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I just recently recieved this pic. It was sent labeled as HUGE a rattlesnake killed in my hometown area. Well sadely enough it is not a rattlesnake. It is a Diamondback Watersnake and the largest I have ever seen! It wasd even said to be in a reservoir with fish yet it was killed as a rattlesnake. So sad. I just wanted to post a pic to show the size. I bet this is as big as this species can reach. Also shows how people in my area glamourize killing a big snake. Very sad.

people are ignorant, always will be. a big healthy diamond back water indeed. but how big, who knows? could appear bigger in the way that the picture was taken. even if it were a rattlesnake, why kill it?
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp

oh , and there's the moron's license plate number
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp

It's probably not that large - it's just that it's on a stick in the foreground. I'd consider 4 feet to be in the "average" size range for a diamondback. And I'd say that snake is about 4 feet - perhaps a bit longer. Just out of curiousity, how big do you think the shell is on this Snapping Turtle I caught?

Tim

Third Eye

14 inch shell 14 lb turtle? think i'll go guess how many marbles in the jar now ... nice turtle
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger salamander
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
1 G rosea
1 Haplo minax
1 Brachy angustum
1 Brachy sabulosum
1 Brachy vagans
1 Cent. hentzi scorp

...maybe to 16.....

15 pounds?......

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1(1.normal,.1mojave,2.1 spider mojaves)
2(1.normal,1.pastel,spider?Huh,.1blast)1 dud 2 boobs died...
3(2pastelghost,3pastel,1normal....)
4(2normal,7 pastel...)
5(1.pin,5normal...)
6(normal,pastel,pastel-ghost.....

I was asking the question of the original person who posted.
But to end the suspense, the shell was 12 inches - I did not weigh the turtle.
sssnakelover did an even better job that I of showing how an animal's size can be exaggerated by holding it out in front of you.

Tim

.......yea...what a garter ....

.we need someone to post a "4 foot" DeKay's.....

............3 foot slamanders?........

.....Roland Martin did it all the time on TV with his bass fishing shows.....they all looked 20 pounds.....son...

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......118
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1(1.normal,.1mojave,2.1 spider mojaves)
2(1.normal,1.pastel,spider?Huh,.1blast)1 dud 2 boobs died...
3(2pastelghost,3pastel,1normal....)
4(2normal,7 pastel...)
5(1.pin,5normal...)
6(2normal,1pastel,1.pastel-ghost.....

the snake looks bigger than it is....he is holding the snake out closer to the camera on a stick. good sized water snake. but made to look bigger. idiots need to quit killing snakes...if they can't tell a water snake from a rattler....probably shouldn't leave the house!!!

pretty easy to make a snake look bigger....check out these photos of me and my garters....

We found one just maybe a bit shy of that one in louisiana, also dead on the road also, just after katrina. How big do they get? We were roadcruisin at night and it looked like a burmese in the road!