Snakes to Bat Cleanup?

[wstphal]

I took a look at my plans for next year. At the moment I have 3 corn snakes. Next year that will go up to 8-10 of them. Every now & then again Humphrey skips eating a mouse. I toss it. With 8-10 corns, I am gonna be throwing away mice semi-regularly. I think I need a snake that would like to eat those mice. Any suggestions on a good choice of a snake that enjoys being handled & will eat any size morsel that is not too big?

 

[starsevol]

Florida king, hands down!!

 

[whippet]

Yep Kingsnake is the way to go!

 

[Nanci]

I have three clean-up Florida Kings. Once the corns are big, too, I'll give a big female an extra mouse every now and then. An isolation purist would not re-gift a mouse, but in a stable collection I'm willing to take the risk of passing a food item between one long-term apparently healthy snake to the clean-up snake. I'm just putting the caution out there.

 

[Chip]

Agreed. Nothing new comes into or out of my adult room (unless it grows up in my house and becomes a breeder), so I'm not concerned with cross contamination from one cage to another. I use black milks and an alligator snapper, but one beefy king should do with a collection of 8-10.

 

[RobbiesCornField]

I've got a Japanese Rat snake that thinks he's a garbage disposal. And he really is! He'll eat anything you put in there, and he loves being handled. They're also called Kunisar Island Rats.

 

[Chip]

I hate I gave up my pair, but the babies just didn't eat.