first kingsnake

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Very nice! I love kings!

yeah he was a rescue we have 6 ball pythons and a jungle carpet python

Nice! Love those dark smooth chocolatey colors [emoji4]


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yeah he is very calm

I like when you read the posts straight in order it seems like you are answering questions that aren't there.

Kings are great.

yeah so far he is great

Make sure u handle that king everyday! He may be young but they arent kingsnakes for nothing. They can get a lil wild and those bites are like lil crazy mosquito bites for every tooth. Nasty mouth backteria will have u uncomforable. .
I hand a stunning reverse desert phase albino kingsnake he had an evil look to him and that snake was hard core. When handled often daly he was quite nice but after not having enough time a few days to week in a row he had a big wild attitude develop. The balls can wait handle that king every day and u will be happy

ty for the info westcoast ill handle him everyday just like my big 6 ft jungle carpet

mt wife went in to get her and she startled him i guess cause he was flipping his tail like crazy so i just told her she just startled him.thats all

If my kings get upset at me they rattle their tails, but they've never bitten and are very docile. Now I did have a Mexican black king that was a grump. ..lol.

Some kings can have attitude but the majority are quite docile. The tail flicking is common too and generally the defensiveness stops there. You don't need to handle it everyday. Although we wanna hold them snakes would prefer to be left alone. Over handling can stress out the snake as well. It would be better for the snake to not handle it that often. Most snakes, including kinsnakes, can go long periods without being handle and that won't just make them start biting you once you touch them again. The kingsnakes I personally have dealt with generally got held once a week. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Bites from them were rare, to never happened. Even the snakes I have that can resort back to being nasty if left alone too long stay quite tame with only routinely being handled once a week.

Now I am not saying there is no chance you won't get a kingsnake that will just wanna strike at you any chance it gets. Some can be very bitey. And there are ways to tame them down or just deal with it if they are one of the few that don't change their ways. The one posted just made it seem like all kingsnakes are gonna be a terror. Although some can be the majority are quite docile.

Even if you do get a nasty one, kingsnake bites are actually quite harmless. Most don't grow large enough for their bites to do any real damage. Lots won't even be painful at all for that matter. I would much rather be bit from a kingsnake then musked on any day.

Yeah. My CalKing can rattle his tail like a champ when I go to pick him up but I've only been bitten once (day Fed-Ex brought him and he was starved on top of it). Never been musked or struck defensively. He's still really young and small, but once he's out he's ACTIVE, but completely non-aggressive.