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Anybody know how to pull off the breeding without ending with one snake?
How do you breed these two snakes together? (Corn Snakes x California Kingsnake)

-Ryan

The best way is to have at least one pair of each kings and corns. Put the pairs together in their own separate enclosures. Once the males are excited quickly switch the females before the males lock up. This will require some carful timing.

Also make sure that the kings are very well fed. The day before you try to breed feed the kings as much as they will take so there should be little chance they will try to eat their prospective mates. Never leave king snakes alone with another snake, even other kings. The female king is the most likely to try to eat the other snake. Male kings will often bite their mate behind the head, this should not be confused with predatory agression.

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1.0 normal BP Nicodemus
1.0 BP Moufasa pos vanilla, fire, cinny
0.4 Cal Kings 3 alb 1 het Dora Queen Ace Pearl
2.0 Alb Corn Bizaar Elixir
0.0.1 Rev Alb Nelsons Oden

>>Anybody know how to pull off the breeding without ending with one snake?
>>How do you breed these two snakes together? (Corn Snakes x California Kingsnake)
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>>-Ryan

Use a male Corn with a female King. Male kings tend to bite the neck/head of the snake they are mating with and a female corn will have none of that. So best thing to do is get the male corn with a female corn and when he is riding the female corn switch him over the the female king. It takes a little patience, but it's worth it!




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www.mesozoicreptiles.com

do like they said....you can also use shed skins to trick snakes ...

I tried all this before...long ago...2 pair of snakes...all worked up...breed anything they would (males)...soon as I'd switch...male king would look at female and stop...female corn would look at king and run...or just stop...I tried and tried...I had the king breed a wooden handle but never the corn....really...LOL....they KNOW what they are with.....they can smell you mixed it up....keep trying...you might get it...I never did....easier to just buy them.....

my Cal kings NEVER ate another snake....(yes some will)....mine would not....left corns with them for days....tried garters in off season...never ate a snake...

even my milks would not interbreed sub-species usually....pueblan ,sinaloan, anulata, none of those would cross / mix either....I know..milks will breed any milk usually....but here they can always smell other's of there sub-species...maybe it helped them....
(stuarti and hondo did cross...had no male stuarti though)...

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