hmmm, you bring up a good question about eastern being more snake eaters than Floridas . So does that there is a risk with bonded pairs?





I would kinda agree that easterns are more likely to eat "other" snakes. I have had some eastern locales that were snake eaters. And very stubborn to switch over. I think any eastern king breeder wcan tell you that oif they work with certain locales.



but I have fed my Florida others snakes as well. I usually give them stillborn babies of various spp that were either deformed or undeveloped. I even give these to my neonates that just hatched.



They seem to know a dead snake and different species are food. Just like they smell a mouse and know.



I have kept a few eatserns over the years. I kept edisto Islands, s. Ga easterns,mosaics, intergrades ect.



i bred and produced quite a number of FL x eatserns about 15-20 years ago. i bred the s. Ga easterns to the hypo Floridas. They behaved just like all my floridas even though they offsprng i rasied up were 50/50. Nevr had any problens and they were cohabitaing yr round.





So yes they are more inclinded to be snake feeders. But does that mean they will eat each other if bonded? ,,,i don't know. I don't think experimenting with a half dozen for a few years would give the statistics . I know for sure with teh Floridas and man made FL integrades, because I have kept many together over many years.







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