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Originally Posted by kustom
I have a baby speckled king snake. It is about 2 weeks old. I have put small crickets in there and he doesn't seem interested in them. Don't want him to starve.
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Did a pet store happen to tell you to use crickets? I'm not up on kings but I've never heard of one eating crickets. There are insect eating snakes but I really doubt kings fall into the catagory.
Try using day old pink mice , you may have to scent them with frogs or lizards but it'll eat the mouse over the crickets anyday. The typical diet of a king is frogs , lizards , mice and other snakes.
Did you buy this snake without researching its needs or did you happen to catch one and thought it'd be cool to see if you can keep it? If you bought it without research then STOP DOING THAT !!!! If you caught it then let it go.