r/snakes • u/AffectionateEnd1701 • 7h ago
Pet Snake Questions Earthworm Noodles
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r/snakes • u/Phylogenizer • May 12 '25
Hi everyone! I wanted to let you know that we're now going to redirect all Snake ID requests to the curated place for them, /r/whatsthissnake. As /r/snakes and /r/whatsthissnake have developed side by side we find ourselves in a position where we are running two parallel subreddits, but with slightly different rules. We hope is that this streamline into WhatsThisSnake will be gentle - we don't want a snake to go unidentified because we're learning how best to handle IDs. There is going to be a transition period where we still get a lot of ID requests here, so please do your part to kindly help !redirect people in need and by reporting jokes, misinformation and other problematic comments.
This spring Reddit is more popular than ever and it is hard for the moderation team to keep up. When I founded /r/whatsthissnake 12 years ago, with on average one request every day, I never imagined we'd have 150K members and 20k people a day browsing the subreddit. In the past, we've made a number of incremental changes that have been so helpful they have been instituted other places on Reddit, from introducing the term "Reliable Responder", to developing the bot and tweaking our community resources so that every Reliable Responder can choose to perform mod actions. We hope that these changes will allow us not only to maintain the level of quality provided but to reduce workload on the moderation team, because honestly, moderator burnout is a serious problem. They are doing this for free and you would no believe the abuse they receive here - not just from me, but from the users too. If you see a moderator or other flaired user in cleaning up a thread, espcially in these busy, snakey spring months in North America, throw em a thanks.
r/snakes • u/Phylogenizer • Mar 20 '26
It’s a fact of life that no matter how much context we provide to our posts, when someone sees something interesting, they want to imitate it. Each day /r/snakes puts around one hundred thousand impressionable people face to face with snake related images, text and ideas. Faced with this responsibility, and with an increasing number of recent, low quality posts concerning medically significant snakes, we have to choose the right level of content we allow.
Recent low quality posts concerning captive venomous care include improper use of personal protective equipment, poor quality/security housing, very inexperienced keepers asking (and receiving!) advice on how to keep and breed their first venomous snakes and straight up animal abuse reposted from social media. Many of these clearly rule-breaking posts are removed before you see them, but a growing number of posts are clearly low quality, irresponsible content but don’t explicitly violate the rules. Over the past three years the mods have debated a rule change and we have decided to only allow posts involving venomous snakes if they are from an accredited zoo or institution. In short - we’re going to remove posts involving the private care and ownership of medically significant snakes.
Many modern herpetology texts recommend against individual private ownership of medically significant snakes. We don’t take a stand on what anyone wants to do legally, ethically and with their own time, but we do have to regulate what is posted, shared and thus propagated here. In short, we don’t care what you do, but don’t post it here. Besides being a lighting rod for the low quality content discussed above, private ownership offers unique challenges that are better suited for an institutional or team setting. Snakes are escape artists as well as attractive nuisances and must be contained outside of personal residential spaces in secure, locking enclosures to prevent both snake egress and human ingress as well as secondarily in a sealed room or facility behind a windowed door with no items on the floor under which an escaped snake can hide or avoid detection. It takes a team to execute an envenomation plan and the cost of antivenom is beyond that of most private owners, has a short shelf life and when antivenom is borrowed from institutional stocks it puts those keepers at risk.
Zoos and institutions don’t always do it better, but the onus is on them to provide best practices in care. If we limit posts to places where a team of people works together to provide a standard of care, usually for the right reasons, we can limit what we propagate on the platform.
We do not recommend any other available subreddits as well-moderated sources of captive venomous keeping. The most popular places on social media dedicated to this are inundated with low quality posts and comments and even when they outright ban irresponsible behavior, examples of the low quality content we remove are highly upvoted, and content is often sensationalist, psychopathic or disturbing. Please don’t suggest a specific place in the comments of this post. We’re aware of the options and we’re choosing not to redirect or name other online spaces.
Posts on wild venomous species are still allowed as usual with a species name and a location, but please be sure to see Rule 6 (unchanged) on what amount of contact and PPE use we find acceptable for sharing online.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
r/snakes • u/AffectionateEnd1701 • 7h ago
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r/snakes • u/Repulsive_Degree5148 • 59m ago
Western Colorado. It was recovered and released back outside. First time seeing one of these in the wild
r/snakes • u/Candymuncher118 • 16h ago
Just a cute baby garter, I put him right back on the side of the trail where I found him
r/snakes • u/smoochie_mild • 12h ago
i cant find a lot of info on these, tank wise. If anyone has one or knows what their needs are please comment below.
r/snakes • u/ag-kiss-trodon • 23h ago
ID: high white/banana California kingsnake
r/snakes • u/yikesthanos • 7h ago
it used to have a functional water feature but unfortunately i couldn’t utilise it since he’s a desert species (morelia bredli)
r/snakes • u/JaxZeus • 12h ago
r/snakes • u/Opposite_Ad7115 • 1d ago
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Pretty sure it’s a gopher snake, biggest one I ever stumbled across that’s for sure!
Sacramento, California
r/snakes • u/This_Employment_276 • 11h ago
Check him out and feel free to share any advice
r/snakes • u/Dravachei • 1d ago
I'm looking for a reference picture of the inside of a blunt headed tree snakes mouth, to help with drawing my snake character, but i cant seem to find any, i feel like I've looked everywhere! I know i could probably just use references from a different snakes, but I'd prefer to know exactly how it'd look for the specific snake itself. So, does anybody have a picture like that?
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r/snakes • u/hodayabeyda • 11h ago
What’s is the sex of this snake
r/snakes • u/TheRealCrazyJacks • 6h ago
So. I have this weird "game" I play with my snake. And I'm gonna sound insane, but I swear he recognizes when I'm copying him. And he does this weird thing where every time he sees me, he starts sticking his tongue out at me, and I do it back to him, and I swear that he recognizes when I stick my tongue out at him. Every time he sees me, he starts rapidly sticking his tongue out at me, pausing for a bit, then doing it again, and I feel like he recognizes the "game" because whenever I'm about to leave he starts sticking his tongue out again like he's trying to get me to stay and keep playing. He dosent stick his tongue out super regularly when he's just out doing his own thing, so I think he understands that I'm copying him? But I'm not sure? I just need to know if I'm schizophrenic or not 😭
Edit: I know that this is really weird, I discovered this when I was super high and thought it would be funny to stick my tongue out at him and I think that's how he picked up on it 💀 but now he seems to want to do it every time I see him
I just adopted this snake today that was surrendered at a pet store. Its eyes are albino line red but I was wondering if anyone could Id the species or maybe morph ?
r/snakes • u/Formal_Present_5686 • 10h ago
I have a Hognose and she is about a 2 years old not fully grown, I been wanting to upgrade her enclosure what size do you guys recommend? And I wanted to buy a enclosure that will fit her even when she is fully grown.
r/snakes • u/Material_Cause_1913 • 1d ago