I got this speckled king snake from a pet store and they said he was a good snake from a well known and reliable breeder. Which i think is very false. Every-time i try to hold him he musks all over me & strikes a bunch. He won’t let me feed him i have to leave the food in his enclosure for him to eat. What do y’all think?
Hi all. As the title says I’m a first time noodle owner. Here’s my current set up, I plan to upgrade once she gets bigger. I would like some critics on my current setup. Ways to improve it? And any help in IDing
Also any tips and advice is greatly appreciated
this is morticia with a fuzzy should i be going up a size, she’s also been super active more than usual the past 2 days so idk if that’s a hunger thing or not
I just wanted to show him. I love him so much!
My guy is always hanging out under his water dish around shed time, love him so much
Just brought this boy home today. Already starting to lose his color. I can't wait for him to be jet black and have some good size on him!
Took me 8 days to carve and Drylok the rock background. Let me know what you guys think or if you have any questions!
This is Lenny, my Desert Kingsnake. He weighs 42 grams as of today, but I'm not sure about his age. The writing on the little box I took him home in says 6*3, which I can only interpret to mean he was born in June. Is there anything else these numbers could refer to? That's my first question.
I know he's at least 8 months old since I've had him since August of 2025, but I've seen kings online that are much much heavier at 6 months, which makes me wonder what's up with him. I know his species is among the smaller kings, but isn't this a bit much? He was eating single pinkies every 5-6 days for the first four months I had him, then I moved to fuzzies as soon as I thought he could fit them. It took him about 45 minutes to get the fuzzy in his mouth, which was a sign to me that it was good-sized prey. Since then I've been feeding him fuzzies every 7 days. Since each fuzzy is 4.5g, which is now roughly 1/10th of his weight, I'm going to move up a size by next feeding. I probably should have done so earlier, but he has always looked rather round. He used to shed monthly, now it's every month and a half. Is this a normal progression to people with kings? That's my second question. Thanks.
There's something about kingsnakes, I've always loved them. I can't believe I get to keep this little guy!! Melvin's incredibly sweet and inquisitive. He's an axanthic whiteside Florida king which has been my favorite morph for years and having him as my first and maybe only snake is a dream!
This is a male 2020-born Nelson's Milk Snake. I'm so lucky to have him this year as it's very hard now in my country to find some of his kind.
Hi, this evening I pulled my trash can out to throw the contents away, and the can is located right next to my snake's enclosure table. I accidentally pulled the entire lamp setup off of his tank and caused it to crash on the floor. This lamp setup includes a heating dual-bulb heat lamp which doesnt turn on after the crash (even though it turned on last time after it fell previously but just one bulb, now its not working at all) and the ceramic heat emitter I have for supporting the air temp. It fell on the ground, with the lamp, and I want to give a few important details that might help decide if this is worth replacing it or not; as when it fell on the floor, adrenaline kicked in and I grabbed it immediately as I have carpet flooring and dont want to start a fire. I accidentally grabbed it by the bulb, searing my thumb on the bulb and making a sizzling noise.
My main question is, what should I look for that points towards bulb damage? I let it cool down entirely before inspecting it, and didnt see any damage other than a very minor dent in the metal dome, separate from the bulb. When I turned it on and let it go from cold > hot, it got this weird burning smell but it was so slight I couldn't really "track" the smell, it kinda just occasionally hit me every here and there, but once I got close to the bulb to sniff it, I couldn't smell it really.
It's late, and I worry that I could wake up to a fire, but don't want to unplug unneccesarily if I can help it, as it's really cold where I live and don't want my snake to be cold overnight for nothing.
Hi , I am a new snake owner who was given my uncles 4 year old variable kingsnake due to him having to get rid of some of his reptiles / inverts for a private reason I will not disclose. I’ve had the snake for around 6 months now and am loving keeping him but there’s one issue that keeps arising, his ubv lights bulbs keep blowing whenever I get a new one usually after a day or two. I decided to get a whole new ubv housing and bulb to see if that fixed the issue but it keeps blowing . The light also flickers a lot when on for a few hours and the light gets quite hot . I think the issue is the light overheating due to my house being at a much warmer ambient temperature compared to his house . Has anyone had this issue before and does anyone know a fix for it?
I have my florida kingsnake in a 40 gal bioactive setup. She is quite small, which makes finding her for feeding difficult. I haven't been able to find her by digging and she doesn't take the mice when I leave them out for her. How do I feed her? I haven't been able to find her for over a week despite trying daily. I know she hasn't gotten out since I made sure the tank was 100% noodle proof after the last one got out, so I stuffed all the cord holes with foam and made sure the climbing parts don't reach up that high. She needs to eat and I am worried, so how do I get her to come out?
I was just visiting some friends this weekend and telling them about my snakes. One of the things I was telling them about was the community of other Mexican Black Kingsnake owners, and how friendly everyone is. As well as how much we all just love our little babies. I think it’s so wholesome any time I’ve posted my boy Onyx, other Redditers add pictures of their MBKs. I love our all black snakes🥰