The numbers
Thermal gradient
Day: a real gradient, 29–32°C warm against 21–27°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 24°C.
Why
Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet stateswarm 29-32 °C (85-90 °F) / cool 21-27 °C (70-80 °F) / night Down to ~24 °C
Humidity
The sheet states40-60% (dry cage; mist for shed)
UVB
The sheet statesBeneficial (diurnal)
Identity
Adult size
The size the sheet states for a grown animal.
Why
Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.
Morphs
7 morphs, with how each one is inherited.
Enclosure and conditions
Enclosure
Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.
Why
The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».
The sheet states120 × 60 × 60 cm (4×2×2 ft)
What your climate adds
This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.
Diet
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. This sheet states a figure for each age, so each age has its row.
Why
The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56. A young animal's row is drawn only where the sheet gives one: working it out by dividing the adult interval would be inventing a ration.
The sheet statesRodents (mice → small rats) · Every 7–14 days
Behaviour and handling
Reproduction
Common health problems
When to see a vet
Good to know
- 'King' because it eats other snakes: including venomous rattlesnakes, to which it's largely immune.
- Comes in striped, banded, and countless designer morphs.
- One of the hardiest, most reliable-feeding beginner snakes.
- 'King' because it eats other snakes — including venomous rattlesnakes, to which it's largely immune.
Common questions
Can it live with another snake?
Never: it will eat other snakes.
Is it a good beginner snake?
Yes: hardy and a reliable eater.
Will it escape?
Yes if there's any gap: lock it down.
What it needs
Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.
- Enclosure 120×60×60
- Heat + thermostat
- Low UVB
- Aspen substrate
- 2 hides
- Water bowl
- F/T mice
Sources
Others in this group
What this sheet states
Every field this product runs on is stated here. That is not a claim that the values are right: it says what the sheet states, not whether it is true. Whether a human has read it is the badge at the top of this page.
UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.