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    Kingsnake with rattles?

    Okay, let me start by saying that i know absolutely nothing about kingsnakes. I love balls! <- i am gonna get it for that.

    anyway, we bought my gf's sister a baby kingsnake at the Tampa show yesterday and i was reading some threads about them on Kingsnake and here. I found a couple of threads where people were talking about baby kingsnakes making a rattling sound but aparently it goes away when they get bigger. What? we looked this little girl up and down and didn't find a rattler. so, i am just wondering which ones have a rattler?

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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    Its not that they have rattles, its that they shake their tail like a rattler.
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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    Quote Originally Posted by Beardedragon View Post
    Its not that they have rattles, its that they shake their tail like a rattler.
    And when they do that in dry grass or leaves or up against the side of your tank, it sounds amazingly like a rattlesnake.

    It's kind of funny if you get one who's really into it.
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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    Quote Originally Posted by Beardedragon View Post
    Its not that they have rattles, its that they shake their tail like a rattler.
    so when the threads said that they "heard" them rattle they meant they looked like they rattled. i'll see if i can locate the thread. but they said "heard."

    i am not worried about anything i am just curious.
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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
    And when they do that in dry grass or leaves or up against the side of your tank, it sounds amazingly like a rattlesnake.

    It's kind of funny if you get one who's really into it.
    oh, that answered my ? while i was typing the sewcond one.



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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ranegyr View Post
    so when the threads said that they "heard" them rattle they meant they looked like they rattled. i'll see if i can locate the thread. but they said "heard."

    i am not worried about anything i am just curious.
    My Albino Cali still vibrates her tail, especially when feeding or when spooked. You are bound to hear it at some stage but it's merely a defence mechanism. All my Colubrids do this and yes it does sound remarkably like a rattler!
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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    Not just kings, my corns do that when startled too.




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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
    And when they do that in dry grass or leaves or up against the side of your tank, it sounds amazingly like a rattlesnake.

    It's kind of funny if you get one who's really into it.
    Yeah my little boy thumbs his tail agaist the glass every once and a while when I get to close and makes the noise. Mean little devil he is though...
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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    My cornsnake does that on occasion too.
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    Re: Kingsnake with rattles?

    I just fed my kingsnake in a deli cup and she was rattling, very cool. They definately try inpersonating venomous snakes.

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