Care Sheet for King SnakesAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.33 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 05/29/2006 |
Main Category: | Snakes |
Sub Category: | King Snakes |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Joeking |
Years Experience: | N/A |
Species: | California King Snake |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | King Snakes |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Probe |
Mostly Active During: | N/A |
Substrate and Water Needs: | Pet Carpet
Water bowl that’s big enough for the snake to fit in (but not to big to drown him in). Change the water often
I have a spray bottle I use to spray the tank with while Joe is shedding |
Lighting and UVB: | Florescent bulb used 10 hours a day that’s changed every 6 months (the effectiveness in these bulbs wear off). Black light heat lamp left on all the time with 2 bulbs and some natural light from the window (always the best light) |
Temperatures and Humidity: | Somewhere over 85-95 on the warm side and 70-80 on the cool side. Humidity between 45-50 |
Heating and Equipment: | Over the tank heat lamp and a under the tank heating pad left on 24/7 and a florescent bulb during the day. These are all on one side of the tank |
Caging Provided: | Glass Aquarium but it’s cheaper to invest in some plastic containers. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | While they’re babies they should be fed one pinky every 5-7 days moving them up to a couple pinkies then to fuzzies and adult mice. A rule to go buy is feed them something that’s the width and a half of the body while they are growing |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | While feeding them pinkies because there isn’t much bone development I would suggest dipping them into a reptile vitamin supplement every couple feedings. |
Maintenance: | Make sure you have 2 hides for them One on the cool side and one on the warm side. I suggest one of them being a humid hide that they can sit in while they’re shedding |
Some Words on this Species: | They seem a bit jumpy as hatchlings but calm down when handled |
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