Kings eating other snakes

[Mike41793]

I'm sure an adult king of quite a few different species would be able to handle a hatchling bp no problem. The king we have now is just a baby but once its to adult size it will get fed any unhealthy babies and healthy babies that I can't find a good home for. Last season my buddy got het albinos, het hypos, and spider het albinos to feed to his monitor. They were all healthy. The rats I feed to my snakes and the roaches I feed to my spiders are all fed healthy and cared for well but also feeders. Everything has to eat.

[Black Swamp]

I was just wondering about this myself. I'm not breeding ball pythons yet, but soon I will be. One of the ladies I'm getting is a fire spider that I am assured has no wobble. No wobble in the lines, either. Everywhere else I read says that all spiders have some degree of wobble. I want to extract the fire from the fire spider, but I'll get spiders while I'm working on that. What do I do if they have wobble? I have no intention of selling unhealthy snakes. What if I get kinks, failure to thrive or stillborns? What if I'm drowning in normals that won't sell, I can't find someone to buy them wholesale and I've run out of room to house them and feeders to feed them? I think it's responsible to have a contingency plan, especially since king snakes eat more than just other snakes.

I raise meat rabbits, pigs, chickens, rats and mice, and I have contingencies in place for them, so why not for my ball pythons? Plus, it makes it easy to justify getting another snake

[John1982]

I'm getting is a fire spider that I am assured has no wobble. No wobble in the lines, either. Everywhere else I read says that all spiders have some degree of wobble. I want to extract the fire from the fire spider, but I'll get spiders while I'm working on that. What do I do if they have wobble? I have no intention of selling unhealthy snakes.

Just because the person selling you the snake hasn't recognized the wobble in their spiders, doesn't mean it isn't there. It's simply something that comes with the territory when working with that particular morph. A wobble in itself is not a good reason for culling - except in extreme circumstances - as folks willing to buy spiders should already be on board with a bit of quirkiness.

[Hannahshissyfix]

I was just wondering about this myself. I'm not breeding ball pythons yet, but soon I will be. One of the ladies I'm getting is a fire spider that I am assured has no wobble. No wobble in the lines, either. Everywhere else I read says that all spiders have some degree of wobble. I want to extract the fire from the fire spider, but I'll get spiders while I'm working on that. What do I do if they have wobble? I have no intention of selling unhealthy snakes. What if I get kinks, failure to thrive or stillborns? What if I'm drowning in normals that won't sell, I can't find someone to buy them wholesale and I've run out of room to house them and feeders to feed them? I think it's responsible to have a contingency plan, especially since king snakes eat more than just other snakes.

I raise meat rabbits, pigs, chickens, rats and mice, and I have contingencies in place for them, so why not for my ball pythons? Plus, it makes it easy to justify getting another snake

I would not trust buying from someone that claims a spider has no wobble along with the rest of its lines. They're either lying for a sale or don't know what the subtle wobble looks like.