Snakes for sale

[nyalh48]

2 dumerils male/female approximately 3 years old $100/pair
1 male suriname redtail boa 4-5 years old $150.00
1 male banana king snake approximately 4 years old $30.00

I will negotiate on price for anything.

[cory bradshaw]

can you show me a picture of the banana king snake?

[Heather&dion]

Do you have the dumerils still would love to have them? email me at reptilegods@yahoo.com

[nyalh48]

Here is a pic of the banana kingsnake

[Aimee]

hey, I have a dumb question...king snakes hunt and eat other snakes in the wild, right? what do you feed them in captivity? rodents? do you have to worry about their nutritional needs suffering?

[mzcml]

my king eats rodents just fine...all of my kings have

[cecilia]

hey, I have a dumb question...king snakes hunt and eat other snakes in the wild, right? what do you feed them in captivity? rodents? do you have to worry about their nutritional needs suffering?

Kingsnakes in the wild eat other snakes, but they also eat lizards, frogs, small mammals, bird eggs, etc. In captivity, it is generally believed that they do fine on an all-rodent diet.

[Kuhlinayn]

As stated, yes, many snakes eat other snakes as PART of their diet in the wild. That doesn't mean that it is the only thing they eat. Very few carnivores only eat ONE specific food. Most are opportunistic. If they are slithering near a tree and a small fledgling bird falls out of it's nest you can bet that most will investigate based on smell/taste and if it is within their size range (a kingsnake isn't going to eat a baby condor for example) they will take it.

One of the funniest things to watch is a corn snake (or most any commonly kept colubrid) try to eat a birds egg. A pet shop I used to help out at would routinely get non-fertile eggs from a pair of doves they had. I decided to take one home one time and watched as one of my corns pushed that egg around the tank for the better part of 30 mins before I finally moved it to a corner and held it down gently with a pencil so it wouldn't move around. Mind you, this wasn't a large egg by any means for the snake. The snake was eating adult mice, but the design of the egg (with little to grab and easy slipability) made it particularly problematic.

My Florida Kingsnake, Dottie, actually turned down snakes oddly enough. The local pet shop had a bunch of ribbon snakes they couldn't sell for the better part of a year so they offered them to me. She wanted nothing to do with them from a food standpoint. She would eat pretty much anything else I put in there though. Mice, Rats, Gerbils, Hamsters, Degues, Stillborn Baby Bunnies and she was good with it. The hamsters were almost as funny as the corn and the egg. These were big mean teddy bear males I got from a relative who bred them. I would put them down via the massive trauma method and then put them in with her. They were about at the limit of food size for her but not to the point of being dangerous. She worked on them for a minimum of 45 minutes and as much as double that due to their design. Whereas most rodents they eat are really easy to walk their jaws up, the loose skin of the teddy bear hamster at that size meant the skin would just move forward and then back as she switched to the other side. Eventually I put the other 4 hamsters down and froze them and for some reason it was a bit easier for her to manage.

Todd in Renton