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HappyCamper
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underwater lights and SNAKES!
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4/16/2007 12:37:36 PM
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I can't say for sure because I do not have an underwater light, but I am afraid it would also attract SNAKEsssss. Don't get me wrong. I think that light is really cool and it would be fun to watch the fish, turtles and frogs, kinda like the Georgia Aquarium after dark. I know some folks think nothing is cuter than a big old moccasin having a candelight supper, but I hate snakes.
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roswellric
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Not to mention
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4/16/2007 4:15:31 PM
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green lights are a little kitschy.... not natural. Where are all the lake purists on this one?
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au67
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underwater lights and SNAKES!
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4/16/2007 5:13:56 PM
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This link says we're making the fish deaf. These underwater lights will most likely make them blind.
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-15-deaf-fish_N.htm
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Edge
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underwater lights and SNAKES!
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4/16/2007 6:17:54 PM
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I have not seen any snakes around mine yet, but I have only had them a few weeks and the weather has not got the snakes very active yet. I will keep everyone update as the weather starts to get a little hotter.
The green monster does allow you to trip the gfci breaker to turn the light(s) off if you do not want them on while you are maybe swimming or down by the water?
Edge
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HappyCamper
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underwater lights and SNAKES!
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4/16/2007 7:46:51 PM
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If you build it they will come. It would do no good to turn it off when you want to play. They would still be there. In the dark.
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MotorMan
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wrong
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4/16/2007 10:01:48 PM
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you said
"I can't say for sure because I do not have an underwater light, ......"
YOU can;t say at all. You have no experrience. Snakes avoid light. Watch tv. Snakes hide under rocks.
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MythBuster
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wrong
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4/16/2007 11:06:21 PM
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Yes, when you want to know the answer to something, "Watch tv." Because TV is always right. </sarcasm>
I can't say for sure that underwater lights attract snakes, or repel them. But I do know this: I have seen snakes around lights at night. Why were they there? Probably for the same reasons that some other animals were: they were attracted to the food source that was attracted to the light. Lights attract bugs, bugs attract small fish, small fist attract large fish. But large fish are not the only things that eat small fish; water snakes also eat small fish, so it only makes sense that a light that attracts small fish will also attract snakes.
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MotorMan
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My point was
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4/17/2007 4:03:23 AM
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On sunny days it is easy to see snakes in the Spring warming up on the tops of rocks.
My point is his statement proves nothing. Same as "I do not have a flying saucer or a radio transmitter, but Earth's RF transmissions may attract them".
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Lakeman
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wrong
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4/17/2007 8:13:00 AM
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I do know that light attracts snakes because I have seen them in the daylight. I have one of the lights in question but have never seen a snake at night. I see plenty of fish at night. Some are so big they block out the light. If I were a snake I would bite them because they will surely eat a snake.
On that thought, just think about it. What would a snake, in his/her right mind be doing out among monsters that are known to eat them. Which brings us to this. Your concerns aren't legitimate nor do you much about what you speak. Your only concern is fear and we all know that the only thing we fear is fear itself.
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Lakeman
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wrong
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4/17/2007 8:17:53 AM
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Sorry. Your concerns aren't legitimate nor do you know much about what you speak.
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HappyCamper
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wrong or not
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4/17/2007 8:41:27 AM
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It's possible the light attracts snakes. That's all I was trying to say. I like the theory that the light attracts the big fish who eat the little snakes therefore keeping the little snakes from growing into big snakes who eat the little fish. Or something like that.....
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Lakeman
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wrong or not
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4/17/2007 11:07:53 AM
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LOL. I gottcha. For years It was said around the campfires on the lake and river banks that snakes come to light. I never saw one but I was always looking. Weren't no underwater lights back then that I know of.
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PC Al
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Frog-gigging
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4/17/2007 12:12:06 PM
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I don’t know about underwater lights, but for anyone that has been frog-gigging (old folks only), I am convinced snakes will come to above water lights. Actually had one come in the boat one night many, many years ago. We left the boat with my uncle firing his 22 at the snake in the boat. Came back the next morning and the boat had several small holes in the bottom, but no dead snake. Anyway, I have seen moccasins come swimming toward a light many times.
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Lakeman
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Frog-gigging
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4/17/2007 12:47:33 PM
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I left a couple boats myself at Ponders Nursery years ago when a snake bought it from me.
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LifeTime Laker
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Frog-gigging..LMAO
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4/17/2007 1:00:12 PM
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Lights attract bugs, small fish, frogs.
Snakes eat all of these!!
Lights may not attract snakes, but food does.
I know that the underwater lights do not attract as many bugs, but they do attract some.
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| Name: |
ot
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underwater lights and SNAKES!
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4/17/2007 1:19:07 PM
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my neighbor has an underwater light....installed it last spring. so far, no increase in snakes.....
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| Name: |
Edge
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underwater lights and SNAKES!
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4/17/2007 2:27:11 PM
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Maybe the reason people think that light attracks snakes is b/c the light allows them to see the snakes. The snakes are they in the same capacity in the dark, you just cannot see them?
Just a thought.
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Tallyman
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underwater lights and SNAKES!
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4/17/2007 9:33:03 PM
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If you catch a couple of moccasins, tie them to a line, and tow them behind your pontoon boat, you will have Snakes on a Plane.
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| Name: |
Lakeman
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underwater lights and SNAKES!
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4/18/2007 12:11:06 AM
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I trolled with a couple snakes one time while my wife was in the boat. When the boat ran out of gas it came to a sudden halt creating a huge aft wake that washed the snakes up by the motor. My wife asked what caused the red ring around the snakes necks. I told her the snakes weren't used to stopping that fast.
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