Snake in fishtank/ID?

"Bob in PA" wrote in message
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Figured everyone might find this interesting, sorry
for the cross
post. -

I got a frantic phone call yesterday from my
girlfriend who said
something about a snake in the fishtank. After I got her
to calm down, the
story went something like this: She had gone
downstairs into her
fathers fish room to feed the fish, and saw a tail
sticking up from the
water. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be an
18" snake curled
up in 55 gallon sword tail tank.
The really interesting part is this; the snake had to
A) get in the
house and into the finished basement. B) climb up a table
of approx. 3 feet
high. C) climb up into the 18 inch high tank. Here is a
link to a picture,
can anyone ID it for me?
http://trains99.tripod.com/snake.html
I know it's not poisonous, and I'm thinking some kind
garter snake? I'm
in SE Pennsylvania.

Bob

That's a great story. I can't see the snake well enough
to even try to identify it, but an Internet search showed
plenty of snake/herps sites for PA. Sounds like a very
enterprising snake. I hope you can give it a good home!

Gail
San Antonio TX

In rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc Gail Futoran wrote:

I hope you can give it a good home!

If it wasn't happy, it would have left by now.

Warm, wet and a good supply of fresh food (until the swords are
all gone.

Sammy the snake has left the building and is on his way to a new home.
Before he left, I got some better pictures of him.

http://trains99.tripod.com/snake.html

These are scaled down, the originals are almost 5 megapixels big. If
anyone wants them, I'll put them up on my page.

Bob