There are lots of snake species around this area a few non-venomous and lots of venomous. A few deadly (Coastal Taipan and Eastern Brown Snakes Red Belly Black Snake is deadly but no recorded bites. Stephens Banded Snake at Mt Glorious. Small-eyed Black Snake in backyards. Death Adders at Mt Glorious. We don’t get Tiger Snakes here.) but most venomous ones are only mildly venomous. Eastern Brown Snakes cause most venomous bites.
Green Tree Snake.. This one was quite a dark blue-green with a ‘carpet-snake’ type pattern on its back. The colour is a variation – Green Tree Snake colours vary from blue-green yellow black brown. Not very large. They belong to the colubrid (the venomous are elapids). We also get a Brown Tree Snake in this area (mildly venomous with fangs in the rear of its mouth). Really common around dams. Red Bellied Black Snakes are very susceptible to cane toads. Brown Snakes are very much mouse feeders. It is the snakes that specialise in eating frogs that are most susceptible to death from eating toads.
Keelbacks are also common in this area and they eat frogs. They can eat cane toads without being killed by the poison.
The Sawshell Turtle (a local short-necked turtle) can also eat cane toads without being killed.
Spotted Python. Smooth shiny soft skin with carpet pattern. Not very large. Often seen hanging around the mouth of bat caves.
Centralian Carpet Python. Much larger brown with strong markings especially underneath. Hunt things like brush-tailed possums fruit bats birds mammals chickens rats mice guinea pigs bantams banticoots. They sense heat with heat sensors and their tongues which is how they catch their prey. They don’t feed much on cold-blooded prey like cane toads.