Doug,
You are mistaken. I house all my brooks together year round but never new hatclings after shed. They certainly will eat each other and it is a bad idea to house them when they are striking at every movement around them..

What to do is wait until the snakes are feeding size on hoppers or small mice and then introduce them. That is what i do. I even start them when they are onhoppers and never have a problem with them going after one another.

I just put together 10 hopper size Florida kings together in one cage unit last week. i did this to save cage space. So far no problems with them killing or eating each other. I just am careful with the first few feedings and make sure they are not starving.

I would recomend for a novice to wait until brumation to introduce florida kings for the first time. just because i seem to have so much experince with housing them, i know what to watch out for and sorta have a green thumb for brooksi. With a novice i am alway shocked and afriad of the lack of common sense they have when it comes to snakes. So there is no telling what they might do to entice the snakes to cannibalize. One example is i see a lot of very smnall 3 and 4 year old florida king posted on here. There is no way a 2-4 year floridana should still be 20" inches.
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