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whats the story? is it kings or milks that eat other snakes and shouldnt be housed in groups?
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my addiction:
2 ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (maizy

>>whats the story? is it kings or milks that eat other snakes and shouldnt be housed in groups?

Both will eat snakes, as will some cobras, and several other species and individuals of 'non' cannibals. I have seen both Garter snakes and ringnecks eat other snakes.
No snakes should be housed in groups. You are putting the smaller or less assertive or aggressive snakes constantly under stress. If one is sick how do you know which. They share germs. They via for the best spots and have to compete. Snakes are not social.
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Sonya

Haven't we warned you about tampering with the structure of a chaotic system?
Mrs. Neutron

Very true. Too many snakes to list will eat other snakes. Even garters and ringnecks have been known to eat others during a feeding frenzy.

The disease issue is also a very good reason to not put non breeding snakes together.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

I may be paranoid (ok, I AM paranoid), but I never assume that any of my snakes would be totally above eating another snake.