Okay, so you have only TWO snakes... corn and king... chances are you won't be able to cross them (though you can certainly try).
So you have More than two of each kind.... you have a shot...
If you breed a male king to a female corn, you get more babies. BUT kings are real stud-muffins.... they are little energizer breeders... I've had some of mine breed for eight hours! Corns on the other hand, are little masters of the QUICKIE.... Oooh, a girl! Hi Babe. Thanks Babe. Bye Babe.... once they decide they wanna mate it's wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am. SO.... if the male is a king, the female may get to thinking "aren't you done YET?" and might disengage before the kingsnake has finished his business. If you are successful, remember that the size and quantity of eggs is usually genetically determined by the dam, so you could get a nice large clutch.
If you breed a female king to a male corn, he'll do a quick job, but again, the female determines the size of the clutch, so the clutch size will be smaller.
NOW... getting them to actually BREED is a different story...
You could just try putting them together and see what happens. NEVER EVER LEAVE A CORN AND A KING TOGETHER FOR EVEN A MINUTE. I recently heard of someone who was surprised and saddened to return 45 minutes after placing his corn with his king and find only the king left behind. Ooopsie.
Chances are you won't get them to breed that easily. What you could do is have a pair of corns, and a pair of kings, get them to start to tango simultaneously and then switch them out to see if their libido is enough to sustain them through the "act".
There are other methods.... like if you have the king in the cage with the two corns getting ready to tango, then at the last second you manually put the king where the corn will connect. He'll never notice the difference and voila!
It's NOT as easy as it sounds. I'm WAY TOO LAZY to get it right, probably. A couple of times I've placed unlike kinds together and watched, and luckily no attempts at eating, but no attempts at breeding either. Just two snakes looking at each other and me as if to say "What the heck am I doing in here with THAT ugly thing!"
Next year my hopes are that my one hybrid snake, a Jurassic Milk, will find one of my Albino Corns interesting enough to breed to. He might also get an opportunity to tango with one of my aberrant banana kings, and maybe even a pyro. A lot depends on what males I have to pair them up with.
>>I have a baby king snake that is a year old of of today and I have 4 cornsnake eggs that are about to hatch but are haveing some problems. I noticed that 1 of the 4 eggs is about 40% coverd with a funges or something. I hope they hatch before it kills the egg. They should hatch in about 2 weeks.
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>>I would like to try to bread the corn with the king when they get older. Can anyone give me any tips and ideas on how to do this? As cool as it may be to watch one snake eat another. I dont want to lose any of my fine friends. and also...
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~Sasheena
