I have been keeping my Florida kings together for decades and not one act cannibalism. Not one death due to two snakes fighting over a meal..THEY LET GO! Go figure? HA HA, that is what surprised me when I stopped trying to force them apart. . Now for years I just pile in the food and walk away. I have so many snakes I couldn't keep watch even if I wanted to. But what I saw was that bonded snakes do sometimes grab each other due to feeding response (especially when the food is first thrown into their cage). But then they also let go. Yes, if you give them the chance and do not separate them. They will figure it out by themselves.



I can't say that for Florida kings which are not bonded properly or when two unknown adults are introduced at a older age.



What I think these folks are simply not reading or refusing to understand the process. Please correct me if I am wrong here? Also they deny bonding takes place in nature.



This subject has come up so many times and with so much animosity

over making it about people and not the snakes is harmful to herptoculture as a whole, it is like you said it becomes about people and not the snakes. Every little sub group is fight amongst themselves because of hurt egos. That is really the problem is egos? Or is it something else? Please tell me what it is?

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