Alex,
One more thing, I think Josh alluded to this earlier: it may be a good idea to pick up a book on Kingsnakes that has all the step-by-step information laid out for easy reference (not that I don't want to answer your questions, I do wish to help) so that you have the information at your fingertips.
I have never even owned a kingsnake (nothing against them, just not my favourite species of snake) and I just dug up two books on kingsnakes from my library (evidently I purchased and read them long ago).
Here is one of the books I would suggest.
Cheers,
R
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