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Xenochrophis piscator
It was a baby. hardly the thickness of my finger...and it seemed all brown in the dark. But I see there is a checkered pattern...and so I think it is a checkered keelback.If so, it is non venomous.
My garden. It wriggled out under the gate, fell into the open rainwater drain and swam away.
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I bet he was looking for food then! You left him living, I'm sure he enjoyed a feast soon after :)
Thanks, Ashley...it was really cute and it tried to blend into the shadow of the wall! It had rained earlier and the termites were out and toad babies and lizards were having a feast; I think snakeling wanted to join the feast and I ruined it.
I agree with checkered keelback. Pattern matches and so does the stripe behind the eye. What a cutie!