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Kerby...
at Sun Feb 27 18:14:48 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kerby... ]
**What's interesting to me is the color of this snake, sometimes it looks black & white and other times it looks brown and off white.**
Take your snake outside in the sunlight, THAT will show you the TRUE color of your snake. Way better than florescent light, way better than UV light. Odds are, your "black" & white cal king is really a hard brown & white, especially as they get older. Cal kings change from babies to adults (not as drastic as cornsnakes though). Whites can turn to cream/yellow as they age, and black can turn into brown.
**Another question... I was told yesterday that kings tend to be very "cage aggressive" or territorial and that it is better to feed them in a different enclosure, so that they don't associate the feeding/hunting agression with their enclosure, and are less likely to strike when you reach in. Is there any truth in this, and does feeding them in a seperate area indeed help with that**
If you don't have that many snakes, then I would say yes, feed in a separate container. They can get a "condition-response" behavior. Since I have too many snakes and feed in the same enclosure, I have "learned" to change the water dish AFTER feeding my snakes! LOL
Kerby...
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If you want to see the TRUE color of your snake.... - Kerby..., Sun Feb 27 18:14:48 2005