How to Breed Pueblan Milk Snakes

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"If you want to breed your milk snakes, and you've already sexed them and know which one's a male and which one's a female, make sure you have a sexed pair. Some people will hibernate their snakes, or have a slow period of time for them, bring down the temperatures, don't feed them, keep them in a room that's about sixty to sixty-five degrees for a couple of months. Provide a bowl of water for them, because you'll always need water in case they wake up and their thirsty. When you wake them up, slowly increase the temperatures. By doing this you are also going to stimulate their activity and their going to want to mate. So, put them together, keep an eye on them because King Snakes and Milk Snakes can be cannibalistic. If they don't get along right away, one might try to eat the other, so keep a close eye on them. But, generally, when you first introduce them after hibernation, put the male in the female's cage, he'll go directly after the female and they'll copulate. They'll wrap around each other the male with position his tail, his cloacae over the female's cloacae, that will pop a hemipene, and they'll mate."