naaaah.
Last summer I had 6.6 babies, kept each gender in seperate 24 quart sterilite containers, aspen shavings as the substrate, a water bowl in each, and newspaper for the snakes to hide under.

I would throw a couple pinkies into each colony every couple of days, change the water. No pinkies ever were left uneaten the next day. And if I'd single out a snake and try to feed it a pinky would go for it. Some having kingsnake-like feeding responses. One day when changing waterbowls I found a dead baby one with a pinky a little too big for that snake halfway in it's mouth. Sucks.
Some of the snakes I sold, so snakes disappeared from each colony, then I just kept feeding them the same way.
Neglected them a little. Didn't pay attention to them for a while. Kept feeding them the same, just didn't really check on any of them, all the snakes would be hiding when I threw food in or changed the water bowls.

Probably a month and a half, two months goes by, I had someone interested in buying some of the house snakes, so I went to see how many of each sex I had. One of the females was pretty big, when I first got them they were tiny, probably 8". This one female was around 13", and all the other snakes got considerably bigger too.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles
www.kingpinreptiles.com

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