....may not be many here but I am one and only recently started keeping a few. We had many when I was a kid and I had a few in college, Western Hognose and Redtailed Boas.
During Covid I found a Speckled King, about 12" long on the road at night and decided to keep her if she would eat. She did eat and I ended up going to a reptile show, my first and brought home a normal Ball Python, and an Okeetee Corn and a California King. The Python was cool and ate like a pig and the Cali King finicky and never calmed down so I traded the Cali for a Prairie King, sold the Python and traded two Western Ribbon snakes I caught yesterday for a Longnose. So my intent was to reduce the number of snakes to feed so I went from 4, to 6 to 4 in one day.
Anyway, I like King's and will get another Cali but not until I get a Mexican Black.
I have fed my Speckled King fresh road kill snakes and a few live like juvenile rat snakes and she don't waste time.
This video is pretty damn cool, not my snake but watch how the Cali nails the Rattlesnake right on the head.
I don’t that much about Cali speckled king snakes, but from the one in the video, I gather that the straight inline position it took after grabbing the rattler was for Ease of consumption? Is that common? Or maybe it was Just because it was in a box...?
Cool video RDW. I had a lot of snakes when I was younger as well. The baddest one was an Indigo snake. That thing would eat anything you dropped in his cage. I was deer hunting in the redwoods last year and we came across a rubber boa. Picked him up and checked him out and released him. Found a large California king last week on the road some ran over. Brought it home and skinned it out. Probably 5’ long and fat. Good luck with your new snakes.
I don’t that much about Cali speckled king snakes, but from the one in the video, I gather that the straight inline position it took after grabbing the rattler was for Ease of consumption? Is that common? Or maybe it was Just because it was in a box...?
The king was wedging himself between the ends of the container
Locked himself in position to control the rattler
if a man speaks, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
....may not be many here but I am one and only recently started keeping a few. We had many when I was a kid and I had a few in college, Western Hognose and Redtailed Boas.
During Covid I found a Speckled King, about 12" long on the road at night and decided to keep her if she would eat. She did eat and I ended up going to a reptile show, my first and brought home a normal Ball Python, and an Okeetee Corn and a California King. The Python was cool and ate like a pig and the Cali King finicky and never calmed down so I traded the Cali for a Prairie King, sold the Python and traded two Western Ribbon snakes I caught yesterday for a Longnose. So my intent was to reduce the number of snakes to feed so I went from 4, to 6 to 4 in one day.
Anyway, I like King's and will get another Cali but not until I get a Mexican Black.
I have fed my Speckled King fresh road kill snakes and a few live like juvenile rat snakes and she don't waste time.
This video is pretty damn cool, not my snake but watch how the Cali nails the Rattlesnake right on the head.
That was a beautiful rattler. Nice distinct pattern. Better in his pets belly than in someone's yard. It sure knew it was in trouble from the way it darted! Lol That King was dead on accurate too.
Those hognoses are very unique. I probably should have gotten one at some point. Is it eating mice yet?
