i think i spoke to soon

[zard]

thanks for the answers, hubby just told me to ask and he was the one holding the snake :? glad he had on the gloves

 

[amethystine]

spoke to soon

It's about 0.2 unlike a taipan whitch is about 50.0 :?

 

[Craig2]

did it try to bite him

 

[amethystine]

comparison.

Inland Taipan
Oxyuranus microlepidotus 50.0
Common Brown Snake
Pseudonaja textilis 12.5
Taipan
Oxyuranus scutellatus 7.8
Reevesby Is. Tiger Snake
Notechis ater niger 5.1
Common Tiger Snake
Notechis scutatus 4.2
Western Tiger Snake
Notechis ater occidentalis 4.0
Beaked sea snake
Enhydrina schistosa 2.9
Chappell Is. Tiger Snake
Notechis ater serventyi 1.8
Common death adder
Acanthophis antarcticus 1.5
Western Brown Snake
Pseudonaja nuchalis 1.5
Copperhead
Austrelaps superbus 1.0
Dugite
Pseudonaja affinis 0.9
Stephens banded snake
Hoplocephalus stephensi 0.4
Rough scaled snake
Tropidechis carinatus 0.5
Spotted black snake
Pseudechis guttatus 0.3
King Brown Snake
Pseudechis australis 0.3
Collets snake
Pseudechis colletti 0.2
Red bellied black snake
Pseudechis porphyriacus 0.2
Small-eyed snake
Cryptophis nigrescens 0.2
Whip snake
Demansia olivacea <0.1
Non-Australian

Indian cobra
Naja naja naja 1.0
Papuan black snake
Pseudechis pauanus 0.4
King cobra
Ophiophagus hannah 0.3
E. diamond-back rattlesnake
Crotalus adamanteus <<0.1
Brazillian viper (Barba amarilla)
Bothrops atrox <<0.1

This type of comparison still relies on LD50 results being available,

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

thanks amethystine.. i was looking for that

 

[zard]

did it try to bite him

it tagged the glove 5 times apparently..
normally we dont touch the snakes that come here but thought we would move this one out of the yard. it was palced inthe bush nice and safley


thanks for that info amethystine i think ill keep that.

 

[Craig2]

where can i get a copy of the reptiles u can keep on what licence

 

[zard]

it depends on what state u are in as the rules change from state to atate, in NSW the parks and wildlife website has one and in QLD its the EPA ..

 

[Rupes]

where can i get a copy of the reptiles u can keep on what licence

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/pdfs/reptile_licensing_outline_aug04.pdf
thats if your in nsw

 

[Fuscus]

can someone tell me what the toxicity level of one of these little buggas is???

You would survive a bite from that.
Proberly.
Maybe.

It would hurt.

 

[Hickson]

Amethestine,

Could you explain what those numbers mean please?



Hix

 

[Craig2]

ty rupes ohh sorry thank you ( have to keep every 1 ohh sorry one

 

[Fuscus]

Amethestine,

Could you explain what those numbers mean please?



Hix

all you wanted to know about LD50 but were afraid to ask.
http://www.seanthomas.net/oldsite/ld50tot.html

 

[Craig2]

I do appoligise i have just found out that the rrb snake is actually class 2 cat 1 venimous

 

[Fuscus]

oh and Zard have you seen any Taipans there ? :twisted:

 

[Hickson]

Amethestine,

Could you explain what those numbers mean please?



Hix

all you wanted to know about LD50 but were afraid to ask.
http://www.seanthomas.net/oldsite/ld50tot.html

Fuscus,

I understand all the LD50 stuff, but the numbers Amethestine posted were not LD50's. I want to know what the numbers he posted represent.



Hix

 

[Fuscus]

looks like relative toxity where 1 is the value for the cobra
http://www.venomsupplies.com/reltox.html

 

[amethystine]

This type of comparison still relies on LD50 results being available, but provides a simple comparison of venoms for the lay person. It is important when using this type of comparison, to only use LD50 figures that quoted in the same form using the same test animal with the same injection site.

Minton and Minton (1969)7 quote the s.c. LD50 for the western diamond back rattlesnake Crotalus atrox as 150-385mg/20gm mouse or 7.5-17.9mg/kg. This would make it about 0.07-0.03 times as toxic as Naja naja*. Similarly the sidewinder Crotalus cerates is 0.005 and the Mojave rattlesnake Crotalus scutulatus is 0.08 times as toxic as Naja naja*.

*These comparisons are only approximate since both data sets were carried out by different laboratories with possible differences in the parameters used to assess the LD50's.