Corn snake Check List - Page 3

Chu'Wuti · 02-24-09, 01:49 PM

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when will this queezy feeling go away?

LOL! Hopefully soon, especially if you're going to hang out with us very often!

I lost my queasy feelings in reaction to a lot of this stuff a looooong time ago. Now I only get queasy when I see a cockroach! Even typing the word makes me shudder! ugh [shudder]

Faequine · 02-25-09, 11:37 AM

i HATE cockroaches. Though there is a certain satisfaction in stomping your heel on them after you see one that makes you feel better. What do mice cost anyway? can you get lots of frozens at one time?

siz · 02-25-09, 12:59 PM

You can order them online in bulk, sometimes you can find local breeders who can sell you bulk frozen.

Chu'Wuti · 02-25-09, 05:42 PM

It's better to buy in bulk, too, as you can buy them less expensively. If you find a local breeder who has very clean conditions and feeds good-quality rodent food to the mice/rats, that will probably be less expensive than buying online.

For the latter, you'll have to pay shipping, which will be expensive as the frozen product has to stay frozen until it gets to you, requiring dry ice and overnight shipping. That runs the cost up about double, depending upon how much you order.

However, if your only other choice is a local pet store, even paying for shipping will be lots less expensive than buying a mouse or rat one to three at a time from a pet store.

JBD · 02-26-09, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Faequine

I am ever so close to getting my candy Cane corn from the breeder from Wrapped up in reptiles. We are just going through payment and shipping options.
I would like to make sure i have everything and I've a few questions.
I have:
10g tank, coated wire lid
aspen shavlings (they have been sitting in storage for a long *** time)
water dish ( from when i had my aussie Water dragon)
Tree ornament to climb on
Cave like hide

my questions are: should i worry about the shavings having been in storage for so long? and also the building sadly has roaches *shudders* and am wondering if they comtaminate things if they carry anything that could infect a snake, and also my Uro Greg.

I have purchased about 70% of my corns from Annette. Hands down some of the best I've seen, and her stock is top shelf. You made the right decision to get from her IMHO. Good luck with the new critter...

Faequine · 02-26-09, 11:40 AM

I first mer her 2 years ago at ERAS fall show, and from that point ive been working to get a snake, come may ill finally she my creature in the fleash at this years springs show^^ I soo cant wait. COME ON TIME GO FASTER!!!lol.

bugger · 02-27-09, 02:28 AM

I have been putting a frozen pink in warm water in a 32 oz deli cup, till it thaws. I then put each of my corns into a different clean 32 oz deli cup and drop in a thawed pinky. I was told by the seller to feed them seperately, in seperate containers, so they don't steal each others food or swallow each other if they start at opposite ends of a pinky.
I was also told to feed them in a different cup/dishs so they don't get any aspen bedding in their mouth and swallow into their guts and get impacted. No problem.
Hadn't heard about problems thawing with warm water, but I'll call my breeder and see what he thinks.

I was told not to put coco in as snake bedding cause it gets fine and gets into the different orafices, especially eyes, and screws them up and causes inflamation and infections.
I do see plenty that use coco bedding but I'll pass. What you use for bedding is your decision. I got a good sized bale of shredded aspen at a reptile show for $15. Good deal. Good deals at the reptile show I went to.
I also like bottom heat for digestion. I keep my piggy bank hide part way over the heater, and the okee likes that one more than the other snakes do.
My snow corn doesn't seem to like going in the hides, but hides under the bedding.
I keep 3 hides in my 20 gallon tank.

Faequine · 02-27-09, 09:42 AM

Ive got a feeding container for it. One of those huge rectangle butter contaienrs thar took us 6 months to empty. Already have the air hole made and everything. I did notice that the feeding tongs i bought were meant to handle bug, but does it really matter?

Chu'Wuti · 03-01-09, 05:42 AM

Not that I know of, though I do know that Aaron prefers hemostats to tongs. I think it will begin to matter when your snake is able to eat bigger prey items, as it will get harder to hold on to them with the tongs; they tend to slide out while you're jiggling the prey for your snake! It can be quite disconcerting for both of you, and once my BP refused to eat after the mouse "attacked" him.

Faequine · 03-02-09, 12:12 PM

The poor dead mouse scared him? hahaha. And hemostats.... arent they a surgical tool? I vagily recall the term from the vet assisting course i took that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.

bugger · 03-03-09, 07:37 PM

I fed last night, and was wanting to see the strike, plus the okee wouldn't come outa his hide, so I wiggled the pinky with the hemo's and he grabbed it, so I started pulling him out of the hide by it and half way out he dropped and hit the table, then the floor, then behind the stove into the corner.
After that he wasn't the least bit in the pinky, but wanted to hit me. I got him in the 32 oz deli cup and he kept striking at me through the cup. I was pissed, and had some pretty mean thoughts at first, survival feeling, which is what he was feeling I'm sure, so I just put the container with the pinkies in the tank and turned off the lights, and later he had half of one of the pinkies down, so I left him till before I went to bed.
He seemed stiff when I dumped him onto a pile of bedding, but he looked at me with a kinda smile and a what's up look. Didn't seem to want to strike at me then, but I wasn't trying to handle him either.
The other snakes went in the cup with hardly and thought about it. They were nice and easy, but the okee, the one I like the look of best, is the difficult one. Aren't all the nice lookers the hard to get along with snakes ....

Pueblo · 03-04-09, 06:38 AM

Hello all
I have seven corns of my own and four milks two peublans plus two nealsons and one lutistic texas rat. just to say those candy canes are awsome looking. I don't have that colour morph. my colection of friends is already pretty big as it is but I love all my snakes and they all have great temperments. I spend two hours a day holding them all making sure there all good. but not on feeding day as soon as i feed them i put them back in there tanks and dont touch them for two days. Once again your corns are awsome looking thanks for showing us your pics. if you want to see some of mine go to peublos buddys and feel free to leave some pics there if you like. thanks all

Faequine · 03-04-09, 09:38 AM

leaving them for 2 day seems to be a general rule? What other handling advise show i know?

Chu'Wuti · 03-04-09, 09:40 AM

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The poor dead mouse scared him? hahaha.

Yep, it was pretty funny! My DH was the one who was trying to feed him, and DH felt pretty disconcerted when the BP started jerking away from the mouse like it was a dangerous predator!

We just left him alone for a few days, then carefully tried again, and he was fine (the BP, that is!).

Boy, bugger, you're sure having fun with that okee, aren't you?!

Oh, and yeah--hemostats are surgical tools, but Aaron swears by them--it's a lot easier to hold onto the prey animal with them! I haven't tried them myself yet, but as my BP gets bigger, I may have to get a pair.

Faequine · 03-05-09, 12:15 PM

i dont think theyll be easy to find?....