Two massive pythons mating in a roof space of a home in Australia smashed through the ceiling leaving the couple residing inside baffled. Photos of the enormous snakes were shared by Cairns Snake Catcher on its Facebook page.

Matt Hagan, a snake catcher who responded to the emergency, said he arrived at the home after the couple informed that they noticed their ceiling was cracking under the enormous serpents' 90 pounds combined weight.

When Hagan arrived at the home, he found the two pythons, which were each 15-foot-long, the Daily Mail reported. The snake catcher removed a portion of the roofing to reach the snakes that led to the weakened ceiling collapsing completely.

"Once they fell through and landed in their office all hell broke loose. I had to get down there and subdue two snakes in very quick succession," Hagan reportedly said.

In a post on Facebook, he wrote: "Breeding season is off with a BANG....in the roof... Extracting this dynamic duo was no easy feat and ultimately resulted in the ceiling giving way as these snakes made a particularly dramatic entry into the office!"

"Now is the time of year for ceiling spaces around Cairns to come alive at night with the sound of scrub pythons as they form breeding aggregations. If you are lucky enough to host a scrub python party in your roof space this breeding season (end of July to late September) it can get pretty wild as males fight each other to impress females. Occasionally these interactions can result in strange smells wafting through different rooms, and even structural damage to your house in the form or ceiling stains or cracks," he went on to write.

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This representational image shows a python on a tree inside his enclosure at the Dhupguri snake park in India, Feb. 8, 2006. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
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