I agree with everything stated above and have a friend that has been keeping a couple cornsnakes together for a couple years without any problems. Small snakes such as Red-bellied snakes tend to do well together also but regardless of what species you end up deciding to house together you will either need to VERY closely supervise feeding or just feed them separately. I would recommend just feeding separately. Even with species that never eat other snakes it is possible for any species to smell the food that their cage-mate is eating, grab onto its other end, and start eating. Once the two snakes meet half way down the prey item one inevitably will work itself right over the other and swallow it.

In my personal opinion you absolutely should NOT house any kingsnakes together. The same can be said for milks but kings are MUCH more likely to eat their own species. My girlfriend once told me a story about some hatchling kingsnakes at a petsore she used to work at that escaped their enclosure and somehow made it into an aquarium with a juvenile kingsnake. In the morning they found an empty hatchling tank and a very fat kingsnake next door. woops...

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