In the last week I picked up my first Cali King snake. I already have a Ball python and was looking for something that was a little less picky and had a much more ferocious attitude toward eating, but at the same time still safe to handle. Through reading peoples post on this forum I came to the conclusion that the Cali King was for me and boy you guys wern't wrong about feeding response.
I'm used to my ball python who will only eat while it's dark, when he is still half inside is hide, the prey has to be moveing and dangling from tongs, if he only strikes and coils on the first shot and only if he can drag the prey item back into his hide to eat it. This all assumeing he eats at all
But I fed my Cali king yesterday and the difference is insane, he is only about 2 months old and I got him from PCPC but I went to feed him last night, I hadn't even got the prey item to ground level and he was already going crazy for it. Striking the mouse, the tongs, went after my hand for a sec so I just tossed the mouse inside and he went and found it himself, and then he ate it backwards! But not only that, the little bugger was still hungry afterward (he is only on pinkie mice which I think are a little small I'm going to move him up to a larger prey item) so I thawed another one, and still the same reaction.
I think I'm really going to like this little guy, the contrasts between my Ball and my King are quite interesting. I'll post some pics after the 2 week period of not bugging the little guy so he can adjust is over.
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