It's gotta be the saliva.

Say a regal ringneck snake, about 20" long gets into a little battle with a 13" california kingsnake. From what I've observed during live feeding trials, there is a 90% chance the regal will strike and nail the prey on the neck/head area. The kingsnake will probably flip, which once this happens, the prey gets cut. I actually had to clean blood off the side of an enclosure the other day because the garter did such.

Once the blood is flowing, the venom is flowing. And their venom is quite strong.

I don't believe a ringneck snake could take a kingsnake if the venom didn't affect them. A kingsnake would be able to fight it off easily. If... they had no venom.

But about 3-6 minutes after the bite of a 'venomous' ringneck snake, the king will start showing signs of paralyis.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
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• Ringneck Vs. Kingsnake Part Deux - Snakesunlimited1, Sun Sep 18 19:26:38 2005
• I think.... - TobyEKing, Sun Sep 18 20:16:48 2005
• RE: Ringneck Vs. Kingsnake Part Deux - crimsonking, Sun Sep 18 22:51:15 2005
• RE: Mark you can joke about it - HerperHelmz, Sun Sep 18 23:14:44 2005
• Mike.. - crimsonking, Mon Sep 19 04:24:05 2005
• RE: Mark.... - HerperHelmz, Mon Sep 19 06:06:15 2005
• Ringneck predation..C new post down below... n/txt - regalringneck, Mon Sep 19 07:58:22 2005
• check out this reference.... - Joe Forks, Mon Sep 19 14:16:09 2005
• RE: check out this reference.... - HerperHelmz, Mon Sep 19 15:04:20 2005
• RE: check out this reference.... - Joe Forks, Mon Sep 19 15:17:37 2005
• RE: check out this reference.... - HerperHelmz, Mon Sep 19 18:38:00 2005
• RE:Thanks Joe - snakesunlimited1, Mon Sep 19 19:00:00 2005
• RE:Thanks Joe - HerperHelmz, Mon Sep 19 19:49:35 2005
• RE:Thanks Joe - snakesunlimited1, Mon Sep 19 20:45:08 2005
• RE:Thanks Joe - HerperHelmz, Mon Sep 19 21:27:14 2005
• ....U fool Michael.... - regalringneck, Mon Sep 19 22:26:13 2005
• RE: ....U should be nicer... - snakesunlimited1, Mon Sep 19 23:06:29 2005
• ....U should be nicer...Uuu'r... - regalringneck, Tue Sep 20 07:21:08 2005
• RE: - HerperHelmz, Tue Sep 20 10:50:08 2005
• .... check out this reference.... - regalringneck, Tue Sep 20 07:16:27 2005