I don't undertsnad your post.

Are you saying one snake killed the other?
Was there a feeding accident?
or you just found the one snake dead in the cage after you intruoduced that there are no markings or other clues to make you tghink the one attached and constricted the other?

Or are you saying it died of just plain old stress after you plaed the female intop th males cage. Then found the female dead the next day with no signs of foul play>?

Whatever the scenario. It could have been avoided by introducing the two prior to winter brumation (after they both go off food) to acclimate or BONG to each other..(*^*&%!. I meant BOND, yet a bong might help them tas well... :;

Mtn Kings live in groups in the wild. A new intruder can trigger several responses which includes stress, canibalism or even just the movement of the one snake triggered a feeding response even though one snake was left behind for dead and not eaten.


Ever threw a live mouse into a snakes cage that did not want to eat/ (the snake not the mouse). Yet the snake still killed the mouse anyway. Could be due to irratablity or annoyance of its intruder. So many things could have caused this..

I have had my share of bad luck that boiled down to me just making mnistakes.Or poor judements based on the ecology of these snakes. Sometimes those lessons can cost a lot depending on what animals you lost. Trying to figure out what took place will assure you you won't make the same mistake again. If you don't grasp what you did did wrong , well, it's sure not the snakes fault! And it will just happen again unless you figure them out. What is important is to understand what made the other murder and leave for dead or caused a stress reaction so violent the snake could not handle it.. Keeeping them apart until breeding season is not a good way to eleviate this.


I belive these snakes should be kept in groups and care given to feeding time. That is it.
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