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A little 'corny'..

Ferry_vO

Ferry_vO

Retired SOH Administrator
I posted about my first corn snake a while ago, and it is doing really well. Got a bigger enclosure (20x20x40 inch or 50x50x100 centimeters) with a single light bulb and a heat mat underneath for those cold nights. It is growing really well, both in length and diameter on a diet of two baby mice or rats a week.

Here's a very recent photo:

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And it will get a little companion in the near future!
From the same collegue that I got my first snake from I can get a second corn snake. He got two for free from the local pet shop who couldn't sell them because of some small pattern errors. Because these are still very young the new one will have to live seperately from my first snake because he/she might think the little one is food..

The one above is a wild colour corn snake, the second one is an 'anery striped' variant corn snake; see if you can spot the difference!:

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Hard to believe it's the same species, isn't it?
 
Not native here; these Corn snakes originally come from southern/central USA.

There are three native species of snakes here (One poisonous) but it is not legal to keep those in your house.
 
my little brother used to keep back snakes. he used to "powerfeed" them, to make them grow faster. you could prolly do that with your little one. i don't remember how he did it, but it had something to do with when they were fed as well as how much. there was a cycle to it. all i know is, it worked. his snakes got big really fast.
 
You gonna upload the textures for those snakes? :icon_lol:
I like the orange and yellow guy. The striped guy looks like one of those "tactical" camo schemes on USN aircraft.
 
Ferry

Your Corn is looking good! And I can't quite get over people not buying a couple snakes because of "pattern errors"....now that is some seriously hard core rivet counting when you expect a perfect pattern on an animal.

There are a lot of patterns and colors of Corn Snakes. Here's the one I would like to have: Anerythristic Hurricane Motley Corn Snake

http://www.moreptiles.com/AHM.htm

Here's a gallery of patterns and colors from a breeder's site (and this is not all of the colors and patters of Corn Snakes):

http://www.moreptiles.com/cornsnake gallery.htm

My wife wants a Candy Cane pattern Corn...she is all about Christmas decorations.

OBIO
 
That Hurricane motley looks great Obio, though I think the pewter variant looks even better! The Okeetee colours are pretty too, but for now I'll keep to these two (Although I said a few months ago I would only have one..)


:)
 
I've heard that snakes are like tattoos. Once you have one, it won't be long before you get another, then another, and then another. A friend of mine started out with a single Corn Snake about 10 years ago...and now he has close to 30 snakes. Ranging from 2 feet to 12 feet (and still growing) he has pretty much the entire size range covered. He used to have a cat....it disappeared shortly after his biggest python figured out how to get out of its enclosure. He won't confirm the rumors that the cat took an unplanned trip through the snake's digestive system...but he has a much stronger enclosure for that snake and no plans to get another cat.

OBIO
 
Well, the collegue I got both snakes from has both tattoos and snakes. Right now he has eight snakes (Four Corns, one Mexican king snake (Lampropeltis Mexicana, a beautiful silver/orange snake) and three Chinese water snakes), three bearded dragons, a Yemen Chameleon, a bunch of smaller gekkos and insects. Oh, and four cats, two chickens, two dogs, two kids and a wife!
Don't know exactly how many tattoos he's got though.
 
4 kinds of snakes I don't like.
big ones
little ones
live ones
dead ones
guess that takes care of all of them:icon_lol:
 
Reddog said:
4 kinds of snakes I don't like.
big ones
little ones
live ones
dead ones
guess that takes care of all of them:icon_lol:
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You sound like a good friend of ours. She doesn't even like to see pictures of snakes never mind the real thing!

It's a good job we accidentally forgot to tell her this guy (plus a few of his buddies) shared the same field she spent a weekend camping in when she came down to visit us!

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She'd never speak to us again if she knew the truth! :icon_lol:

As well as the green one above I have also seen black/yellow ones and brown ones on the property.
 
That's a garter snake, isn't it?

I picked up my latest addition last night. For the coming months he (Or she, I don't know) will be in a smaller tank until it's a bit longer so my other Corn doesn't mistake it for food! I keep the small tank on top of the big one so the lamp in the big tank will warm the small one as well.

You can see both here:

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Some photos of the little guy, only eight weeks old and 10 inches long:

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Cute, isn't it?

:)
 
OBIO said:
I've heard that snakes are like tattoos. Once you have one, it won't be long before you get another, then another, and then another.
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Tatts????
Only have the one (it's very small) and wasn't the smartest thing I've done.
:173go1:
 
Ferry_vO said:
That's a garter snke, isn't it?
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Yes it is and totally wild. He happened to be warming himself on a pile of decomposing leaf litter in the fire pit on our property when my wife grabbed that shot. He just lay there while we walked around him taking photos. They are non-poisonous and normally mind their own business.

I was surprised by how fast they can move a couple of years ago when a black/yellow one (we have three different colours on our property) about 2ft (600mm) long was trying to get under the storm door on the back of our house. My daughter's boyfriend of the time tried to catch it and as soon as he touched it the thing took off like a bolt of lightning. I have never seen a snake move as quickly as that one did, it was a truly amazing sight when you are used to seeing them moving slowly around a glass cage.
 
Wow Ferry,

Those tanks are very cool...

You must have spend a lot of fortune on your pets... :applause:
 
Chacha said:
You must have spend a lot of fortune on your pets...
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Not really; both snakes I got for free from a collegue. The orange one came from his ex brother-in-law that bought it and decided to get rid of it after only a few months, and the striped my collegue got for free (Actually he got a pair) at the petshop because there's apparently a small pattern error that makes it worthless. Since he had eight snakes (Seven corns and one Mexican king snake) he offered me these.

The small tank I can lend from him until Stripe is big enough, the large tank I bought used. New it would have cost about $250, but I paid about $100 for it. The cave, waterdish, wood chips and branch add another $75 or so. Food is quite cheap though, about $1 each snake each week, and a bit of electricity for the light and heat mat underneath (60 watt and 12 watt).

A cat or dog is much more expensive to maintain. :)
 
Are these snakes very hard to maintain as to making sure they are feed right, temperature in the tank on a certain degrees.

Did you name them yet? And how do you feed them, and what food do they eat? aside from mice :isadizzy:
 
Ferry,...you mentioned you feed a couple of baby mice per week to your larger corn snake. What do you feed you newer, smaller corn snake for food? Crickets or something in that size range? (No doubt about it,...he's a cute as a bug's ear...)
 
Chacha said:
Are these snakes very hard to maintain as to making sure they are feed right, temperature in the tank on a certain degrees.
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Corn snakes are quite easy to maintain, they do not require high temperatures or humidity like boas and pythons do. A day temp of 24-26 degrees celcius and a night temp of 18-20 will do fine. In the wild these snakes are spread throughout most parts of the southern USA, so they do not need a tropical climate. If you create a warmer and a cooler area inside the tank the snake can move around to find the ideal temperature; they need to do that to regulate their body temperature.
I use a light in the top of the tank (25-60 watt, depending on the seasons) and a heat mat under the tank. Two timers are switched so that the light is on during the day and the mat during the night.


Chacha said:
Did you name them yet? And how do you feed them, and what food do they eat? aside from mice
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No names, as all snakes do not have ears so they will not listen anyway. ;)
The small one will get one baby mouse a week, the larger one one baby rat a week. An adult will eat a full grown mouse once a week. I have a bunch of those in the freezer which I warm up in a plastic bag in a bowl of hot water for about thirty minutes. Then I grab the food with a long pair of tweezers and lure the snake with it. Usually it will grab the 'prey' quite quickly and even though it is already dead they will still strangle it before eating.
However I noticed that my large snake swallowed a wood chip during his last feeding so from the next one I will put them in a seperate box to feed them.
 
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