News Forum - Rare Tiffany Blue snake slithers into Thai woman’s backyard, sparking a ‘hiss-teria’ on lotto day

[Thaiger]

A rare blue snake, also known as a “Tiffany Blue” snake, was discovered by a 62 year old Thai woman in her backyard in Photharam, causing “hiss-teria” among her local community. The sighting, which has a one-in-a-million chance of occurring, coincidentally happened on a lottery day, leading locals to believe it to be a sign … …

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[Pinetree]

'Blue snake slithers into a Thai ladies backyard'??  Is it just me, but I pissed myself laughing when I read that, is it just me?  

[Grumpish]

She would have been better off catching the snake, they are not a rare species - it's a green tree python - but the full blue morph is very very unusual, and one specimen is rumoured to have changed hands for close on half a million dollars. 

[HolyCowCm]

6 hours ago, Grumpish said:

She would have been better off catching the snake, they are not a rare species - it's a green tree python - but the full blue morph is very very unusual, and one specimen is rumoured to have changed hands for close on half a million dollars. 

Looks like a viper to me. I get all sorts of green type of snakes in my yard periodically in CM. Just had a black and white one tossed over the fence. So the article and the other link are showing 2 different snakes. Which one is the real case?

[Guest1]

Interesting, since when are pythons venomous?

And this blue once are really pretty

[Grumpish]

5 hours ago, HolyCowCm said:

Looks like a viper to me. I get all sorts of green type of snakes in my yard periodically in CM. Just had a black and white one tossed over the fence. So the article and the other link are showing 2 different snakes. Which one is the real case?

It is a very rare colour morph of a snake that is usually green. Green Tree Pythons are venomous, but they are back fanged (venom fangs at the back of the mouth) so the chances of getting a poisonous bite from them is pretty low - and apparently the effects are unpleasant rather than dangerous.

[HolyCowCm]

3 hours ago, Grumpish said:

It is a very rare colour morph of a snake that is usually green. Green Tree Pythons are venomous, but they are back fanged (venom fangs at the back of the mouth) so the chances of getting a poisonous bite from them is pretty low - and apparently the effects are unpleasant rather than dangerous.

I actually find the color blue fantastic. And I am not a snake fan, but deal with them a lot. My wife's #1 phobia fear are snakes and everyone can gear ti when she see's one. She shouts my name. Sort of in vain..

Me no. I grew up with rattle snakes and graduated to cobra and python and green tree snakes here. Big deal. Not scared but use caution.

[HolyCowCm]

3 hours ago, Grumpish said:

It is a very rare colour morph of a snake that is usually green. Green Tree Pythons are venomous, but they are back fanged (venom fangs at the back of the mouth) so the chances of getting a poisonous bite from them is pretty low - and apparently the effects are unpleasant rather than dangerous.

Honestly. I do not want to get hit by any species including some mosquitos. I deal with Toke here all the time and relocate them. Just noisy creatures and I like quiet. But they all bite or strike or can potenitally have something not ok. 

[Karolyn]

12 hours ago, HolyCowCm said:

Looks like a viper to me. I get all sorts of green type of snakes in my yard periodically in CM. Just had a black and white one tossed over the fence. So the article and the other link are showing 2 different snakes. Which one is the real case?

The snake in the image is a common-ish color morph seen in some Trimeresurus sp. arboreal pit vipers. Asian cousins of the North American rattkesnakes, and the cottonmouth, cooperhead, and cantil clade. These are a pooular andxeasy 'hot herp' to care for and breed, but the morph is naturally ocurring, being found in the wild as well. 

[Smiler]

20 hours ago, Grumpish said:

It is a very rare colour morph of a snake that is usually green. Green Tree Pythons are venomous, but they are back fanged (venom fangs at the back of the mouth) so the chances of getting a poisonous bite from them is pretty low - and apparently the effects are unpleasant rather than dangerous.

It’s not a green tree python and green tree pythons are definitely not venomous with no venom fangs anywhere in their mouths. It’s a rare and beautiful color morph of rather common green tree vipers of which there are many different subspecies however there is a species of blue viper from the island of Komodo (trimeresurus insularis) which can be green but is more usually blue, I have seen these for sale in Bangkok and I wonder if it’s an escape from somebodies collection. The guy in the story has decided to keep it just hope he cares for it properly, he says it eats insects? they typically feed on lizards, amphibians and small mammals.

[Karolyn]

3 hours ago, Smiler said:

It’s not a green tree python and green tree pythons are definitely not venomous with no venom fangs anywhere in their mouths. It’s a rare and beautiful color morph of rather common green tree vipers of which there are many different subspecies however there is a species of blue viper from the island of Komodo (trimeresurus insularis) which can be green but is more usually blue, I have seen these for sale in Bangkok and I wonder if it’s an escape from somebodies collection. The guy in the story has decided to keep it just hope he cares for it properly, he says it eats insects? they typically feed on lizards, amphibians and small mammals.

Trimeresurus are not primarily insectivorous, but do opportunistically consume large arthropod prey. Atvthe other extreme, they eat other snakes as well. Nornally they eat smaller tetrapods, but the success of the genus, owes to its breadth of prey selection, as with Crotalus and Agkistrodon. Typically, they hunt arboreal frogs in the wild, more than anything. Depending on population and habitat, though, other prey like small mammals, might predominate over intake of frogs. I doubt any of the genus are dietaey specialists, and in captivity, all of them eat the same foods when offered.