The Reptile Bloke in Springwood, New South Wales | Professional service
The Reptile Bloke
Locality: Springwood, New South Wales
Phone: +61 404 109 421
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25.01.2022 One of the girls in my private collection. She’s a Reduced Pattern Stimson’s Python and it looks like she’s growing some eggs inside of her. Notice how she’s laying with her tummy facing upwards. This is something they often do when they are gravid. Also a pic of one of the babies she produced last year from a pairing with a Wheatbelt male.
25.01.2022 To everyone who follows The Reptile Bloke. Have a safe and very merry Christmas! Thanks for being nice to snakes.
23.01.2022 Snakes, like all reptiles are ectothermic, AKA cold blooded. As the meme says. This doesn’t make them scary. It’s just one of the many aspects that make snakes so intriguing.
23.01.2022 Do snake repellers work?
22.01.2022 Something to be mindful of. Compost bins are a great way to take care of kitchen scraps and create a healthy garden but occasionally snakes can find their way inside the bin. A compost bin is a great place for a snake to shelter as well as potentially find a nice little mouse or two to eat. Always check when you lift the lid, just in case like this home at Bullaburra I visited yesterday you find a surprise visitor sitting on top of the scraps. This Red Bellied Black Snake was safely removed and relocated to nearby bushland away from houses and people.
21.01.2022 KING BROWN vs EASTERN BROWN (What’s the difference?) How many times have you heard someone say, or have you said yourself, I saw this massive King Brown.? It sounds more fearsome to say you saw a King Brown but chances are if you live here in the Blue Mountains or anywhere in the south Eastern parts of Australia what you saw was an Eastern Brown Snake, not a King Brown Snake. ...Continue reading
20.01.2022 Woma Pythons are really awesome!
20.01.2022 It’s hard to believe it has been ten years today since Malcolm Douglas tragically died in a car accident. Who else loved watching his documentaries on telly back in the day?
20.01.2022 Steve Irwin passed away 14 years ago today. He largely inspired me to do what I am doing now. He was larger than life. He was a legend! I still am not ok with the fact he isn’t here anymore.
19.01.2022 Red Belly in a drain today at a Blackheath home.
18.01.2022 Happy World Snake Day! Here’s some photos of some snakes I’ve met. How many of these snakes can you identify? Tell me in the comments!! Please Like and share.
18.01.2022 Red Bellied Black Snake removed from underneath decking of a Leonay home.
18.01.2022 It’s a simple message. I say it all the time. I sound like a broken record but I’ll continue saying it until people get it! LEAVE SNAKES ALONE AND THEY’LL LEAVE YOU ALONE!! Please like and share.
18.01.2022 Some great snake advice for snake season from the ARP.
18.01.2022 Check out the size of this beauty!! Big Red Bellied Black Snake today at Springwood! There were two here together for mating. I had already caught up the smaller female and bagged her up but this big male got back into his hideout before I could get him. So I waited until he came back out again about an hour later. Both snakes were bagged up safely and released together in bushland away from houses and people.
16.01.2022 VENOMOUS SNAKES INTERBREEDING WITH NON-VENOMOUS SNAKES! There are so many myths and fallacies surrounding snakes! It’s hard for the average person to know what’s true and what is not, so I thought I’d try to help separate the fact from the fiction. This is a common one that gets around. You’ll hear people say things like Carpet Pythons are interbreeding with Taipans creating super dangerous hybrid venomous pythons. Fortunately this is simply not true. They are far to...o distant from one another genetically. In the case of Taipans and Carpet Pythons, we are talking about snakes that are in completely different families. It is not possible for species in separate families to interbreed with one another. You may have also heard that exotic (non-native) species such as Corn Snakes etc could interbred with our native species. Again, they are genetically separated far too greatly and therefore cannot breed with one another. I do know of cases however where Ball Pythons and Carpet Pythons have been bred together. This is possible (though rare) because both these species are in the same family pythonidae. Myth Busted!
14.01.2022 Heading away this summer? Make sure your first aid knowledge and KIT is up to date.
14.01.2022 This guy Zac and the venom team at the Australian Reptile Park are dead-set heroes! The work they do literally saves hundreds of lives every year! Check out this video of Zac milking this stonker Coastal Taipan! Once the venom is milked it is freeze dried and sent to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory where it will be used to make life saving antivenom! As a snake catcher I’m at a higher risk of being bitten by a venomous snake than most people. I have never been bitten by a venomous snake and I hope to keep it that way. However it’s comforting to know that if I ever need it there is antivenom available in Australia for all of our venomous snakes thanks to the tireless work done by people like Zac and others at the ARP and CSL.
13.01.2022 THE VALUE OF CAT ENCLOSURES!! Karen, a Warrimoo resident has a few pet cats and a visiting Diamond Python. Karen phoned me last night but by the time I would have been able to attend the rain had set in and the python had disappeared over the top of the roof of the house. Nevertheless Karen posted up this very interesting security footage. In this clip you can see that the cat is rather curious about the python, but not only that, the python is thinking it might get a free ...meal and strikes at the cat. Fortunately though the two animals were never able to come into physical contact with one another and both of them are safe. I can’t stress enough how much of a good idea it is to invest in a good quality cat enclosure for your cats! This means that not only your pets, but our native wildlife are kept safe! See more
10.01.2022 A little bit of herpetological history. It was on this day 70 years ago a young 20 year old snake man named Kevin Budden lost his life to a Coastal Taipan bite. Until that time there was no antivenom available for Taipan bite in Australia, and so Kevin was on an expedition to find a wild Coastal Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) to be brought to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) for milking. Kevin found a Taipan but unfortunately the snake bit him and he died from the... bite the next day. The snake would have been killed there and then but before Kevin died he pleaded that the snake would be sent to CSL so that it could be used purposefully for the development of antivenom. This is a tragic story of how a man lost his life but thanks to Kevin Budden and other people like David Fleay who later milked that Taipan we now have antivenom suitable for this species and every species of snake in Australia. Because of the pioneering work of these people many many snake bite victims have lived to tell the tail. Below: photograph of Kevin Budden and the preserved Coastal Taipan that bit him. See more
10.01.2022 This chunky Red Belly was pretty eager to get a move on.
09.01.2022 The other day I had to cut this Tiger Snake out of some netting. Please don’t leave netting on the ground as it often entangles our wildlife. This Tiger was lucky to have been discovered before it was too late. Without help it would have certainly died a slow and painful death. Be nice to snakes!
08.01.2022 WOW! WOW! WOW! What an amazing portrait of a Red Bellied Black Snake!! Well done Andrew Gould on capturing this outstanding photo!!
08.01.2022 Snakes are beginning to emerge here in the beautiful Blue Mountains, and just as beautiful, this Diamond Python was relocated from a house in Springwood today.
08.01.2022 I highly recommend watching this video if you would like to know a little more about venomous snakes. Documentary by Ross McGibbon Reptile Photography
07.01.2022 Zac Bower from the Australian Reptile Park living the dream.
06.01.2022 I got a call the other day to remove this Red Bellied Black Snake that was living in a rock retaining wall. After pulling the entire wall apart the snake could not be found. Today I got called back as the snake had returned but to a different section of the embankment in the yard. This time I was successful.
05.01.2022 Check out this great video by Ross McGibbon. This is some of the best information on snake behaviour I’ve seen. Please watch. It’s very informative and may give you a better understanding of Australia’s venomous snakes.
05.01.2022 Very interesting!!
04.01.2022 Releasing a Diamond Python today. Super relaxing to watch.
03.01.2022 There was a person on this page harassing several women who had commented on my posts. I have removed his comments and have banned him from the page. These people will not be tolerated here and if you notice anyone posting spam or pestering people on this page please let me know so I can deal with it promptly. I apologise sincerely to all those who were affected by this. Thanks. Troy.
02.01.2022 Did you know that Eastern Brown Snakes can sometimes have stripes?? Eastern Brown Snakes are actually really variable and can come in many colour shades. Not just plain brown. Often when they hatch out of the egg as juveniles they are strikingly banded but these bands usually fade with age. Sometimes however, like in this individual captured by Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers they can retain those bands into adulthood. What a beautiful specimen!!
02.01.2022 Something to keep an eye out for.
02.01.2022 The Australian Reptile Park do some incredible work. Here’s an entertaining video with some really cool venomous snakes! Check it out!
01.01.2022 SNAKE PHOBIAS. This beautiful little Diamond Python was sliding around in a Warrimoo roof yesterday and today. The caller told me his Wife refused to sleep in the house last night knowing the Python was there. She opted for the back shed instead!! Today I removed the unwanted houseguest so now the lady can rest easy in the comfort of her house again. Of course Diamond Pythons are completely harmless to people and it may sound silly but for some people phobias are real and ...I’m glad to be able to help in what little way I can to make life better for both people and snakes. Update: I got called back to this same house a second time after the caller heard another snake sliding around up in the roof. I had a feeling there was more than one snake when I got the first one. I had a bit of a look around but after just a quick look I though it was most likely alone. I should have trusted my instincts and kept looking because when I came back the second time I found three more all together in a mating ball. Bagging the three extra pythons while up in the roof proved to be quite a challenge. I got two bagged but as I was getting them in the bag the third one anchored itself to a beam and then got away from me. I secured the two that I had and then went searching for the third one again. The home owner spotted it near where he was over near the man hole so I quickly got a hold of it and bagged it up with the others. Quite an eventful afternoon!
