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.
