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Eye
The Eyeball
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 10/11/2009 : 11:12:49
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The girls (Shadow and Ultra, two beautiful 3 months old MBKs) arrived Friday and went into their new homes, where they have three "proper" hides each, plus some artificial folliage to create aditional hidey places and generally make it more iteresting for them.
Since then, Shadow has been very busy digging right under the substrate (aspen) so much so, that she managed at some point to remove ALL of it(!) from one corner of the warm end and make a mound elsewhere. Warm end temps are usually 28.5-33, cool end at room temp, but I was wondering if she was (a) seeking more heat, (b) want the substrate to be a bit deeper, (c) behaving perfectly normally for a king?
Ultra, on the other hand, likes to rest right outside her cool end or right at the front corner of the warm end, in plain sight and hardly hidden at all, I wonder if this means she's feeling comfortable and pleased about her set up?
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jono2411
Yearling
United Kingdom
655 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2009 : 13:33:27
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nah, they are just showing the varied behaviour of kings, mine do both of these things so don't worry, you are gonna hve a great time watching them play :)
[just wait for feeding time ;)] |
1.0.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake : Baron Samedi
0.0.1 Apricot Pueblan Milksnake : (Hercule) Poirot
0.1.0 Striped Splotched Sinaloan Milksnake : Arminia
0.1.0 Pueblacorn - Cleopatra
0.0.3 Fire-Bellied Toads: Ghengis Khan, Bruce Lee & Chairman Mao
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Eye
The Eyeball
United Kingdom
81 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2009 : 16:58:25
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Thanks Jono. Your mentioning feeding time reminded me my youngest boy's question, the day after the new snakes arrived: "Mummy, when can we get tagged?" ...in the same voice he uses to ask when can he have a doughnut. 
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magneticblue
Kingsnake Forum Admin
United Kingdom
1511 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2009 : 21:19:56
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| Sounds like normal king behaviour to me. Jasmine always makes a mound of aspen in the entrance to her hides |
1.1.0 Arizona mountain king (Sylar and Claire)
0.1.0 Blotched king ( Jasmin)
1.1.0 Guyana red-tail boa (Hercules and Athena)
1.0.1 children (Alfie and BUMP)
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jono2411
Yearling
United Kingdom
655 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2009 : 00:39:07
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| Ha, The Baron does that as well... |
1.0.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake : Baron Samedi
0.0.1 Apricot Pueblan Milksnake : (Hercule) Poirot
0.1.0 Striped Splotched Sinaloan Milksnake : Arminia
0.1.0 Pueblacorn - Cleopatra
0.0.3 Fire-Bellied Toads: Ghengis Khan, Bruce Lee & Chairman Mao
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Carl
Hatchling
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13/11/2009 : 18:43:12
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| Yeah Snoop used to do that as well, I stopped using it though and moved onto kitchen roll, my life has eased so much lol |
1.0.0 Mexi Black (Snoop)
1.0.0 Milk Pueb (Lestat)
0.2.0 Mexi Black (no name) |
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Posted - 14/11/2009 : 16:57:08
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Carl, i would never of switched to kitchen roll if it were my snake, i love watching it digging and as it does it so much i think it must really enjoy it as well. It just means a quick substrate straightening is needed when i change the water, not much work. :)
It is amazing how much kings do love to dig, sometimes mine travels completely 'underground' so i can just see the substrate moving like a scene from tremors! :P |
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The behaviour of kings
