you do hear horror stories every now and then.. I know it's not very common, but a good friend of mine just had his Greeri Female eat his Greeri male while they were together for breeding!



Oh man I hear these stories and i still don't get it. I have been breeding kingssnakes since the 70's and have been maintaining a large colony of snakes for over 25 years. I never had a problem of adults eating each other. This year I am putting mini males (yearlings and 2 yr olds) with huge florida females. Never a problem. I also started keeping all my 2008 neonates to 3 per cage due to lack of space. Still No problems.

Now maybe these stories are due to some other reason, like the keeper is feeding his snakes mice and handles a king with those mouse scented hands and places it back in the cage and the other snake reacts to it??..HECK I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT THEY ARE DOING???. LOL!. My best guess is they are probably starving their snakes. I find that most people that post on here don't feed their kings karge enough mice. i always post here telling people to feed large items and more frequently and some yahoo posts that they should feed snakes a food item that is a certain girth and give their snakes bottled water so they don't get fat. YET THAT SAME KING ATE ANOTHER THE SAME SIZE AS IT.

I just fed a 18" king a baby chicken yesterday and it didn't choke on it or explode. The snake will be stronger for it and live a longer life. Keeping snake in captivity on a diet is THEE MOST moronic advice i have ever heard.
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