Nerodia Sipedon - Water Snake

[Loren]

Very nice, I would love to have some nerodia someday, but they arent legal here. Considered potentialy destructive if released/escaped.

[infernalis]

Very nice, I would love to have some nerodia someday, but they arent legal here. Considered potentialy destructive if released/escaped.

Loren, Where is "here"???

[GartersRock]

Huh. Interesting. Destructive??

[dashnu]

I have heard of this type thing around here a lot. Something is causing a bell to go off in my head... Didn't something like this happen in Lake Erie, snakes where killing off all the fish..

Someone up here populated one of our small lakes with Northern Pike and it is wipping out the bass population.

[Loren]

Same idea as with the fish. Some water snakes got established in a few areas of California, one of which being in the range of the giant garter (t. gigas, if I remember right) and is/was competing with them for habitat and food. So, the Ca fish and game made it illegal to posess nerodia here.
I am not sure if those nerodia populations still exist or not at the present day.

[infernalis]

Thank you for the clarification.

Makes perfect sense

[Zephyr]

I have heard of this type thing around here a lot. Something is causing a bell to go off in my head... Didn't something like this happen in Lake Erie, snakes where killing off all the fish..

Huh, all I know is that the Lake Erie water snake is protected, but in the one cove they're found there's a whole bunch of them.

[dashnu]

right, you know what im thinking of are those damn clams!! It just poped into my head.

[GartersRock]

Ah ok. Makes sense! Actually reasonable!

[crzy_kevo]

man i was walking home and i stopped by the emty lot by the warter and looked over the edge at the rocks like i always do to see if there are any snakes and finally the first nerodia i had seen this year but it scotted deep in the rocks b4 i could get to it

im still pissed that it got away

but on the plus side i know they are still hanging out there since before today i hadn't seen one there since last year