Mike,

First of I am not jumping onto you, but rather sharing information with others as some people just don't get it about what bonding is or hwo to do it.

When we refer to bonding it has to start at a very early age of the kingsnake.

You just can't throw two old unreleted kings together and leave them together and say they are bonded. That is not how the bonding process works!



The way I do it with Florida kings is I wait until they are feeding on hoppers and then put them together during winter.

They stay together for life. I have groups I keep of 3 in larger cages and I feed them FT chicks and they usually bite onto each other.. but I learned a long time ago as I sat and watched what happened instead of intervening.. they let go and then go after the food.

So it is common for bonded snakes to latch on to each other by mistake.. but they do let go every single time . All my pairs and trios do this during feeding anyway. Somebody else might freak out if they saw that. I don't bother to watch or look back..(I got way to many set up in bonded groups to keep an eye on them anyway) I just leave the room. No worries.

You can't do tis with snakes that were not bonded properly.. this is where the MISinformation comes in .. As one poster mentioned above mistakenly . Bonding does not happen as an illusion because we feed the snakes so much, LOL!.. BONDING is a process and cannot use just any two large adults that are unknown to each other to start bonding by throwing them together , no matter how long they are together.. that is not what bonding is.

The process has been posted before many times. But people tend to not look at what is involved with proper bonding and as such their eyes glass over and then they spread a lot of misinformation.. which is being passed on and from people who have never tried the process or bothered to even understand or look at it closer.



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