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OMG! Snake in the pool! The title says it all I guess. I had a SNAKE in my pool! It was a little black one and was a heck of a good swimmer. We have water moccasins in FL so I was terrified it was a baby. I called my husband (out of a meeting:o) and he came home and caught it. He said it wasn't a moccasin thank god. Okay that was enough excitement for me for the day. Our pool is screened so now I have to worry how he got in and if there are more of them. My husband said it's from the rain so I'm going to believe it was a fluke and will never ever happen again.:D |
Aww, I wonder where his siblings are? :p |
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Okay after looking at a million pictures of snakes I discovered it was a ringneck snake in my pool. Diadophis punctatus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Totally harmless and in fact beneficial. It was an adult snake not a baby- they just don't grow very big. I feel a little better (and kind of silly). I found this on one site http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herp...punctatus.htm: Ringnecks are the snakes that are most frequently found in Florida swimming pools — they crawl in to get a drink and then cannot climb out because they are too small to reach the lip of the pool. If you find one in your pool, lift it out with the leaf skimmer or a dipnet and turn it loose in the shrubs where it can get back to eating things you do not want in your garden. |
I wonder why the chlorine doesn't hurt them? |
OMG, I woulda freaked too - and called the hubs in a 5-star alarm "come home now" too. :p |
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