HAD A VISITOR IN MY POOL SATURDAY - NOT WELCOME EITHER!

[GaryS]

You guys are making me rethink moving to Texas. I wonder what housing prices in Antarctica are like?

We have had Rattler's here too! Rattler's are larger so they are a little easier to spot. The Coral Snakes are way smaller and hard to see in the grass. Rattler's usually at least warn you they are there by making their noise. While I am no expert, I don't think they actually have an antidote for Coral Snake bites.

I would not want to tangle with any of them!!! Below is the Rattler that came to visit last spring. He was thankfully on the outside of the screening.

 

[WR Moore]

I would not want to tangle with any of them!!! Below is the Rattler that came to visit last spring. He was thankfully on the outside of the screening.

Looks like a HATBAND!

 

[Paul in Nevada]

Paul - are you SURE the snake you saw wasn't a BOWL CONSTRICTOR? HA HA LOL!!

Maybe a water-closet moccasin.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Don't know where you live but I believe coral snakes are a western species but you have alligators also.
Could be you saw a milk snake. Harmless.

 

[oink]

Coral snakes exist in southern states from NC to Az. They exist is all of Fl.

 

[VictorLouis]

Red and Yellow=Kill a Fellow; Red and Black=Friend of Jack.

I grew-up in SE Florida. I learned it as a kid,
Red TOUCH yellow, KILL a fellow, and
HEAD is black? LOOK OUT, Jack!

My neighborhood was well-established long before we ever moved-in. I did come face-to-face with what I believe was a copperhead...once...but I didn't remain still long enough to be certain. Other than that, just squirrels and the occasional possum.

 

[swsig]

We had a pool at our previous house. I came home late one night and noticed something in the pool. It was a possum swimming laps. I went to get the pole with the leaf skimmer on it, looking forward to a "fun time" trying to fish him out. I needn't have bothered. At that moment, he saw me and immediately swam to the ladder. He climbed out easily, walked directly past me, paying me no attention, went up some steps, then down the sidewalk and out the front gate. Apparently he was a "regular" at our pool, because he had his routine down pat.