How to Care for Kingsnakes/Milksnakes (plus fun facts!)
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2017
- With a couple of my milksnakes I explain the name origin of these beautiful snakes, demonstrate a proper enclosure setup, and more.
Music: www.purple-planet.com & www.bensound.com/royalty-free...
So the brown ones are...
*Chocolate milk snakes*
Cat the Destoryer 👏 BEAUTIFUL
XD You should get an award!
Slow claps in apporval.
Boiiiiiiii yaaaaaaasssss
that means if they are pink or red strawberry milk snakes?
MY MILKSNAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD
Now she sells merch that says that :oo
AND THEYRE LIKE, “BLE LE LE LE LE”
I drew a milksnake on a milkshake and put that as a caption
Lmao 😂
I thought u said Milkshake 😳😳😳
I have to say, your videos have done wonders for helping me deal with my fear of snakes.
I used to have small panic attacks whenever I'd see any kind of snake, venomous or not. But just recently, I was out with my Sunday School class, and one of them found a snake. After taking a look, we identified it as a scarlet king snake. After all my kids ooh'd and ahh'd at it, another teacher then herded it into a bucket and released it in a pasture across from our church.
The surprising thing is that I didn't feel any panic. It was actually a really cute little thing, and that's something I never thought I'd think about a snake.
They're really nice (certain types obv) if you ever go to Tokyo there's an Owl Cafe where you can handle a snow Honduran milk snake or king snake, and it's not slimey at all, kind of smooth yet scaly. They're firm and soft at the same time and really lovely! I was a little nervous at first and I was asking questions to the lady (is it poisonous, what species, does it bite, what does it eat, etc) to clam myself down and relax a bit and it showed signs of being uncomfortable, but soon it calmed down and so did I. It wrapped itself around my arm and kind of snuggled. The lady then told me different ways to handle it, and they were really satisfying!
Same!
I have an anerythristic honduran milksnake named Milkshake :] and the "feeding mode" is so true! He's always such a gentle and sweet boy but the second he's in his feeding tub, he gets SO excited and tries eating the mice sideways instead of head or butt first :P then gets confused why he can't swallow hahaha
+Finnegan Raines Haha! At least snakes are cute, because they're definitely not the brightest animals on Earth :P
That sounds like such a sweet little noodle
Finnegan Raines do he bite or not??
I think you have a derpy noodle baby
This is so funny my mom had a black king snake before I was born
compared to other youtubers she has a low non sharp voice which is good
I have to pet milksnake named. Brudis
also nice they get straight to the point all the other channels seem to go on and on without actually saying anything worth hearing (imo)
She also doesn't yell at me "HEY WHATSUPUA-camTHISISYABOYOMGSNAKEGUY17!!!!!!" I hate that. Everyone needs to settle down. I appreciate she is informative and gets right to the point. This is one of my go-to channels learning about snakes, since my kid desperately wants one and I want to ensure we do it right.
Very true. I'm not even a snake person and I enjoy her videos!
I wouldn’t say she has a low voice, but it is a nice one. More to the point, you can tell that she is almost always smiling and excited. This isn’t boring information to her, which makes us feel it is cheerful information worth listening to. Dollightful is similar in this way. She isn’t the most extravagant doll customizer, but definitely the most cheerful!
When he went into his hide that was gorgeous
I've wanted a milksnake ever since I watched A Series of Unfortunate Events and I saw Uncle Monty's reptile room
Sameeeeee lol
i love you so much
You are as smart as you are beautiful. I really enjoy listening to your advice and knowledge and I have some very healthy snakes because of it! Thanks!!
She is so nice and sympathico! Really knows a lot about snakes and presents it in a great way! Super
I also know a way to make the difference between a milk/king snake (harmless) and a coral snake (venomous)! Look at their color pattern. Then remember the rhyme:
Red touches black; you're okay Jack (-> it's a milk snake)
Red touches yellow; you're a dead fellow (-> it's a coral snake)
Also remember that this rhyme only works in certain areas, as patterns differ amongst coral snake species.
Hey! I'm a visitor from the future...
Emily and Ed, your facility is going to be awesome!
And I'm a viewer from even further into the future! Their facility is in fact amazing! It's definitely on my bucket list of places to visit at some point
So happy to have found your channel! I've been researching snake husbandry for over a year now, and will most likely be getting a king/milk snake. I love the colors of the second one, the golden band is so pretty.
I would love a video from you on Mexican black king snakes or California King snakes. You are the most reliable reptile expert I can find on you tube. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
I love the fact that you wrote "Starring Candy Cane and Nixie the Milksnakes"! They surely are super stars ✨❤️
I actually just bought an anery Honduran milkshake! I’m more of a ball python person but as soon as I saw this little angel I had to have him. Thanks for the amazing videos!
Is that “Creepy Cooter” near the end of the video? 😂 he seems rather interested! My corn snake is the exact same way.
No, Creepy cooter is a blood red corn snake with no pattern. That was a milksnake at the end.
Oh wait...sorry i thought you meant the one she has in her hand. I didnt notice him in a bin behind her😂
Love how informative u are!
0:13 - WHAT A CUTIE PIE
I love your channel so much! Your videos have helped me engage myself in learning about snakes and even buying my own milk snake!
Thank you so much for making these useful videos there amazing and really helpful to everyone including me I thank you for all the tips and tutorials of taking care of these amazing animals
Nice, thank you for all the information; gives me more confidence to start my two baby king snakes.
I just got a milk snake the same color as yours, and once it's in the feeding enclosure, it goes nuts. It got so excited once that it tried to eat itself!😂
Plus, your milksnake is 👌
Fiona Shepley and you trust someone from amino?
Recently got my first snake, she’s a Honduran milk snake and this video helped me out a lot!
I love it when I tell customers at my work the story of how milksnakes get their names (kids think its super hilarious) and I learned it by this video! 😂
So... just came home with stuff for a albino hondurasnakethingy thats booked today aswell.. my better half have been binge-watching your videos and got excited as she always have wanted one.. x)
I miss candy cane!!!
me too :(
I really like snow Honduran milksnakes! I first handled one in an Owl Cafe in Tokyo and I love them!
That was amazing to see it immediately run and slither into the cave MashaAllah completely amazing 😻
I love your videos ❤ and I’ve always wanted to come see you! I’m a snake LOVER! Any snake I see I want to hold it but sometimes I can’t.
amazing! Thank you for sharing this experiece with us
I just got a milksnake and these videos help so much
Nice presentation. Well done.
Shoutout to the Woma in the background! :)
I have a room full of pythons and boas and one of my tattoo clients just dropped off a tri color milk snake. He's pretty cool but I haven't decided if he's permanent yet. No matter what I'll make sure he's well taken care of I'm just more of a constrictor guy than colubrid. This is a good video, good info for sure.
great info, thanks!
I'm thinking of getting a California KingSnake. This helped a lot!
Thanks for making this video.I really want a milk snake.
I just got a kingsnake today from petco. It honestly was a little more pocket friendly than a breeder for me currently but will definitely get one in the future. It’s got scales on its belly that have a rainbow shimmer if the light hits them just right. He is beautiful and loves to be held already
For future reference please don’t buy from petco. They often have unhealthy animals and always get their animals from mills, which are not good things to support.
Nighting Gale I know that they are not good to support, I just couldn’t purchase from a breeder right now because I didn’t have the money to buy from a breeder, plus, i didn’t have an enclosure set up and all that so it seemed easier for me to get everything needed for the snake and to get one there. When this one eventually dies, I will definitely purchase from a breeder because likely I will have enough for a new snake (possibly enough for a cool morph) plus I won’t need to get any other supplies for it besides food and aspen fiber.
i loveee themmmm ❤️✨
awww i have a nelson milk snake too, i love my baby, she is very shy but i love her no matter what
The only channel I trust
it amazing how there different type of snake skin patterns.
As others said, you're videos are excellent. It's all about the animals and the information you provide is better than 90% of the herp videos online.
MashaAllah thank you for all this info I kinda like milk snakes as they are collubrids too but my fave is Kingsnakes
you couldnt be more right about the "feed mode " mine goes crazy haha
You're amazing
I have that exact snake. i love him.
Just brought my baby California Kingsnake home today!!
I though she said Milkshake😂
My Milksnake brings all the boys to the yard?
How do you like the hemp base? Did it end up working well for you?
Had an albino milksnake named oj that i used to take to the repticon show each year and let the kids get pictures with. He was a ham lol.
We have a milk snake in Minnesota? ! Can they be kept and or crossed with southern varietys? Beautiful.
You know I'm a great fan of yours.. when ever i watch a video of yours i fall in love with snakes more and more.. but in India though we legally have permission to rear exotic snakes.. their price and ffogen food availability is only in metropolitan cities far from where i live.. hope that i could ever get a chance to rear a snake.. fingers crossed
And now they're farmers best friend, they take care of the rodent problem in the barn. I really hope people change, and love all reptiles. I really love them! I have a lampropeltus Californiae 3month young aberrant male. He's such a good boy. The most adorable personality ever, very curious and not bitey, or nervous at all, even the tail rattling is gone with handling him every day! My boy sheds fine without humidity box. But it's between 40-55% humidity in my terrarium. I live in the rainy country Belgium.👍😃🐍 Emily do you have a Cali king aswell, or not? They're the best beginner kingsnake together with the MBK.
You and your snakes are very beautiful)
aha good try bud
She's gorgeous!
ft. her wedding ring LOL
Ewwww MAN! Stopppp you perv!
For a first time snake owner what breed would you prefer to start with
Hello! I have an albino nelsons milksnake! I am a new snake owner and I had to help him shed. I didn't see any eye caps anywhere but his eyes look just like they always do. The same as your snakes. Is there a way to tell if his caps came off or are still on? Thank you.
I just got a Sinaloan Milk Snake yesterday!
Oh I love paper towel cardboard tube I use it with my Parrotlet to go inside the holes 🕳 to play tunnel play with it it’s really fun to use that for some small animals who can get inside and run all the way to the other side
I can’t wait to get my Cali king snake
Please consider doing a Hognose care video. Thanks!
What anti parasite treatment do you do what product do you use to spray what with, are you spraying the substrate with the anti parasite solution? Thanks for this helpful info and video
Can you do a video on corn snakes? Also how often should you feed a milk snake?
I have heard a story about snakes going into houses, covering a mothers nose and umm...drinking their milk before... Not sure that it has anything to do with milk snakes but just thought I should share..
Snakes cant drink milk so its 100% a myth
How did you end up liking the hemp bedding?
I want to draw Candycane in a milkshake to call it a milkshnake
I'm getting a puberian milk snake very helpful
I like your videos and I like you too😂😂because most of girls that I been meet are afraid of snakes🐍😂😂😂
Can I use a heat pad you use in tbe other video for the python? I prefer that to tape. Is there a good way to contact you if I have further questions
Do you have links for some of the products you use like the mite spray
Here because I had a dream about them!!!!! They were following me in pairs!
How do you heat the plastic enclosure container? Again what size is ok for a king snake and do you make holes 🕳 with a drill as I have seen some other snake care videos that have holes drilled on the side?! Is that necessary and thanks again.
In the northeast (where I’m from) the milk snakes are very vibrant
Is this the same care as a king snake?
everyone thinks of snakes as vicious predators that bite you as soon as posible but they're cute little noodles that can even be scared of you
I love y’all’s videos. My wife got me in to wanting to own a few snakes and possibly breeding them.
When you come to Louisiana remember : red and black friendly jack. Red and yellow kill a fellow.
Meaning our milk snakes are red yellow and black like our scarlet and coral snakes .
But both Texas and eastern coral snakes are : red yellow black yellow red yellow black ( red touches yellow)
Milk snake is black red black yellow black red black yellow black ….
And scarlet snake copies this pattern of the milk snake but with out the yellow
That rhyme is unreliable. It’s completely inaccurate outside of the US, and even in the US, aberrant individuals exist.
@@nightinggale6470 if you read what I said it’s for Louisiana. Not all the other states .
@@travislee8139 aberrant individuals exist in Louisiana too. It’s best to learn how to ID the snakes in your area, not rely on a rhyme.
Would a setup like this (temps for thermal gradient & having the humidity box) work for a California kingsnake as well?
How did the substrate end up working out? :)
Wondering the same thing
I think the first milk snake you have in the video is native to my state (Texas) I was taught about them years ago when I was in elementary school.
We have an albino Nelson Milksnake. He doesn't ever want to stay in his heat house. He is always cold.
Wait, so with a milk snake could we leave the humidity box in forever? Or should we take it out to prevent scale rot? I think I’m just going to see what happens but I might just leave it in. If that doesn’t work, make it just for sheds. (I’m thinking about getting one and I know it depends on the snake and I’ll watch him/her closely. If you do respond or anyone please any help is welcome.)
Thank you! -Spilled
Do they need a basking light if you put them in a enclosure
Not gonna lie I like their name it's weirdly cute
GreT videos
Do you have any kind of guide for feeding young kingsnakes? I have a California king and I’m not sure if I’m feeding right. A fuzzy mouse seems to be doble the size of the thicker part of the body but pinkies are just the same size of him. Som I’m feeding just 2 pinkies right now.
Do you guys happen to have any California kings at all?
Old vid but really helpful so I wanna say thank you! I just got a beautiful baby albino Nelson milksnake 3 days ago! The pet store I got her from said they think she is a girl so I named her Aspen! (/Mochi as a cute nickname bc I couldn’t decide betweeen names 😅) She’s like super tiny at this point in time but the humidity box thing is genius bc I got her a 20 gal terrarium and it likes to sit more at 20-30% humidity no matter how often I mist it. Also if u see this a question I have is, do they lose their cute bright neon yellow stripes as they get older? Doesn’t make a difference to me but I just noticed the albino you were holding had really faded yellow bands so I’m was just curious if my snake will look similar at all when it matures!
20-30% is a bit low for the humidity, 30-50% is ideal. Is your hygrometer digital or analog?
around the 4:29 mark, is that a woma python in the terrarium? So beautiful!
Yes
Where'd you get that bedding?
@Snake Discovery can we get a update on how the hemp bedding worked?
What kind of tubs do you use for your snakes?
All i have is a 20 gal terrarium. Is that big enough for a corn or milk snake or should i go bigger. My friend is giving me an adult male cornsnake
If or when you do presentations with your king snakes do you ever use the rhyme that tells king snakes apart from coral snakes since they are very similar in look to the untrained explorer. Ex. Red touches black, safe for Jake. Red touches yellow, kills a fellow?
I have a question that I’m hoping someone who has an albino milk snake can help answer, I have noticed at some albino milk snakes are more pink and yellow and red rather than white yellow and red, will this change as they age to white or will any retain that pink color?
So, since they like to dig would sand be a good idea for a base? Or is the base she has easier to clean? She also did not really touch on the hot spot. What is a good temperature for Milk Snakes? Also, do you have to keep humidity up in their take with something like that or could I use a spray bottle. I would appreciate any answers. I am inexperienced and would like to buy a snake having a good idea of what to do before I buy one.
nope sand can be irritating or harmful to a lot of snakes. something soft and not too fine like aspen or coconut bedding is best. for humidity, milk snakes don't need much, either a humidity box in their tank or an occasional nice room temperature bath can make a big difference in easy shedding! it also depends on the snake! mine spends most of his time on the cool end of the tank, so I give him baths instead of making a humidity box that he won't use much. I have tried a spray bottle but I found that it wasn't as efficient bc it took so long and didn't seem to make sheds easier. it's a bit of trial and error, but you can tell by the completeness of their shed if something needs changing. do lots of research before getting a snake! they are very hardy and easy pets when they have their basic needs, but the basics are essential! good luck :] (I'm not an expert at all, but I have a few years experience with having a milk snake)
i like your snake and it look like a candy cane
What did you decide about the hemp substrate?
I wasn't impressed with hemp at all after using aspen? Stinky, especially when soiled.
Where do you get the heat tape for your snakes?
Alex Recar We got it from Reptile Basics (.com)
Do you leave the humidity box 24/7 or only when then are in shed?
Super Shepherd It depends on the individual snake. If they get "addicted" to it and never leave (which can cause scale problems), then I only provide it 24/7 while they're in shed/blue phase until the shed is complete.
However, as long as they're not in it constantly then I leave it in at all times to use at their pleasure.
Do I need a heat lamp? I’ve been researching and almost all said that I need one for a basking spot and to use the heat mat during the night.
No heat lamps for kingsnakes or milk snakes. Use either ceramic heat emitters or heat mats/heat tape. Lamps dry out the cage too much and do not provide the correct heating snakes use. In the wild, the sun heats the ground, and the snake is in the ground (speaking of milk snakes) using the heat in it - in a burrow, under bark, etc.
is it ok to use aspen bedding for a baby cal king snake?
Yes, definitely!
It’s perfect for them since they like low humidity!