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I know kings will eat other snakes and I know the smell of a king can sometimes set of a cornsnake among other snakes.

My question is will housing kings in the same rack unit as corn snakes, and other snakes, cause the non kings to stress out too much?

I am getting a vision rack setup for many varieties of snakes I currently have or am getting. I was planning on getting a pair of thayeri kings as well but if the odor will cause the rest of the colony to freak out I'll wait until I have a spare rack unit to devote to varieties of kingsnake.

Any info from those of you with experience keeping corns and kings would be greatly appreciated.

I keep my kings and corns (and milks) in a sweaterbox rack system. I've been doing it for years and haven't noticed any signs of the non-kings being stressed. I keep eastern kings and Mexican blacks. I sometimes wonder if the visual stimulus of seeing a king would be the trigger to making a corn "freak out," rather than simply the scent of one. I usually handle my kings first, and then my corns, and the corns don't seem to react negatively.

Tim

Third Eye

I have about 6 cal kings, 2 thayeri, and a jungle corn(king/corn cross JUST FOR A PET) along with my corns in the same room, but i never have any problems. but i'd definately handle the kings before the corns. I have a female albino striped cal king and a high white reverse spotted male that will both freak out if they smell corns on me when i pick them up afterwards...but nothing the other way around... most of my corns were raised here and probably got used to the smell... same with most my kings except the 2 adult kings that freak out. and i have quite a list of critters!!! check out below!!!
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNAKIES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Corns:
.1 Normal (Gertrude) [just a pet...she started it all]
1. Orange normal (Romeo)
1.2 Miami Phase (Hector, Emily, Charlotte) thanks jeff!
2. Miami Phase part zigzag (Starkey, Mcvitty)[Emilys F2]
1. Amel het Blizzard (Dunesbury) .1 Blizzard (Detta)
1. Classic het Hypo, poss het Amel, Anery (Cobra)
1.1 Classics (Henry VIII, Cassy) [Emilys F1 babies]
1.1 Sunglow Amel (NO NAME, Pepperoni)
1.1 Hypo zig zags poss HET Caramel (Bernard, Abegail)
.1 Hypo HET Stripe (Gracie Lou) 1. Hypo Stripe (Gideon)
1.1 Anery HET Motley (Lleroy, Persia)
.2 Candy Cane (Peaches HoneyBlossom[Just a pet], Tamale)
1.1 Abbotts Okeetee (Albert[Charlottes son], NO NAME)
1.1 Snow (Crickle, Isis) .1 Green Snow (Maya)
1. Caramel poss HET Butter (Topher)
.1 Anery stripe (V) [husbands snake...he named it]
.1 Orange Reverse Okeetee (Lonna)
1.2 Bloodred HET Amel 1. Amel HET Bloodred

Others:
1. Black rat (Willard)
1.1 Striped Cal Kings (Dweezil, Skunky)
1.1 High-white Reverse Spotted Cal King (Wishbone, NO NAME)
.1 Albino Stripe Cal King (Eve)
.1 Banana spotted/stripe cal king (Speckle) Thanks Jeff!!!
1.1 Thayeri (Giuseppe[MSP], Cheyenne)
1.1 Creamsicle HET Motley(Orangejello, Genevieve)
1. Creamsicle motley (Montey) Thanks Jimmy!!
1. Albino Striped Jungle Corn (NO NAME)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~LIZARDS~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 Blizzard Leopard Gecko(Blitz)
.1? High yellow Leopard Gecko(no name)
1. Bearded Dragon (no name)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLES~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)
.1 snapping turtle (Snappy Jaws)

I am keeping corns and kings together in the same sweaterbox rack system, and i have not encountered any problems.

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Arlon Delorge
Classic Constrictors

yeah i dont think it would bother your corns too much, you just gotta worry about your kings occasionaly gettin worked up , specialy this time of year

you shouldnt have any trouble at all, i would suggest that you house corns below kings and milks in a rack system.

i have had a few corns stressed by housing them above kings/milks due to the strong scents being pushed up by heat convection in the rack situation. moving corns to the lower racks stopped the issue.

Anery PueblaCorn het Amel

Paul.

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www.uk-hybrids.com

that is one awesome animal i love aneries and when they look like that it makes them even better.
i have a couple of 06 babies that i will be using for a anery/ghost sinacorn project in the next few years.
thanks for the pic
adam
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hybrid breeders association
1.1 sinacorns
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 mbk
1.1 albino corns
1.3 ghost corns
1.0 snow corns
1.0 jurassic milk
0.1 bloodred
0.1 striped albino corn
0.1 childrens python
0.1 albino nelsons
0.1 anery motley
0.1 albino banded cal king
0.1 normal corn het hypo,anery
0.1 hypo tang hondo

Thanks Adam

Yeah i love the anerys to, they just keep getting cleaner and we also keep them 50/50.

we should have some butters this year along with normals anerys amels and snows.. will post on the hybrid forum as and when they hatch..

be sure to keep us posted on that Anery/ghost project of yours, should be real cool.

Paul.

Ps: sorry to all you corn only guys for the hybrid chat,, but at least its corn related.

Bloodred Pueblacorn.

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www.uk-hybrids.com

I'm new to the colubrids and I've never seen one like the one you just posted! NICE!

Thank you all for all the info and experience. I'll go ahead and get what I was planning on since it sounds like should work out