I like snakes & have been bitten many times by the Northern Banded Water Snake & Black Racers. I would pretty much gaurantee unless you hold his head you WILL get bitten unlike more docile snakes I've handled. But I don't want them in my pond. They don't grow big by not eating & I'd rather that weight & length was on my fish. I've found small fish, tadpoles, frogs, crawfish & bugs in the ones I dispatch.
