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Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.

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On the side of an entrance to a Mexican restaurant in Covina,Ca.

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Was tending to some long needed cleaning of stuff no longer needed as I swap to a new phone, and found this. I got this pic in a pet store we were in looking for a dog harness and just happened to see this guy, and couldn't not get a closer look. I took a couple of pics with my phone before returning to the task at hand, and just saw them a few days ago for the first time. The tank was crystal clear in a typical fish closet, only light was muted tank lights, and I had the presence of mind to turn off my flash.

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aero58 said:
What snake is that?
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P. Obsoleta. is common named black rat snake. They're harmless colubrids, and very welcome if you live in a rural, or wooded area. They gobble up mice by the bushel, thereby reducing the food supply for more dangerous species. They're also active hunters rather than passively waiting for prey. I like to keep a few around here.
 
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Here's a little pictorial... an early-70's Gibson flattop I replaced the original bridge on. The rosewood bridge got a new set of bridge pins and saddle before restringing. (I'm also doing some other stuff to it...)

The pins are molded into a 5° tapered cone, and it's kinda' important they fit correctly.

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EdwardofHuncote said:
P. Obsoleta. is common named black rat snake. They're harmless colubrids, and very welcome if you live in a rural, or wooded area. They gobble up mice by the bushel, thereby reducing the food supply for more dangerous species. They're also active hunters rather than passively waiting for prey. I like to keep a few around here.
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They get pretty big, but unless you try to mess with them they're harmless. Here's one we came across in a local park.

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Reedt2000 said:
They get pretty big, but unless you try to mess with them they're harmless. Here's one we came across in a local park.

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Yep, they can get really big if they find a good place to live and survive. They are predators, but lots of things kill and eat them too, usually before they get that size. They don't have much defense other than escape and hide. When I was a kid we had one at a local science museum who had been there as an exhibit for 20 years. It had been rescued from some circumstance, had lost an eye and been cut up. The vet patched it up and it became kind of a pet/mascot for the museum. It had become so used to people that it had no fear or objection to being handled at all. And that snake was huge. They weighed and measured it for vet records regularly, which took a couple or three of us... it was well over 6' long when I left there. Hard to say how old it was.
 
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