In all my travels in Texas and the untold hours I've spent out of doors, I have never run across a Milk Snake, Coral Snakes...yes, many times. Very COOL find!

As already noted, most folks would have killed it for a Coral Snake, not knowing the difference.



Of course, it is well to know that the color pattern for a Coral Snake (Red touch Yellow) only applies to the indigenous Corals of the United States, there are actually Coral snakes in other regions of the world that have 'Red touch Black' patterns (among others) that are indeed venomous snakes.

The Scarlet Kingsnake is another snake that is often mis-identified, but doesn't range too far into Texas.

What a great find...and my hat is off to you for taking good care of the milksnake.

Flint.

Actually, there's no such creature as a Coral King Snake. We have both Louisiana Milk Snakes (lampropeltis triangulum amaura) and the similarly patterned Scarlet King Snake (lampropeltis elapsoides), but they both get called Coral King Snakes. It's not correct, but that's the way it is.

The old saying is not always true. We caught this Texas Long Nose at our house several years ago and red does touch yellow.

Pretty cool find.

I found one in West Virginia when I was deer hunting once. It was about the size of the one you have pictured. Extremely pretty snake.

very cool

Very pretty snake. Had I found it I would have had to buy an aquarium, heat rock, mousies . . .

Cool snake.

Exactly

Oh man... please do not let kids play with snakes... they get the wrong message then end up in the hospital...

100% agree

ugh!