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1st one of my own!

jetmerritt

jetmerritt

Wife Convincer
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Well, I had a couple snakes in my home as a kid, one corn snake I think and then a 6 foot rainbow boa. They were mom's as I was a young kid, but it got me intrigued.I think she traded off the corn, then after a while the boa died.

Now owning my own snake, a 2.5 year old corn, I don't want the same fate to happen to her. Who knows if she was sexed correctly. I affectionately call her Ginger.

I am really frustrated with the variety of conflicting information on the net with any pet ownership, especially reptiles. So I am hoping to make some friends here and keep my Ginger happy.

Somehow I managed to convince my wife who was deathly terrified of snakes to let me get one. She even handles Ginger a bit. Thanks to my cousin Charles for introducing his corn to us and for helping me change my wife's mind on snakes.

One question I have is how much should I feed her? She is 3 feet long and appears to be of ideal weight. It sounded like the PO fed her 4 fuzzies every 10 days. All at once. I had some fuzzies from him and fed her, she snapped them back real quick. I got some hoppers and will try those next. I'm thinking maybe 2 a week?Any advice it's appreciated.


Thanks,
Jason
 
Wow! What a cool snake you've got there. Ginger seems very healthy looking.

That's pretty cool that you got your wife to start handling her, next she'll be hooked and wanting to buy more. ;)

As for feeding her, what the original owner was feeding her wasn't too bad but I would go to adult mice. Adult Mice generally have more calcium and a few other minerals that an adult snake needs. Usually two smallish adult mice every one and a half to two weeks or 1 large, depending upon what you can get or what she will eat would work best. If you feed too often, they can become overweight but from my experience, every snake has a different metabolism and some like to eat more or less often. Don't forget to make them F/T! (frozen/thawed)
 
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Congratulations on your new pet! I am a wife that is currently in the process of overcoming a life-long fear of snakes, so I can definitely sympathize with your other half! Unlike your situation, I am the one that is getting the snake! My husband doesn't seem to mind either way. When it comes to family pets, he knows to just sit back and let me do my business. ;)
 
I hit enter before I was done!

Any way, pet stores are generally terrible places for information on any pets. I do not frequent pet stores, but I avoid speaking to anyone when I do need to visit!

I find that species-specific forums are the absolute best place for information. Wonderful communities based around the love for a species breeds a wealth of great knowledge and experience!

I'm eager to learn along with you!
 
Hello and welcome to the addiction....this is a great place full of wonderful people and advice. Very nice corn you have there, as mentioned above an adult mouse every 7-10 days should be fine. We do tend to keep a weight log on our snakes just to make sure that they are not getting overweight. Glad to hear that your wife is no longer afraid of snakes, however, as mentioned above, they can become addicting :)
 
Congratulations on your new family member. Nice looking corn and a big welcome to the site. Its the best site i have found and everyone is really helpful and friendly :)
 
It would be nice to know how much she weighed, in grams. I would feed her, if she is over 200 grams, a small adult mouse, in the 20-22 gram range, every 10-14 days. When she's 300 grams or larger, then I'd feed a 22-26 gram adult mouse every 14 days.
 
I'll try to weigh her today.I have a kitchen scale that should be pretty accurate and I think I can figure out some way to keep her on there.


By the way, thank you for all the welcomes!


J.
 
Healthy looking amelanistic, and I'll echo whats been said about upping her prey size. An easy way to keep her on the scale is to place her in a covered shoebox that you've tared on your scale, or just weigh the 'box first and add it to the total...

This IS the place to learn. There are other forums I like almost as well, but none gets the traffic and responses like CS does. Welcome too :)
 
Since you have hoppers, I'd feed those off at 2 per feeding, every 10 days, then switch to one small adult mouse. But watch her weight- you want to see her gaining about 5 grams per feeding. You don't want her to balloon up quickly and become fat. When you change to every 14 days, then go to a medium ~25 gram adult mouse.
 
Not to hijack the thread, but my wife and mother in law (who lives with us) both had significant snake phobias. My little corn came as a "rescue" (kid at my school talked parents into it, then decided they couldn't bear feeding it), and went home over our spring break, where she has now become very popular. My wife actually asked this morning if I had to take her back to school... :grin01:

One other suggestion for resources is to contact the local herpetological society - often you can find others with similar interests, and they can be really useful for advice.
 
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