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Today's field trip

9 years ago

last modified: 9 years ago

Anyone who gardens in Florida has encountered a snake or two. Well, today I encountered lots of them along with turtles, tortoises, lizards, gators :) I'm visiting my son and his girlfriend in Deland and we just left the Reptile Discovery Center. Very cool! They also have a company on-site called Medtoxin who milks venom from the snakes to create anti-venom. We watched them milk eastern rattlesnake, coral snake, cottonmouth, water moccasin. I also held my first ever snakes...albino ball python and king snake. I actually loved holding them which surprised me. They wanted to cuddle :)

Rhonda

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User
9 years ago
I have a friend in SC who has a reptile farm. He has these huge pits where he keeps the vipers. The one with the rattlers and moccassins has this fast-flowing stream going around the bottom, and a lot of them will just swim in that for hours in the summer when it gets hot.

He also has a herpetarium, where he keeps the larger tropical snakes like pythons and such in glass cases. Some snakes have gotten loose, so you can't walk around his property without hip-high boots on.
Rhonda
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9 years ago
Oooo. I don't think I'd ever visit him LOL
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User
9 years ago
Oh, that's just in the overgrown areas of his property. He has a big swath cleared around the house.

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