My sisters and I were walking in a park, and we split of the path to go into a mowed field to let our dogs off leash. We were walking pretty close to a over grown ditch with a small creek at the bottom when Renee saw a spotted King Snake and picked it up. I guessed it to be a gravid female, and she was brought home and set up in a twenty gal with: paper towels on the ground, a large water bowl, a hide, and a few pieces of wood.

She is 34 inches, and quite scarred too. Her wounds seem healed though at least.

Renee really wants to keep her tell she lays her eggs, then either sale them or release them. I looked it up, and while it doesn't sound to hard to hatch them, I thought I'd ask more experienced people before it's too late!


.1) Have any of you had a SKS? Is it easy (for a beginner?) To raise the babies?

.2) will they really take pinkies from the start like the sites say?

.3) Is there a market for them, or would we just end up releasing them?

.4) Do I need to provide vermiculite for her? (it's what one site says) or will other soil work? (my parents garden, so we got potting soil, mulch ect.)

.5) How many do you think she'll have?









Thank you all!