Thanks all for the replies - and concerns!
Clearly I Romney’d out pretty bad; no snake-abuse happening here!
What I should have explained is that in many hours of googling “what is the smallest pet snake”, “smallest cornsnake”, “smallest kingsnake”, etc, et al, I found many posts on many boards referring to snakes getting big, fast, due to over-feeding. And of corns getting to 4-feet or even more in some cases.
The inverse of the above then; is to not overfeed your snake.
I got my snake on Aug 26th, age unknown – 2, 3 weeks old? After the first week of acclimation, I have been feeding her a pinkie a week ever since with no probs.
She is now 17” long and about as thick as a standard Sharpie marker, but still with the out-of-proportion baby-head and bug-eyes. I haven’t seen any shed yet, and if she even has shed – it could be buried in the aspen she tunnels thru.
A friend – the only/singular/one adult I personally know who is into snakes – will be in town in a week and said he’d look her over, he said if she’s still too small to safely eat a fuzzy without fear of possible re-gurge, maybe it’s time to move on to 2 pinkies a week.
Regardless of the above, he reminded me that he told me to go with a Hognose or a BP as they will be shorter than a corn. I didn’t listen ‘cause these corns are so beautiful. Whatever.
In my universe, folks consider dogs and cats as pets, while a snake is a terror.
Soooooo, I have to keep a “low profile snake” as there is nowhere in my house to place my snake’s aquarium for its health and well-being without it being obvious. Unfortunately it has to be out of sight, out of mind until enough time has passed that the fears were obviously unfounded.
No Vietnamese Blue Beauty in an upright tank for me anytime soon… :uhoh:
Clearly I Romney’d out pretty bad; no snake-abuse happening here!
What I should have explained is that in many hours of googling “what is the smallest pet snake”, “smallest cornsnake”, “smallest kingsnake”, etc, et al, I found many posts on many boards referring to snakes getting big, fast, due to over-feeding. And of corns getting to 4-feet or even more in some cases.
The inverse of the above then; is to not overfeed your snake.
I got my snake on Aug 26th, age unknown – 2, 3 weeks old? After the first week of acclimation, I have been feeding her a pinkie a week ever since with no probs.
She is now 17” long and about as thick as a standard Sharpie marker, but still with the out-of-proportion baby-head and bug-eyes. I haven’t seen any shed yet, and if she even has shed – it could be buried in the aspen she tunnels thru.
A friend – the only/singular/one adult I personally know who is into snakes – will be in town in a week and said he’d look her over, he said if she’s still too small to safely eat a fuzzy without fear of possible re-gurge, maybe it’s time to move on to 2 pinkies a week.
Regardless of the above, he reminded me that he told me to go with a Hognose or a BP as they will be shorter than a corn. I didn’t listen ‘cause these corns are so beautiful. Whatever.
In my universe, folks consider dogs and cats as pets, while a snake is a terror.
Soooooo, I have to keep a “low profile snake” as there is nowhere in my house to place my snake’s aquarium for its health and well-being without it being obvious. Unfortunately it has to be out of sight, out of mind until enough time has passed that the fears were obviously unfounded.
No Vietnamese Blue Beauty in an upright tank for me anytime soon… :uhoh:
Regardless of length, they are very girthy snakes and easily need as large an enclosure as an adult corn snake. It's always important to remember that length alone can be very misleading!
