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[Rogue628]

I'll try feeding her more often. But should I feed her normal rat or the size I fed her this last time since she can take it?

All my king snake experience is from my last king....but when I got him, he was already an adult so once a week feedings were fine.

Honestly, I'm not well versed with kings and use my past experience as well as a care sheet I found online for this one. It's recommended as hatchlings and young juveniles to feed every 5 days. When I got her I did feed every 5 days but she regurged the second feeding. Her husbandry was fine so I thought maybe it was stress of a new environment and perhaps feeding too much too soon. So after I waited a couple of weeks as recommended with regurge, I fed her a slightly larger prey and fed again on the 7th day. She regurged that. Again, I waited 7 days and fed her what I gave her first and waited 7 days and she was fine, so I've left on that schedule. He prey size was about the width she was (fuzzies at the time, I think) and I moved her to hoppers/small adults. Recently I switched her to rats.

She's only bitten him 3 times. Once when we first got her, again about 2 months later, and the time was about 2 weeks ago. Since he never feeds (that's my job and I don't allow anyone else to do it because I love to feed my animals) I know he didn't smell like food. And when she does bite, she latches on, but doesn't even attempt to wrap like she does her real food. He's always careful with her when he does hold her since she's so much smaller than our other animals...he seems to think she's more delicate so I'm not sure why she bites him.

On the other hand, my old king was a male and was known to bite other male humans. He never bit me or any other female who handled him, but give him a minute with a guy and he'd bite. I thought maybe she's doing the same thing so I don't allow any guys to handle her with the exception of the boyfriend.

Her day temps are around 82-85 and her night temps drop to about 75. I don't measure her humidity since not care sheet I've read say they need humidity, nor does she have a warm and cool side, which I'm going by a couple of care sheets.

If there's something I can be doing better, please let me know and I'll fix it.