MEXICAN BLACK KING SNAKE CARE GUIDE
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2019
- This video shows how I care for Nacho, my MBK. If you have any questions, please drop them in the comments below.
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Active snake, big enclosure, low aggressivity. It's my dream!
Nacho is a total dream. He loves his food so has a great feeding response but has never once bitten me or even acted aggressively. He’s musked me once in fear, when he was very small, but that was my fault!
Ive just purchased the same thermostat, really happy with it . The display is very basic but it does what it does very well.
Thanks for another great video. Re humidity: in the summer I can never get RH that low. I left the heat lamp on full for a couple of days after setting up my kenyan sand boa’s viv, to dry the (already dry) substrate as much as possible, but the humidity in there is still in the fifties. In winter there will be no such problem. He’s a beautiful snake!
Thanks very much John! It can be tricky to get those relative humidity levels where you want them when we’ve got humid weather happening for sure!
@@JensensReptiles where did you get your MBK and how much in the uk?
NACHO! Wow looks like he's gotten quite an upgrade!
We changed things up in his enclosure a little :)
I always use reptisafe for all my snakes for the tap water. I've had them for years. And I've heard from multiple breeders this is fine. On the water note ☮ I also really love your layout it is amazing! I really do want a mbk so bad so I appreciate the layout ideas
Very nice set up :)
Thank you!
That snake is beautiful
Thanks!
That looks amazing!!! Nacho is adorable.
Where do you get your grapevine and branches from? I'm looking to add to my corn snake enclosure :) I live in the UK
Thanks so much! I get most of my decor from Northampton reptile centre or Internet reptile :)
I have a 4ft by 2ft empty enclosure and I REALLY want a mbk but they are incredibly hard to find here in the U.K.
I love snakes so much because they live so long and are so easy.
Beautiful noodle, and we both have a Calcifer tattoo in the same spot!
Haha awesome!
I love my MBK
They’re great snakes
awesome vid
My Nan has a black kind and it’s so old it’s about 30 years old and 7ft
Thank you!!
Hi! Wondering what hygrometer/thermometer you use in your enclosures? Really loving your setups so far :)
Thanks! They’re made by White Python
I got my new MBK noodle today, Im so happy, little noodle lol
Congratulations!
Hello I love your videos
Thanks!
Good luck in the future!!!
Can you make a video on your enclosures? Like where you got them and how you set them up.
I’ve made a few on that :)
I just got my 3 snake a king snake and i have his habitat ready any advice
I have a young MBK that i absolutely adore. I was wondering, since I've gotten varying advice, do you keep your heat on all night? since its a ceramic and emits less light. thanks!
Hi :) I leave mean on overnight, they’re all on thermostats. I have a night time temp drop of a few degrees but I definitely like to keep my animals comfortable and warm throughout the night. My house can get really cold in winter
I was just curious, how do youkeep all those branches stable?
Do you build your own enclosure or you pay for someone to build it? How much it was at the end?
I tried to use captions but I can’t understand what kind of substrate you said that is? It looks nice
It’s Lignocel :)
Lignocel looks like a great substrate. Wish I could find it in the US.
Yeah, it’s a brilliant substrate! Hopefully you can find some!
Hi I a thinking on getting a Mexican black king snake but I don’t know if I should put it in a 60x24x24 or build the tanks up from small tanks
Hey Jensen ! Great video, just wondering what substrate are you using for nacho ??
Hey :) it’s lignocel
How often would you recommend feeding a 1 year old MBK? I have read so much conflicting information online.
He was upgraded to small hoppers a couple weeks ago and I give him 1 per week. He's quite active and climbs around his enclosure frequently seemingly always hungry. I don't want to overfeed him though. Great video and lovely enclosure for Nacho.
They’re greedy snakes, so will always seem hungry. At a year old, I was feeding nacho, an appropriate sized meal for his size, every week. Once his growth started to plateau, I moved his feeds to every two weeks. That was around the two year mark
@@JensensReptiles Thank you that makes perfect sense. He's grown so much in the last few months. I will keep an eye out for when it eventually plateaus.
i am actually thinking of placing a mini pond in my mbk's enclosure, i wonder if he will appreciate the pond?
Hi jensen, Great video. Do you drop your corn snake temps at night? I have just had a corn snake given to me because a friend could not look after it, i did read your care sheets on the your website but there was no mention of night time temps, also the same question for a Brazilian Rainbow Boa, Thanks in advance.
Hello! I do indeed drop my corns temps at nights, I use the same stats for them as for Nacho, so they go down a few degrees too. For Skittles, hers is constant at day and night at the moment but I may look to change that in the future
@@JensensReptiles Brilliant thanks for the advise.
Ive got a 4ft viv ready to and been looking at getting another Hognose ( I already have one in my 3ft viv) but I love the look of the MBK and Ive heard they are not as aggressive as the Cali Kings. Where did you get yours from, Im from Lancs UK and would you recommend the MBK to a relivly new owner of snakes.
Hiya! MBKs can be a little snippy as youngsters (same as all baby snakes) but are usually rather well behaved. They can be quick, but once they trust you, they’re easy to handle not the whole.
I got Nacho from a breeder in Essex. He kindly drove him to my house in London too!
@@JensensReptiles Thanks for the swift reply, no matter what snake ve been researching Im always drawn to a MBK. Ill have a scout round for breeders near me in Blackburn, cheers again.
Great video. I am thinking of getting one of these, or a BCC or a Jungle Carpet Python. Which one would you recommend out of these three? Personally I am leaning towards the jungle carpet python as I like big snakes but would love your input as this will be my first snake :)
For your first snake, I wouldn’t recommend the BCC. Unless of course you’re prepared to be offering a huge setup down the line. These snakes are often cared for poorly, so it’s worth working with something a bit smaller initially to get used to what you’ll need to provide a large snake.
Carpet pythons are great, but can take a little more time to relax when they’re young. Depends how much time you have available to spend handling your snake to help them get to know and trust you.
@@JensensReptiles thanks. I think I'll go for the carpet or MBK. I am thinking about creating an entire room for the snakes so space shouldn't be a problem but I do see your point of starting small 😊
Any ideas on why my 6ft long mbk has started getting big creases on his skin? Any help would be great.hes got plenty of room to stretch out.
It can happen for a couple reasons. Either he’s just curling up really tight when he’s hiding. Check his hides to see if he needs some bigger ones. Or potentially he’s a tad overweight and fat folds are starting to form when he curls up, leaving creases in his scales when he stretches out again.
Obviously I haven’t seen him, so I can’t tell you for sure. But those are the two times I’ve seen that happen :)
Hey! One question, I've heard some people say mbks are active during the night and some other people say they are active during the day. In your video I heard you say yours uses its enclosure at night, does it stay mostly hidden throughout the day then? Thanks in advance!
MBKs are crepuscular. Most active at dawn and dusk. So they’ll tend to sleep in the deep night and throughout the day. Nacho sleeps out in the open sometimes, but mostly, he’ll chill behind is cooler hide in the shady spots
@@JensensReptiles thanks! I really appreciate the info!
What size tank should I get
I’m American, and when you said the cage was around 24 degrees it didn’t register to me you were talking in Celsius. 24 Fahrenheit is below freezing level, i just sat there looking at the screen like “how the hell this snake alive”
yay for the American measuring systems! WooHoo
I’m American I thought the same haha
20 Gallon ReptiHabitat™ Snake Kit. Is this ok for King Snake Mexican?
I’m thinking about getting one of these snakes but I feel it’ll bite me when I attempt to hold it. I’ve watched videos on how to pick them up but I feel like it will act out, any tips?
Snakes will react if they feel threatened. Be calm and gentle and respect your pet and they’ll grow to trust you. You might get bitten once or twice but it doesn’t hurt when the snake is small. A cat scratch is far worse!
Jensen's Reptiles thank you that’s very helpful!
Erune. What I think helps is if you feed them in a separate tub so they know your hands aren’t food when you go to take them out of their enclosure.
Please don’t feed your snakes in a separate tub. It’s stressful and causes more cases of regurgitation than just feeding them in their enclosure. These animals have a phenomenal sense of smell and know the difference between your hands and a prey item.
what size tank would you recommend for a baby mbk? ive been wanting to get one for a while.
The enclosure must be at least as long as the snake, with a good amount of width and climbing height. You can put a baby in their adult enclosure right away (4x2x2’ or bigger) as long as you fill the enclosure with plenty of clutter and coverage. Or you can start with a smaller tank and upgrade.
Hey Jensen, I'm kinda stumped, I'll be going to university at the end of next year to study zoology and/or herpetology, but, my dream job would be to become a full time reptile keeper and breeder, problem is if i go to a university that's far away, i don't see an option to take my reptiles with me, they'd be looked after well by my dad, but I won't be able to take them with me and they're basically all I do in my spare time, so my question to you is do you have any ideas on how I could go to university but also take my reptiles with me?
Love your videos by the way.
Hi Owen! Are you based in the UK? That’ll help me to answer your question a little better. Could you also let me know what Reptiles you keep?
@@JensensReptiles hi, sorry for the slow reply, but yeah I live in the UK, in South Yorkshire, and so far I keep a Brazilian rainbow boa and a corn snake, fairly soon though I'll be getting a more varied collection, so I'm hoping to get an ackie monitor aswell as ball pythons etc etc.
Well now you can do it online huh
@@hannahthefallenangel788 Well that's true i suppose, but only until covid is sorted out
I dont own a snake i would lovr to tryin to convice my mam to let lol but just wondering im right to say that a big tank will stress a baby snake out or no?
No, big enclosures don’t stress snakes out. But open spaces can, so it’s best to fill the enclosure with lots of hiding places etc
What's the guard called and the water bowl? The plain black ones are not very eye pleasing...
The guard is made by White Python and the bowl is pro rep :)
Long time since I last commented So..... I really want a MBK but I can't find any breeders on straight Google searches any ideas on where to look? Hoping to get one next year once my retic moves up and corn snake moves up enclosure size
Join some MBK forums on Facebook, you might find a breeder there!
Or go on fauna
What age do they become juveniles at
I want to get myself with a king snake but I dont know where to get all the heating things any recommendations?
Where are you based? If you’re in the UK, try internet reptile or Northampton reptile centre :)
@@JensensReptiles yh I'm in the UK and thanks for the recommendation 👍
We love reptiles, and would love to keep them in enclosures like this, but we can't find how to clean natural enclosures like this. Please let us know. We would love to make a natural enclosure for our beardie, but also want to make sure we can clean it . The internet makes disinfecting a big deal.
Check out my recent video to show clean up for naturalistic enclosures. As for bioactive, they do the job themselves
My mbk won't stop biting hismself, do you have any knowledge on this?
Mbk are known to bite themselves or your fingers their always hungry, it’s gonna settle down after a while so u don’t have to worry about it :)
How much does it increase your electricity bill with that ceramic heater?
Hard to tell really. I have over 15 ceramics running along with a lot of extra lighting
Where can I get a enclosure this big
This is a standard size enclosure in the UK, they’re sold in pretty much every reptile store :)
Im going to get mine this or next week :D
Just looking to see if all I know is true...
where are you getting your MBK?
@@Lucario9d i actually got her from my local breeder which happened to breed em : )
@@thefallen2538 where do live? (in the most non creepy way)?
@@Lucario9d germany
@@thefallen2538 hey I know the comment was 2 months ago but could you tell me a bit about the breeder? I live in germany and I want to get a mbk but I don’t know where I can find one
what is the substrate you say?? sounds like "looknacelle" ??!?!?!!???
Lignocel :)
@@JensensReptiles ahh thank you :)
28 degrees damn nigga that’s freezing
Uh... i mart be wrong, or just stupid, but i did think and research that the warm side is suppost to be 85 - 90 degrees and the cold one being 75 - 80? For a MBK
The temperatures given in the video are in Celsius, not Fahrenheit. I live in the UK
20 gallon long is plenty for adult
Gallons is a measure of volume, not length. However, “plenty” may be sufficient, there’s no limit on how much space you can offer if you decide to give more.
Celsius is weird 🤣
No no my friend. It’s very simple. Fahrenheit on the other hand, is bonkers 😂
snakes are not natural baskers they like the heat from the bottom
Depends on the species. They like surface heat yes, but they also like ambient heat. The sun heats the earth from above, not below. A lot of snakes also burrow to avoid heat.