New season, new site and guess who for snakes!

G'day! It's been far too long since I've posted, but seeing as the weather in slowly trying to warm, and the calls are also starting to roll in I figured it was time for an update!

Yesterday we launched our new website, something that has been in the making for a month or so. I've gotta say I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! Take a look at it here and let me know what you think.

Had a memorable call out last week to a house in Runcorn. It was for a Red bellied black snake on the footpath outside the house. I raced to the address in anticipation of finding the first venomous snake for the season, but on arrival the snake didn't look too good. The street was dimly lit, so I used my car headlights to allow me to take a better look. It was definitely black, with a red belly, but it looked kind of rubbery.

The rubber Snake

I walked towards the snake rather puzzled, but I soon realised the reason why exactly it looked rubbery, it was because it was in fact a rubber snake! But hey, at least I got to keep the rubbery bugger, and he costs much less to keep that my other more lifelike snakes.

The day after the above call out I received a call from a lady in Greenbank who had a snake crawling up their security door. Now whenever I get a call I always ask a few questions, just to get an idea of what I'll be dealing with before I arrive.

The first question, what does it look like?
Colour is a notoriously poor way to identify a snake, but it can narrow it down. For instance, if the snake has a strong pattern with blacks, browns, yellows or creams, you can be quite confident that around Brisbane it will be a Carpet python. With the varying colours of other snakes found in the region, this is one of the few snakes I would be confident of Identifying from colouring alone.

Another question is where is the snake? For instance if the snake is on the beams of your pergola eating a frog, then it's unlikely to be the mostly ground dwelling Eastern Brown Snake. One other piece of information that can help is what suburb you are in. After spending some time relocating snakes, you start to become aware of some suburbs that tend to get their fare share of certain species of snake.
An example would be in Parkinson, south of Brisbane where I've had a lot of calls for Keelbacks. Chapel Hill, Bardon and most other leafy suburbs surrounding Mt Coot-tha are Carpet Python central.
It's kind of like playing the old board game guess who, narrowing down the suspects till you have the right species.

So after asking the lady from Greenbank the usual questions, I drove out there with the expectation of seeing a Common tree snake climbing her security, boy was I surprised to find a nice big Red bellied black snake hanging from the top of the the door. Of course what made this even more exciting was that this one was not rubber!

Red Bellied Black Snake from Greenbank

Solar Snake repellers

I've had a few emails lately asking about the Solar snake repellers that are available to buy on the internet. They're pretty expensive so I thought I'd do some research on them.

I came across one youtube video posted by a member of a reptile forum. It shows the product not exactly working as described, check it out here


I'd love to test them out if anyone has one they could lend me for a few days.

The recent rain hasn't seemed to have increased the calls for snakes. There's still a few pythons winding up around peoples houses, but most callers have been happy to leave them to move off on there own.

My wife an I were due to leave for a camping trip to northern Queensland on boxing day, but the weather has put an end to that. It's very dissapointing as we'd been looking forward to it for so long. But, I will now be here to rescue snakes from residents and residents from snakes over the holiday period,

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Matt from Brisbane Snake Removals!

If you need assistance with a snake and live in Brisbane and Ipswich, you can call me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 0409 063 124.

You can also visit my website: www.brisbanesnakecatcher.com.au

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Pythons everywhere

With the high humidity of the past week the number of pythons coming out and into peoples houses was huge, as was the size of some of the pythons!

I had calls from suburbs all over Brisbane and Ipswich to help relocate pythons that had pushed the limits of what some residents could take. I find that people who call to have a python removed are usually great admirers of snakes and it's only when it has set up home close to pets or kids that they make the decision to have it moved.

On another note one of the pythons I've been rehabilitating after he got tangled in bird netting sustaining some very serious damage to his skin, has just eaten for the first time since I've been caring for him, this is great as hopefully now he will be able to heal faster and get back to being a wild python!

If you need a snake catcher in Brisbane or Ipswich call Matt on: 0409 063 124 for a friendly and affordable relocation.

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Cheers,

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Matt Harley

Snake catcher
Brisbane Snake Removals
0409 063 124
Professional service at an affordable price

Snakes everywhere

After a week of rainfall the sun came out again creating the perfect weather for snakes to be active.

The day statered out in Mt Samson where a large Brown snake had been seen coming and going from a small gap under a concrete slab. It was always going to be difficult with only a slight chance a catching the snake but I had a go but couldn't coax it out of the gap. It wasn't a complete loss tho

ugh as I did find an injured Yellow faced whip snake who is now in my care.

Just after dark I got a second call out, this time to 8 mile plains where a big carpet python had been seen in a residents backyard for a few days. There were lots of small dogs and other pets in the area so it was decided it would be best for him to be relocated. He was a beautiful example of a big Brisbane carpet python.

Not long after getting home from the carpet python I had another call, this time for a snake in a garage in Parkinson. From the decription it sounded like a keelback, but for an accurate ID I'd have to see the snake myself. So after rearranging the family's garage, I spotted a small head looking out from under a fridge, sure

enough it was a keelback. With the keelback bagged and ready to be relocated, and the family now able to get some sleep, it was now time for me head home to bed myself.

If you need the assistance of a snake catcher you can call me 24 hours / 7 days on 0409 063 124

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Another python and a new website

Got a call about yet another carpet python, this one was tangled up in bird netting. When I arrived I found about a 1.5m python, tangled not too badly, but badly enough that he couldn't get out.

The owner of the house mentioned she'd seen a few much larger pythons around the area in recent times.

Luckily the python had minimal damage from the bird netting when compared to another python I rescued a month or so ago, that python is still recovering from his injuries.

I also just uploaded a new website to http://www.brisbanesnakeremoval.com.au

If you need a snake catcher and you're in either Brisbane or Ipswich call me on: 0409 063 124 for professional, friendly and affordable service.

Pythons and Guinea pigs

It's never fun to get called out to relocate a snake that's eaten a pet. But that's what happened the other day, a big Brisbane carpet python had helped itself to 4 of a families pet Guinea pigs.



I was expecting to find quite a sombre mood in the house, but on arrival I found quite the opposite.



The kids of the house were so excited about having a huge python in there shed that the poor guinea pigs were forgotten about!



A few days later I got a call to a northern Brisbane suburb where a small carpet python had managed to squeeze it's way into a bird cage and eat a few love bird eggs. His plan came apart when after consuming the eggs, he was now to wide to fit back out through the wire in the cage.



Luckily he was full from eating the eggs though, so the 2 love birds in the cage escaped.



Later in the day I was called on to help track down a Green tree snake that had made his home in a truck cabin, after hours of looking and trying coax him out we were unable to move him on, but the trucks owner was planning on leaving the doors open as often as possible and hope it made it's way out on it own accord.



The weather has turned awful, and with rain forecast for the next few days I'm not sure what effect that will have on the snakes.


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Catching snakes in Brisbane

Welcome to my blog, the plan here is to occasionally jot down stories from my times relocating snakes in Brisbane and Ipswich.

I should point out that not just anyone can be a snake catcher! I have a permit from the EPA to be able relocate snakes that are considered common, if they are a threat to human health and well being.

I'll be back with my second post soon, if you have any questions feel free to ask! You can visit my website here Visit my facebook page here And why not follow me on twitter