snakes • u/forthepuncks • 4h ago
My little rosy boa is turning a year old in a couple weeks. She's been eating 2 fuzzies every other week pretty consistently. In the beginning of August she hid in her cave on the cool side to shed. She was in there for about 3 weeks until she finally shed (her shed comes off all in one piece every time, she's never had an issue with it). Then she came out of her cave and hung out in a spot on her cool side that she likes. I left her alone for a couple days then took her out to feed her in her feeding tub. She refused to eat and was a bit on edge (pretty tensed up and staying pretty still). For about another week she stayed in that same spot and didn't move much other than to drink some water, which is unusual for her (she's typically very active, always climbing around her tank, enjoys being handled). Just this last week she's come out and started being active again like she usually is. I've tried to feed her twice since then, and though she's acting normal again, she's still not eating. It's been 6 weeks now since her last meal.
I can't figure out why she won't eat. There haven't been any changes, her tank has stayed at its regular temperatures (75-80 on the cool side, 85-90 on the warm side with temps at the high end of their normal range). Her tank is due for another full cleaning so I'm planning that for this weekend, but I do spot clean in between of course. She's a desert native so she doesn't need a whole lot of humidity (her sheds have never had any problems). I buy the same brand of fuzzy mice every time for her (even tried a new pack just in case she just didn't like the pack that I already had).
I have a vet appointment for her this Friday to make sure she's okay, but any advice on why she won't eat and how I can get her to eat again would be appreciated!!
r/snakes • u/Snake-Vent-Girl • 4h ago
My daughters cat fell through the top of the snake cage now my snake is missing idk what to do I’ve searched everywhere…
r/snakes • u/Artilerus • 2h ago
New to kingsnakes. 2 month old california kingsnake, 3ft 50-gal wood enclosure. also does destroying her tunnels looking for poop make me a bad parent? On warm side it’s 85-90 during the day and 75-80 at night. humidity fluctuates 30-40 during the day and 40-50 at night. she’s eating live pinky mice fine. thankyou
r/snakes • u/Metapup420 • 1d ago
This guy was found out basking and he was around 5ft long! (Ithaca NY)
r/snakes • u/Artilerus • 6h ago
I’d like to provide a humid hide for my baby cali king. My biggest fear with all my snakes is scale rot. Is there a proper way to do this without the risk of scale rot? Thankyou
r/snakes • u/ExpressAward3734 • 3h ago
I’ve had my snake about 6 years. He’s a MBK and has never had bad shed until recently. His last good shed was in March. At this time I had upgraded him to a larger enclosure and he moved from Arizona back to Colorado. I have 3 humidity gauges in the tank, one on the cool side one in the middle and one on the hot side. They all three read between 39-49 % humidity. I have tried switching his substrate to soil to boost humidity, and that did not help. I then switched him back to aspen as he would not burrow in the soil. I now have two humidity hides in his thank one on the warm side ( a rock hide with moss and coconut chips), and a sky hide on the cool side that I keep moist moss in. I have added foil tape to the screen top to help keep in humidity, and have added a humidifier to the room. As he is a desert snake he should need between 30-50% humidity and his humidity in the tank is always in that range. I make sure to change his water every 1-2 days and re-mist the humidity hides. I also have some moss patches around the enclose that I spray every now and again. It seems nothing is working and I still have to put him in water to help shed. I do see him drinking often so I don’t think it’s internal dehydration, but it could be. If anyone has any advice.
r/snakes • u/foxlover1012 • 9h ago
Hello everyone, I have a young male Rosy boa as an emotional support animal. However, my family is afraid of snakes and I am in college. If anyone is interested in taking care of a Rosie boa during my college holidays, please let me know. Or please provide any advice or anywhere I could board my snake for a reasonable price in the Columbia, South Carolina area. If interested in boarding my rosy boa, we can discuss prices. Thank you!