I kinda have the chicken farm mentality when raising snakes.. In other words I have been working with hundreds of adults and producing thousands of baby Florida kings for many years. I kinda have seen everything there is to see. So that makes me an expert.

Before that I used to do the TFH or cookie cutter method of a forced cooling and then introducing a male into a females cage (mind you, fed the hell out of them back then also) and there was cannibalistic activity and I lost several..!

What else did I do wrong? Well I kept the snakes at a steady 85 degrees F. That meant the snakes had no choices.. What I encountered back then was males that were sterile, bad clutches (duds) and just poor years of production.. much like I still here about from breeders who cannot understand the ecology of the snakes. So they blame it on weather or whatever else they can think of.


What I do know is I keep the heat on and the room temp cold. This way the snakes can choose temps and, believe it or not, the snakes actually brumate themselves.. they actually know what temps to choose and are able to survive without being controlled by us.
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• Female cal king trying to eat male... - AaronBayer, Tue Mar 18 18:15:17 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Tue Mar 18 19:20:44 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - thomas davis, Tue Mar 18 19:49:29 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - DISCERN, Tue Mar 18 20:45:54 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Tue Mar 18 22:46:49 2014
• continued - Bluerosy, Tue Mar 18 22:47:39 2014
• RE: continued - Bluerosy, Tue Mar 18 23:07:13 2014
• RE: continued - AaronBayer, Wed Mar 19 09:13:18 2014
• RE: continued - Bluerosy, Wed Mar 19 11:45:53 2014
• RE: More about this subject - FR, Sun Mar 23 08:28:54 2014
• RE: continued - FR, Wed Mar 19 19:48:02 2014
• RE: continued - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 20 10:44:34 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - thomas davis, Wed Mar 19 23:09:40 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - JonathanI, Sat Mar 22 17:10:48 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Sat Mar 22 17:32:22 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - FR, Mon Mar 24 18:20:56 2014
• FR - AaronBayer, Tue Mar 25 09:12:52 2014
• thanks for the quick replies so far - AaronBayer, Tue Mar 18 21:17:34 2014
• RE: thanks for the quick replies so far - DISCERN, Tue Mar 18 21:18:55 2014
• RE: thanks for the quick replies so far - markg, Fri Mar 21 14:41:01 2014
• RE: thanks for the quick replies so far - AaronBayer, Fri Mar 21 15:01:15 2014
• Proper bonding - Bluerosy, Fri Mar 21 16:25:21 2014
• RE: Proper bonding - markg, Sun Mar 23 20:30:24 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - mikefedzen, Wed Mar 19 00:22:55 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Wed Mar 19 00:49:21 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - mikefedzen, Thu Mar 20 03:19:10 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 20 10:51:18 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - rtdunham, Mon Apr 21 14:10:51 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - AaronBayer, Wed Mar 19 09:01:06 2014
• RE: Female cal king trying to eat male... - FR, Wed Mar 19 16:27:34 2014
• RE part 2, abnormal - FR, Wed Mar 19 16:38:40 2014
• RE: RE part 3, female behavior - FR, Wed Mar 19 16:50:53 2014
• RE: a side note - FR, Wed Mar 19 17:09:31 2014
• Update - AaronBayer, Thu Mar 20 19:07:20 2014
• RE: Update - Bluerosy, Thu Mar 20 19:35:37 2014
• RE: Update - FR, Sat Mar 22 09:48:42 2014
• RE: Update - Bluerosy, Sat Mar 22 12:00:01 2014