king snake and weird eating...

I needs me a sexy mexy...

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Originally Posted by cassandra

I needs me a sexy mexy...

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Hi Cassandra, Gladys is actually a Black King (L.g. nigra). A lot of people mistake her for a Mexican Black and from above she is identical to a MBK but when you see her underside it gives her away

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../gladys002.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../gladys017.jpg

Mexican black kings ARE lampropeltis getula nigrita. Mine only has one little white dot on her underside, but most do tend to have some white.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Mexican black kings ARE lampropeltis getula nigrita. Mine only has one little white dot on her underside, but most do tend to have some white.

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Yes indeed, Mexican Black Kings are lampropeltis getula nigrita but my snake is lampropelits getula nigra (Black King snake). Heres a small link to a site dedicated to Black Kings

http://www.blackkingsnake.com/

Hm interesting. I didn't know there were subspecies. Learn something new every day! The spellings of the names are so similar, I had no idea.

Symantics...Gladys is bootiful. =)

well i spoke to friggin' soon. she isn't eating at all. i've got her enclosure filled with newspaper... and she still isn't eating.

any advice would be appreciated.

we brought her home nov 25th ... she ate really well dec. 5... didn't for two weeks... ate again on dec 26th like she was starving... hasn't eaten since

Well...just keep trying. Like I said...my gopher didn't eat for months...and he's fine and did eventually start eating regularly. Give it some more time...weekly attempts for a little while...then move to every other week if he continues to refuse to eat. And if he hasn't started eating again within a month or so....try a live pinky?? Or...you could try a live pinky at the next feeding, I guess. I just went for several months before breaking down and trying live. (At that time, I was taught the "evils" of feeding live and was actually scared to do so!)

i'll see if i can find any live pink mice at the petstores. i know they used to get in live... but i don't know if they are still available. ;)

thanks judy. i worry cause she's so young.

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

i'll see if i can find any live pink mice at the petstores. i know they used to get in live... but i don't know if they are still available.

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I have noticed that sometimes young colubrids are too intimated by the movements of live pinkies and fuzzies to even go near them. Young corns and kings that need to take their first meal will take longer to catch on to eating if they are offered live pinkies as apposed to p/k or f/t ones. With p/k and f/t, they are able to smell the entire body of the item without having it bump into them, which makes them slither away.

I would stick with the f/t pinkies. If your cali has been eating f/t pinkies, then we know that f/t isn't a problem and so live wouldn't matter.