Ophiophagus prey question

Hi guys,

A friend of mine keeps a 170 cm long female Malayan king. He has her bougth as captive bred and grew it from worm size to 170 cm. Still feeding it snakes as many snakekeepers in Europe expierienced that Baby Kings that are fed mice often die and espcially around the 2 meter point.
Anyone an explenaition for this?

The head question is that this Queens eats great every snakes but refushes to eat Bloodpythons. Does anyone know a reason for this?

Regards

Richard

Our Kings never touched any kind of Naja or any Pit-Viper.
i also do not believe that Ophiophagus, used to eat mice and rats show a higher mortality rate than others. i have been confronted with many questions about their feeding and their husbandry, all i found was, most of the folks having problems with them was because they simply kept them too "dry" and they dont gave them enough fluids.

Ophiophagus are "heavy drinkers".

i got no clue about why they refuse Blood pythons other than some scares ill got from their teeth's. Maybe the kings knows that too???

Mario Lutz wrote:: Our Kings never touched any kind of Naja or any Pit-Viper.
i also do not believe that Ophiophagus, used to eat mice and rats show a higher mortality rate than others. i have been confronted with many questions about their feeding and their husbandry, all i found was, most of the folks having problems with them was because they simply kept them too "dry" and they dont gave them enough fluids.

Ophiophagus are "heavy drinkers".

i got no clue about why they refuse Blood pythons other than some scares ill got from their teeth's. Maybe the kings knows that too???

Hello Mario,

Kings are quit intelligent so its possible that they can keep different species of snake apart.

And yes I also notice that people often keep there kings to dry. I prefer ponds in their enclosure as they love to lay in the water for hours.

With Kind Regards,

Richard

My king was captive bred and has been feeding happily on frozen-thawed rodents for some time now. I had him when he was just 2-3 months old, he was introduced to corn snakes, and would not take anything else. Admittedly, he’s still young and only around 3.5ft, but seems as happy as ever.

H never becomes dehydrated and just has a large water bowel in his enclosure – I only spray him when he sheds.

Fingers crossed, he will continue to do well.

Cheers,

Dave

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