Two male pythons fighting it out in a roof cavity have crashed into a pantry, shocking an elderly resident and prompting an expert warning about snake mating season.

The brawling carpet pythons, each around two metres long, dropped through a manhole above the pantry at a home on Russell Island, near Brisbane, on Tuesday night.

Video of the clash shows the two snakes writhing on the floor, their bodies entwined.

Reptile rescuer and rehabilitator Trish Harris, who was called to the home, said she had seen plenty of snakes, but the duo were huge.

The elderly occupant of the home heard a noise in his kitchen and found the battling snakes on the floor, prompting him to call triple zero before Ms Harris was brought in.

"It's the middle of the mating season and they'd been fighting in the ro

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