Snake Discovery Full Species List

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birdsandbats

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Date of Visit: August 23 2024

Species not seen in italics

Reptile Zoo
1. Turtle Touch Tank: Common Map Turtle, Spiny Softshell Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, Southern Painted Turtle, Common Plecostomus
2. Green Tree Python
3. Argentine Boa
4. Cook's Boa
5. Pixie Frog
6. Green Keel-bellied Lizard
7. Bumblebee Poison Dart Frog
8. Black-tailed Cribo
9. Dumeril's Monitor
10. Common Snapping Turtle
11. Black-headed Python
12. Common Blue-tonged Skink
13. Texas Spiny Lizard
14. Vietnamese Blue Beauty Ratsnake
15. False Water Cobra
16. Brooks Kingsnake
17. Eastern Tiger Salamander
18. Brown Kukri Snake
18. Rhinoceros Rat Snake
19. Mangrove Snake
20. Japanese Rat Snake
21. Prehensile-tailed Skink
22. Madagascar Giant Day Gecko
23. Nelson's Milksnake
24. Fire Skink
25. Crested Gecko
26. Gray-banded Kingsnake
27. Calabar Python
28. Leachianus Gecko
29. Vietnamese Mossy Frog
30. Golden Poison Dart Frog
31. Eastern Gray Tree Frog
32. South American Bird Poop Frog
33. White's Tree Frog
34. Timber Rattlesnake
35. Western Diamondback
36. Bullsnake
37. Western Ratsnake
38. Solomon Island Leaf Frog
39. Common Garter Snake, Plains Garter Snake
40. Ramspott's Foxsnake
41. Plains Hognose
42. Eastern Hognose
43. Central American Boa
44. Argentine Black-and-white Tegu
45. Northern Glass Frog
46. Gila Monster
47. Mexican Beaded Lizard
48. Borneo Eared Frog
49. Neon Day Gecko
50. Hourglass Tree Frog
51. Axolotl
52. Spiny-tailed Monitor
53. Madagascar Giant Hognose
54. European Legless Lizard
55. Mexican Black Kingsnake
56. Tricolor Hognose
57. Blue Tree Monitor
58. Veiled Chameleon
59. American Alligator
60. Cuban False Chameleon
61. Burmese Python
62. Madagascar Swift
63. Dekay's Brownsnake
64. Tokay Gecko
65. Shield-tailed Agama
66. Reticulated Python
67. Reticulated Python

Invert Cave
1. Mexican Redknee Tarantula
2. Mexican Redrump Tarantula
3. Blue Death-feigning Beetle
4. Common Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
5. Arizona Blonde Tarantula
6. Asian Forest Scorpion
7. Two-spot Assassin Bug
8. Giant African Millipede
9. Arizona Bark Scorpion
10. Western Short-horned Walkingstick
11. Striped-knee Tarantula
12. Rio Grande Gold Tarantula
13. Nicaraguan Curlyhair Tarantula

Additional Species for Sale in the Pet Store
-Gargoyle Gecko
-Chinese Cave Gecko
-Ball Python
-Cranwell's Horned Frog
-Corn Snake
-Corn Snake x Plains Ratsnake hybrid
-Variable Kingsnake
-Honduran Milksnake
-Australian Barking Gecko
-California Kingsnake
-Dyeing Poison Dart Frog (incl. Blue)
-Yellow-spotted Climbing Toad
-Ghost Praying Mantis
-Darth Maul Tarantula
-Kilimanjaro Mustard Baboon Tarantula
-Venezuelan Suntiger
-Brazilian Black Tarantula
-Dwarf Red Pinktoe
-Chilean Golden Flame Tarantula
-Antillean Pinktoe Tarantula
-Regal Jumping Spider
-Orange-face Velvet Spider
-Italian Velvet Spider
-Lava Tarantula
-Spiny Flower Mantis
-Giant Asian Mantis
-Chilean Blue Beauty
-Socotra Blue Baboon
-Chilean Rosehair Tarantula
-Rear-horned Baboon
-Savannah Monitor
-Green Iguana
-Common Leopard Gecko
-Mangrove Monitor
-Hog Island Boa
-White-lipped Tree Frog
-Golfodulcean Poison Dart Frog
-Oriental Fire-bellied Toad
-Starry Night Reed Frog
-Splashback Poison Dart Frog
-Swift Woodlouse*
-Zebra Pillbug*
-Common Rough Woodlouse*
-Powder Blue Isopod*
-Dubia Roach
-Flightless Fruit Fly
-Superworm
-Hornworm
-Tropical House Cricket (no publicly-visible enclosure without purchase, though obviously visible in many enclosures throughout the facility)

Animal Ambassadors Seen
-African Fat-tailed Gecko
-Suriname Red-tailed Boa
-Central Bearded Dragon

Free-roaming: African Spurred Tortoise, Leopard Tortoise

*nearly all exhibit terrariums in both the Reptile Zoo and the Invert Cave are bio-active, so these species *are* technically on exhibit in multiple enclosures unsigned.
 
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Is this Snake Discovery in Maplewood, MN? How was your visit and would you happen to have any photos of the exhibits or animals you can show on here?

Off the bat the kukri snake and Cook's Boa are really cool surprises to hear they keep.
 
SusScrofa said:
Is this Snake Discovery in Maplewood, MN? How was your visit and would you happen to have any photos of the exhibits or animals you can show on here?

Off the bat the kukri snake and Cook's Boa are really cool surprises to hear they keep.
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Yes, this is Snake Discovery in Maplewood, MN, of YouTube fame. I had a great time here. I have photos that I'll get to around uploading eventually, hopefully sometime in the next couple weeks.
 
birdsandbats said:
@Coelacanth18 I beleive there's a few species here not in your thread, correct? Like the Pixie Frog and the cribo?
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Looks like a few, yeah - per my skimming: the Pixie Frog, the Japanese Rat Snake (Elaphe climacophora), and the Northern Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni). These are all species present in the private trade though. A couple of species from the pet store section may also not have been in the survey, but of course I've been to reptile specialty stores and expos and they typically have many species that aren't usually seen in zoos.

Black-tailed Cribo (Drymarchon melanurus) is another name for Middle American Indigo Snake, which is a native species and was indeed found in a few facilities I surveyed.
 
birdsandbats said:
Turtle Touch Tank: Common Map Turtle, Spiny Softshell Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, Southern Painted Turtle, Common Plecostomus
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That's....interesting. I've never heard of this before. How common are turtle touch tanks? Especially since a good-sized Softshell Turtle can inflict wounds if they bite.
 
Astrotom3000 said:
That's....interesting. I've never heard of this before. How common are turtle touch tanks? Especially since a good-sized Softshell Turtle can inflict wounds if they bite.
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I know the reptarium (utica mi) has a touch tank with turtles which holds red eared sliders and musk turtles.
 
Astrotom3000 said:
That's....interesting. I've never heard of this before. How common are turtle touch tanks? Especially since a good-sized Softshell Turtle can inflict wounds if they bite.
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This is the first time I've ever seen a turtle touch tank.
Zoo adventures said:
They even have Bowser the snapping turtle in that touch tank. They will be moved to the Legasea when it is done. For anyone wondering, it is Brian Barczyk, the youtube channel.
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There was no snapping turtle in the tank on this visit at least.
 
Chlidonias said:
This string of posts about a Snapping Turtle has become a little confusing - just to be clear, is the discussion now about two different facilities?
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I'm confused, too. As far as I can tell, they are now discussing a different facility. While Snake Discovery does have a snapping turtle, it is not in the touch tank or accessible to visitors in any way.
 
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