Caught a coral snake, what next?

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TexasEd

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It is definitely a coral snake(Red and Yellow, Kill a fellow", and I have checked web sites for positive identification.

www.texas-venomous.com/tener.html

What should I do with it?

I am in Cedar Park and would be willing to take it to someone that uses them for anti-venom or some other beneficial purpose, but I am not releasing it near my house.

Might take it down to the nature preserve about 3 miles away and let it go if there are no better suggestions.
 
They used to live all around our house in Westlake Hills back in the 60's. No harm in letting it go in somewhere in the wild.
 
Get a little basket and then put on a cd of Zamfir and his magic Pan Flute. Pretend you are playing a flute and see if the snake comes out dancing. You will be a hit at parties.

If the snake does not play nice, eat it. But chew quickly.
 
I have a lake place near Cedar Park and have killed a few and the neighbors have too. Don't want my grand kids or dog running into one. Earlier this year, I read that a person in Corpus and another in Beeville had been bit by one. They had the anti venom for the one in Corpus, but the other had to be flown to San Antonio. In the article it said that the company that made coral snake anti-venom had gone out of business since the bites were so rare. So, be careful!
 
If you don't want to let it go, take it to the Science center by Zillker Park or maybe the Austin Zoo.
 
Yeah, releasing it into appropriate habitat would be the right thing to do. You have to handle a coral snake to get bit, they aren't aggresive, from what I have read.
 
I don't think they have fangs.

I've always heard that they have to gnaw on you to inject their venom, and since their mouths are relatively small they are more of a danger to pets and kids than they are to adults.

We get them out here all the time. Two years ago I found the biggest one I have ever seen in person -- the damned thing was at least three feet long, which is really rare.
 
This one was about a foot long, hard to be precise since a) It was trying to get away and b) I didn't feel like stretching it out next to a yard stick.

The mouth was VERY SMALL. It didn't want anything to do with me and it took about 10 minutes to catch it in a Tupperware type container.

I really don't think it would have posed a threat to anyone as long as it thought it had an escape route. It never tried to bite me, just get away.

My wife suggested the Wildlife Study thing, but I wanted to do something last night since it was in an air tight container on the front porch.

I let it go in the Balcones Wildlife Sanctuary off Lime Creek Road near Volente.
 
This reminds me of Snoop
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RIP.
 
i had a crazy aunt that had a coral snake in her freezer.

when i was a kid, i thought that was pretty cool, to see a frozen coral snake in a jar.
 
The coral snakes have been breeding with the black mamba's at Lake Travis...The new Super Snake. I hear they swim as well!
 
Why the hell wouldn't you just kill it? I guarantee you I would. Then I'd hang it up so all the other coral snakes would see what happens if they come around the house.
 
A guy I used to work with was cycling on the Buffalo Bayou trail near downtown Houston and he saw a coral snake. So he gets off his bike and goes to pick it up. "It was pretty," he explained. It bit him on his finger, but it didn't hurt, so he tried to pick it up again. It bit him again.

I forget some of the details, but he ended up in the hospital for about a week. He said that for a day or two, he would be doubled up from waves of convulsive pain.
 
When he got out he should have doubled up from you kicking him in the nuts real hard for being such a dumbass.
 
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