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re: Snakes released in Florida
Posted on 6/15/25 at 9:45 am to Auburn1968
Posted on 6/15/25 at 9:45 am to Auburn1968
Visited St.Maarten island recently and asked if they had any venomous snakes. They replied they have no snakes after they brought mongoose to the island. Not sure what the mongoose are eating now but we did see one in the wild. Wonder how mongoose would do in Florida?
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Posted on 6/15/25 at 9:50 am to Auburn1968
Just send dat baw Troy Landry down dere to catch all dem snakes!
Posted on 6/15/25 at 9:59 am to Auburn1968
I don't think this is going to do a damn thing to help with pythons.
I had a huge 4 foot speckled king when I was a kid and I fed it a pigmy rattler. After eating the rattler it didn't eat anything else for a year. Their metabolism is slow as hell.
I had a huge 4 foot speckled king when I was a kid and I fed it a pigmy rattler. After eating the rattler it didn't eat anything else for a year. Their metabolism is slow as hell.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:03 am to Chad504boy
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We don’t want them eating king snakes and rat snakes
And this is where it will go wrong. If they are not sterile, and breed. They will encroach on other states
Can't expect Florida to think things through though
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:07 am to furrydogs
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Wonder how mongoose would do in Florida?
IYKYK
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:08 am to Auburn1968
The OP is confusing. Video is about native eastern indigo snakes being released in North Florida to try and reestablish their population.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:11 am to theunknownknight
quote:There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...
This will work and not backfire at all
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:28 am to Auburn1968
So, non-native snakes are out of control so we are releasing other non-native snakes to control them? I get the feeling that we are kinda outthinking things! 
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:31 am to theunknownknight
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This will work and not backfire at all
Wrong. They will eat all of the snakes good and bad. Then they will turn on each other until only 1 is left.
Then scientist will place a few mirrors in the everglades.... booom!!
You just don't understand science and shite.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:37 am to Tr33fiddy
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I don't think this is going to do a damn thing to help with pythons.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:42 am to Tridentds
They are helping to restore a native, now endangered, species that should help balance things. Eastern Indigo snakes are not venomous and pose no threat to humans.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:43 am to Auburn1968
Sounds like a speckled kingsnake. I wonder who would eat who when they come into contact?
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:48 am to Auburn1968
Florida is a real life version of The Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly. Perhaps it will die.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:54 am to Auburn1968
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:56 am to RanchoLaPuerto
Speaking of Samuel L Jackson, I heard he's a big proponent of this plan
He was quoted as saying "I am sick and tired of these motherfricking snakes, in this motherfricking state!"
Posted on 6/15/25 at 10:58 am to Auburn1968
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There is a South American snake that eats other snakes almost exclusively.
Mussurana (Clelia):
unless they can get to the same size as pythons, how does this help with what Florida is battling with pythons?
snakes don't chew, they swallow whole, so the best case scenario leaves you with 2 dead snakes, one being eaten (python) and one doing the eating (mussurana)... being the ratio would be 1:1, seems like it would awfully cost prohibitive...
Posted on 6/15/25 at 11:02 am to theunknownknight
Geesh... ya think that they would have learned from the movie, Mimic.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 11:03 am to 0x15E
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Some other species will suffer for this in the long-term.
Yeah, King snakes will probably be the first to get wiped out. Whoops.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 11:15 am to Auburn1968
Oh Lord, don’t tell Tgrrrdad about this. He’ll be down there trying to catch them.
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