corn climbers?

[revxus]

I've seen really nice cage setups at local pet shops carrying snakes, mostly for pythons and boas... but I have a corn, and would love to have a cool setup with leaves and branches and cool hides but, don't know if my corn would appreciate that.

Can anyone please help me setup my 20G tank or maybe by showing me their setips I can get an idea... thanx!
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[Neumann]

Greetings,

My family and I are new Corn owners as well. My daughter has had her Corn for only one month. I too am looking for a natural setting and plan on adding to it as we go.

I think the key to a happy snake is the right temps and humidity in the viv. All the rest is a bonus.

At the moment we have one nice hide that has what looks like a piece of drift wood on top of it and a nice green plant on top of the wood. It was purchased at the pet store and is designed for snake and lizard vivs. My daughter's corn spends quite a bit of time on top of this hide. We call it Pride Rock and he fully appreciates it. The only downside to a highly decorated viv is having to clean and disinfect all the pieces and parts, but that's a small price to pay for providing a nice home for a caged pet. . So go for it.


Cheers.
Jason

 

[Alex Dew]

Hey

Well as Neumann said, its hard to clean with lots of sticks, plants, rocks and stuff but it does look nice. As long as your heating is right, you have a water bowl in the cool end, you have a hide in the cool and the hot and there is a rock for them to help them shed their skin it will be fine and you could add some sticks and a nice substrait in and it will look beautiful
Hope this helps.

Thanks

Alex

 

[revxus]

Well, I have been told to only use the aspen chips bedding for substrate, nothing too "fancy" - the other substrates I have seen that look attractive are sand and crushed walnuts, and if I can have my baby corn on either substrate I am wanting to add some driftwood branches for climbing (but will they climb?) along with artificial plants and possibly a green or red infrared bulb for heating. Would this work out?

 

[tina]

I have the wooden half log hides and stapled fake vine stems to them to add color. I also bought a 12" grapevine piece of wood which is pretty bulky and secure. Both corns-since they are only 3 months- seem to enjoy climbing up the vines (they are small enough that the vines can support them). My normal also loves climbing the grapevine and curling up on the top. I have heard that corns can climb trees, so this seems a normal habitat thing. Despite what some folks say I think they do get some stimulus from having things in the cage. I just recently had to empty all the hides/wood out because of woodmites and had to wait til I got some Provent-a-mite. It was amazing when I got to put everything back a week later they just sped around the cage an went straight under the hides to explore as if, boy it's all back.

Tina

 

[blito]

My corn likes to climb.. i provided an old mug tree (secured to the base of the viv) and she used it all the time... i`ve since removed it as it started to come loose but chione doesnt seem to be bothered that it isnt there anymore.. mind you snakes hardly speak great english so it can be difficult to understand just what they like

 

[Neumann]

I have heard that corns can climb trees, so this seems a normal habitat thing.

Tina,

PBS has been showing a weekly series on reptiles and the one on snakes was played a couple weekends ago. In that film they showed a Normal Corn inching his way up the side of tree, and I mean straight up. He was trying to get to some chicks that were in a nest hallowed out in the tree. The mother bird pecked at the tree above the snake to get the sap running which got in between the Corn's scales and irritated him greatly. Consiquently he fell but seemed okay. So yes, Corns Snakes will climb.

Jason

 

[Wavlyn]

Well, I have been told to only use the aspen chips bedding for substrate, nothing too "fancy" - the other substrates I have seen that look attractive are sand and crushed walnuts, and if I can have my baby corn on either substrate I am wanting to add some driftwood branches for climbing (but will they climb?) along with artificial plants and possibly a green or red infrared bulb for heating. Would this work out?

Er, sand is rather bad for snakes, and I haven't heard about crushed walnuts. I myself have a red lamp. I've heard it doesn't really make much of a difference unless you keep it on all the time. That way, it doesn't bother their nocturnal behavior. A few driftwood branches would probably be fine, as long as you clean them very well.

Mine climbs into his little tree every time I annoy him. So far, he's been rather shy, since he's been here...4 days, so that's almost all i've seen of him. At the moment, I have bark as a substrate, but when I go to uni or school gets particularly stressful, i'm going to change to paper towel, just for it's cheapness and easy clean up. Plus, you can feed them in their viv, which is nice. I'm planning on getting some more plants(real, since my mum likes them), and a few branches and rocks. Right now it looks a little bare...I have a cocohut and a Tim Hortons coffee cup as hides, but he seems to like the cocohut better, so i'll be getting him another one.

Yes, they do climb trees in the wild...I've heard they're fairly good at it.