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do you house your male and female together all the time or only when you want them to breed?

also, do you sell any of your babies.. i love your snakes.. very beautiful..

I've kept my male and female together since they were sub-adults (June 2000). They bred in 2002 and had 15 babies. I'm hesitant to cop to this but I introduced the two babies I kept to the large enclosure in late February of this year. Originally, I was just going to keep one and house 3 (two females, one male) in the enclosure but...
My enclosure is large (6x4x3) and has lots of vertical space as well as horizontal and is heated by incandescent night lights that create a wide temperature gradient. So far everyone seems content and all are eating regularly and shedding perfectly.
The introduction of the sub-abults this year spurred the male to get frisky but it does not appear that she is pregnant.
Thanks for the compliment, I think they are beautiful too.

thank you for your info.. i just might try keeping my male and female together after i quaranteen the male for a couple of months.

also, is your enclosure made by you or did you buy it. if you bought it, where from?

i was planning on keeping my male and female in a 75 gallon tank. would this be a big enough tank for both of them as adults?

I had the enclosure made for me by a local guy here in Sacramento. Supposedly he moved to Arizona and is making enclosures for a company that does displays for zoo's. He really was talented and the display he did for me really shows off these incredible snakes.
I've got my male Brook's Kingsnake in a 90 gal. aquarium and its 4'x18"x20" and I'm trying to picture two big BRB's in there. I would think this would be a minimum size for two adults. I'm not sure the dimensions of a 75 gal. but probably narrower. I just think bigger is better but thats me (and from experience I can tell you they will utilize all the area afforded them). As long as both snakes can access temps in the mid to high seventies without getting in each others way then it should be ok (what would be bad is if you had the setup heated by one source and one area being at an optimum temp of 78 and only one snake could be there at a time). A deep bed of Orchid bark covered with moss allows them to burrow and increases the number of hiding places greatly.
Definitly feed them in a separate enclosure.
There are risks but you can minimize them by feeding F/T and being anal about the husbandry.
Hope this helps,
Paul

>>I had the enclosure made for me by a local guy here in Sacramento. Supposedly he moved to Arizona and is making enclosures for a company that does displays for zoo's. He really was talented and the display he did for me really shows off these incredible snakes.
>>I've got my male Brook's Kingsnake in a 90 gal. aquarium and its 4'x18"x20" and I'm trying to picture two big BRB's in there. I would think this would be a minimum size for two adults. I'm not sure the dimensions of a 75 gal. but probably narrower. I just think bigger is better but thats me (and from experience I can tell you they will utilize all the area afforded them). As long as both snakes can access temps in the mid to high seventies without getting in each others way then it should be ok (what would be bad is if you had the setup heated by one source and one area being at an optimum temp of 78 and only one snake could be there at a time). A deep bed of Orchid bark covered with moss allows them to burrow and increases the number of hiding places greatly.
>>Definitly feed them in a separate enclosure.
>>There are risks but you can minimize them by feeding F/T and being anal about the husbandry.
>>Hope this helps,
>>Paul
>>

A 75G has the same footprint as a 90G but not as tall.
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Hope this helps.

BigT