Advice Please!

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Originally Posted by SavannahSnake

So....definitely feed outside the enclosure. I feed my ball in, but we have a system that works. I'm never afraid she will strike me. Looks like I may not want to put as much trust in a king. Correct? The biting thing gives me pause. Just one authors opinions but never worry about my ball biting and not letting go, etc.


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Feed inside the enclosure is my recommendation, make it easy on yourself: none of my snakes (my Calis included up to even my boas and retics) know when it's handle time vs feed time and I have NEVER been mistaken for a food item when I reach in to get them (my bull snake goes nuts when I crack open his tub but even he knows when he's going to eat vs just being curious about what's going on). A Cali bite is nothing to worry about also.

Thank you for that. I just realized I have to quarantine as well. The herp room is my home office. Advice on how to deal with quarantine? I was going to put both enclosures next to each other on the credenza which will fit two 2 20 gal tanks. Can't do that at first can I?


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Turns out to be a lavendar. The disposition is just so amazing I'm going to get her. Never nips, doesn't pee on people :) just figuring out where to house her for the next few months


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x2 on Daybreaker's post. Quarentine is a must if you don't want to risk something coming in which is harmful to your snakes.


Quarentine minimum is seperate rooms for 3 months plus handling your current collection before handling the new guys. Washing after handling new guys.

+1 on the QT, and I only warned about the biting because a few kings will do it. I have one that does but once she realized that I wasn't food she turned me loose as fast as she could. Two have never even threatened to nip even when there's feeder scent in the room.

They are smart little critters though, and are escape artists as well.

Well, I got her. She is on a different floor in quarantine. Now, I have her on paper towels with two hides and water. UTH as well as ceramic on top. She did love to hide under the substrate, but I want to look out for mites. How long should I wait before I can put her back in aspen?


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I give mine a week or so - if you don't see mites by then she likely doesn't have them.

Thank you. This great support is priceless.


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My king is perfectly happy with put a heat lamp and a UTH a water bowl and 2 hides and a tree branch to climb. He likes to climb up the branch unto the the lip around the very top of the cage just under the lid. He burrows alot more since i cleaned his tank and added a nice thick layer of aspen bedding but he does use his hides, his favorite being a human skull hide i picked up a couple weeks ago. it gives me oh so much satisfaction watching him crawling in and out of that hide. As for the biting ive only had that problem when i fed him the first couple time but he chilled out now and is a baby doesn't even musk when i go to pick him up