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Considering the old thread was unfortunately lost, I'll start a new one with some original pictures of Elapids that have been relocated here
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Cool finds [MENTION=27815]SniperCap[/MENTION]!
I'm assuming that these are just Eastern browns, tiger snakes and common death adders but I like the striping on these guys! What locality are the browns/tigers?
I'll be interested in seeing what other people will post as well.

Bredli
 
Cheers BredliFreak,

They are actually just Death Adders and Pygmy Mulga Snakes - Pseudoechis weigli.
 
I have a soft spot for adders. Their pudginess and that head just makes them an all round awesome snake. Nice finds Sniper! One day I'll be able to do the same... one day...
 
Yeah love these wild threads, and looking forward to the new season!
 

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Lovely animals, we sure are lucky in Aus :)

Thanks to the relocaters for having the back of our wildlife and educating the public... Would be hard to bite your tongue!
 
Got a call last night to come remove "an active snake". When I arrived, it turned out to be not 1 but 2 Pygmy males combating which was a pretty spectacular site (unfortunately I didn't get any photos). Being the first time I had to collect 2 of any male snakes combating and knowing how quickly these guys tend to move off when on their own it took a few minutes of formulating a plan on how I would be able to tackle the issue. Luckily when I picked both tails up these two were still more interested in proving who was bigger and stronger until they went in the bag.

For other relocators, I can imagine picking up two venomous snakes at once isn't ideal however what other methods would you recommend? In this instance my decision was based upon there being multiple hiding places that I could not access if I separated them.

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Nice get, Stuart:)! I've tailed combating RBB males in much the same manner as you without probs but once tried the same with some textillis and it nearly ended in a double wammy! Luckily, I always have a large plastic garbage bin with me and binned one first before baging the other. My thinking was to seperate as they may have continued the fight if I'd binned both together?
 
Nice get, Stuart:)! I've tailed combating RBB males in much the same manner as you without probs but once tried the same with some textillis and it nearly ended in a double wammy! Luckily, I always have a large plastic garbage bin with me and binned one first before baging the other. My thinking was to seperate as they may have continued the fight if I'd binned both together?

Cheers iV, I appreciate the info. Yea I was wondering how these two would go once I bagged them together but the plan was to drive them a couple of kms away so a few minutes didn't hurt them and I wasn't really game enough to separate them once they were bagged
 
Stuart, I had a similar call to a black snake in the undercarriage of a vehicle, and when i undid and dropped what I think was a heat or noise sheild from under the car, two rbbs fell out, but they were mating not fighting. Fully stuck together, the males head landed about 8 inches away from my face, and the female further away and facing the other way. managed to tail them both carefully and bag them together, the female was very flighty and just wanted to run dragging the poor male, which looked painful.
I ended up rolling the top of the bag down and left them inthe bag in a holding avairy, and they didn't come out of the bag for 3 days. Male chased her around for a week or so then when it was all over I released them where I found them. with the male being so preocupied it was an easy catch.
But on the way to a couple of fighting EB's at Pearl Beach I was wondering how I would do it, but it turned out that the larger one had dealt with the smaller one by the time I got there, and so only had to deal with him. But yes I think seperation would have been my strategy with them, seeing as it was a warm day and they were fighting so I figured on high alert.

Some very nice Brown specimens there IV, the ones I see here on the southern end of the central coast have all been a very dark chocolate colour. I have no photos though, only quick vids of them leaving the bag and disapearing.
 
I don't care what anyone says about how beautiful some of the exotics are, we have some outstanding wild Reps right here in Australia, and every month i seem to see more outstanding specimens, I think we tend to take for granted what we have in our own backyards. :) ...................Ron
 
For those interested here is a short (4 minute) video of the recent release of an Eastern Brown .

[video=youtube;ae_PwZTASYU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae_PwZTASYU[/video]
 
Heres a nice local tiger,
middle photo care of J hatton.
 

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