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#1623610
Grogansilver
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 Question for peter54 or somebody else with experience.
Hello wanted to ask your advise on something, i noticed you have a lot of experience with snakes for many years what do you think about housing pairs of milk snakes together (male and females)? so far Ive been pretty fortunate not to have had none of my snakes eat each other, but what are the chances of this possibly happening?.
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02/14/08 03:46pm
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#1624556
Alligater
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Message To: Grogansilver In reference to Message Id: 1623610
Question for peter54 or somebody else with experience.
I think as long as they are the same size your all right and kept fed,but milks and kings are cannibals,once they are mature who knows.My females are more than a foot longer than my male ,also twice the diameter,I know she will eat him once they have mated for extra nutrition or because they are in too close of quarters.They say don’t,but you might get away with it for awhile,maybe longer,but one day.Their diet consist of birds,rodents,eggs and other reptiles (snakes)good luck if you try it.. 
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02/15/08 06:44am
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#1624568
Grogansilver
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Message To: Alligater In reference to Message Id: 1624556
Question for peter54 or somebody else with experience.
Thanks again Alligater, Hey Alligater Ive been meaning to ask you something about those Mexican milk snakes. how do you know the difference between a Mexican and regular pueblan, as they call them sock heads? cause now I’m interested i did not know they start out colored and turn black that’s wild.
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02/15/08 07:12am
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#1625005
Misce-FL
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Message To: Grogansilver In reference to Message Id: 1623610
Question for peter54 or somebody else with experience.
I don’t recommend keeping them together for more than the cannibal reason. If you have more than 1 snake in an enclosure it makes it hard to track who is pooping, shedding or regurgitating. Any ailment that one gets the other is likely to catch. I think it makes better sense to keep them separate. This is a VERY heavily debated topic on these forums and it’s left up to the individual to come to his/her own conclusions and do what they decide is best.
My $.02 
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02/15/08 04:08pm
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#1625392
Alligater
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Message To: Misce-FL In reference to Message Id: 1625005
Question for peter54 or somebody else with experience.
I have Black Milk snake.They are the 3rd largest milks in the world and they are the only snake to change color from juvinale to adulthood.They say in about 5 to 6 months they start to darken and keep darking til they get black or indigo blue.Mexican black king are born black and get 3 to 4 ft and black milks get 5 to 6.
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02/15/08 09:08pm
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#1626858
Peter54
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Message To: Grogansilver In reference to Message Id: 1624568
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The Mexican milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum annulata) is a different subspecies to the milksnake species, not the same as the Pueblan milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli).
Only one subspecies of all 25 do turn black as it gets older and that is the Black milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum gaigeae). Some of the others darken or at least get more dull in color as they get older, but they do not change color as the Black milksnake does.
There are a lot of different color morphs within the most popular subspecies and the Pueblan milksnake comes in about half a dozen different color/pattern morphs, "sockheads" being one. The Honduran milksnake also comes in many different color morphs as do the Sinaloan and the Nelsons milksnakes too.
Only one of the 7 or 8 milksnake subspecies found in Mexico are actually called "Mexican" milksnake (L. t. annulata).
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02/17/08 06:10am
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