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These are some pics of my desert king that you guys been helping me with today. Today he ate a hopper that I just purchased frozen from petco. This hopper is a tad smaller and I mean tad smaller then the one he had trouble with the past month. As you can see, I believe he is past the fuzzy stage, but still too small for Mice, so its hit and miss with the hopper size, I lucked out that I found a smaller size hopper..King does look alittle


bigger in these pics then he really is...enjoy..thanks

That's a real nice looking splendida!. It looks like it has decent body weight as well, as it's neck isn't thin compared to it's head, and the portion of it's tail towards the cloaca(vent) looks good and full.

That is also a pefect sized meal for that sized snake in my opinion.

I all seems okay to me,....thanks for the pic.

It might be a little small for a yearling, but not everything can be a hulking monster..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

cool king. ya got a mate for that?
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Doug L

No mate..in fact, I have no idea if its a he or she

send us a few pics from the side and bottom of her tail)lower 1/3
the guys here ca ID(gender)it for you
post it as a seperate topic so you get more traffic
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Doug L

pretty kingsnake! I like the deserts, really sweet looking critters

While the size is appropriate, I'd feed it two of those, but hey, that's just me. It appears to me that snake is between 22-24" long. A month on doubles and it could handle an adult. If it doesn't eat the second mouse, I'll eat my hat! good thing it's made of gingerbread!

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Todd Hughes

pretty animal. nice to see someone providing more than adequate housing size. and nice that you inlcuded the ruler for reference; too often we forget to do that.