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4.5 years old and 55g???

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thismissbex

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So I adopted a 4.5year old cornsnake off a teenage girl a few days ago. He is tiny! Around 1.5ft long and 55g. She told me he eats one pinkie every two weeks!!!! So obviously he hasn't got the right nutrition to grow. He also has the smallest heat mat I've ever seen and she told me it was a heat lamp but it's clearly just a normal house bulb so his viv was no more than room temp. He was also being kept on small animal wood shavings!! Nightmare. But i can't work out if he is definatly 4 and a half years, even with the bad care could this really stunt his growth this badly???
Anyways, he took 2 pinkies for me no problem and I'm gonna move him onto rat pups cause I was told they are more fatty and better for helping him catch up. Any other advice would be much appreciated!
 
I would just feed him every 5 days, and make the next meal a peach fuzzy, then a small fuzzy, then a medium fuzzy, then a large fuzzy. I would feed two or three meals at each size to make sure he is handling them okay. I would slit the backs of the mice so he can digest them easier.
 
Agreed with Nanci. Also, the small animal wood shavings are fine, most of us use them. As long as they are not cedar or pine (bad for the snake) aspen is the best to use.
 
Oh really? I read somewhere - don't ask me where lol - that when wood shavings get wet there is something in them that becomes toxic? Or is that just regards cedar/pine too?
I've got him on aspen though cause I think it looks better anyways! [emoji4]
 
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