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corn snake climbing

SHAKSNAKE

SHAKSNAKE

The crappy keeper!
i put some branches vines and stuff in my vivarium, the snake has kind of like a jungle gym type thing on the warm side. now, problem is he's not using it :cry: !!

i set it up over this week so its been there for a couple days yet he just doesn't really climb it.:sobstory:

just startin up some convo! i heard corn snakes are really good climbers. i guess this guys lazy. :laugh:

i'll post a pic in a sec!
 
Mine also doesn't climb that much. But like wstphal said, they are nocturnal so they may be climbing around when we're asleep :D
 
Yeah corns are all different, I'd even wager they are just as unique as humans, some like to move around A LOT and others are content to stay in their hides day after day and only venture out when they start to get hungry lol. My Zafrina is a jungle corn (half king half corn) and she is always on the move, when I noticed that I put in a nice wood decoration for her to climb on and sure enough, she thinks she is an arboreal (tree) snake now :D
 

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my corn is pretty active, he climbs up on the plastic plants. so i figured he'd climb this!

i got some aerial shots so u can get a look at how he might see it from the plastic plant hes always hanging out at

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i hope he just hasn't discovered it yet. i mean, i put him on top of it after i play with him and he slithers off and does his thing but he doesn't go back unless i put him on it. -___-
 
I'm lovin' the set up! He probably uses it when your asleep. I have caught mine in the middle of the night with the light of my cell phone but not ever any other time.
 
Hmmm maybe the vines you put in there stink (to your corn) are they brand new or used from another reptile? either way you might consider cleaning them off if you haven't. just a thought
 
Unfortunately, climbing is an individual preference like burrowing or staying out in the open - some do, some don't. If you have a non-climber then the fanciest jungle gym in the county won't make them climb.

Just be happy that you now have a great-looking tank, the snake can climb if it ever wants to and you won't have to spend extra time scrubbing poop off the fiddly bits!
 
thanks for all the help. my snake does like to snoop around, he does like to climb his plastic plants. but i guess we will have to see if he climbs! :(
 
My snake, Sienna, burrows by day and climbs by night. Maybe your snake does the same. The other night, I found her coiled around and in her vines. I was looking for her all over the cage and she was in the vines all the time.
 
bitsy said:
Unfortunately, climbing is an individual preference like burrowing or staying out in the open - some do, some don't. If you have a non-climber then the fanciest jungle gym in the county won't make them climb.

Just be happy that you now have a great-looking tank, the snake can climb if it ever wants to and you won't have to spend extra time scrubbing poop off the fiddly bits!
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That's a good way of looking at it :) lol
 
he's been in shed for a couple days, he should be shedding any day now! so hopefully he springs into action after all of this lol
 
None of my babies would climb. They would spend all their time hiding and rarely did I catch them out. I would see them with their heads sticking of of their hides when night would fall but they would rarely venture forth. Sometimes I'd be lucky to catch one come out if I turned all the lights off and they thought I wasn't looking.

Sylvara is the only exception. She started climbing by time she was 3 months old. My Sigyn is now around 7 months old and she just now has started using her vines to try and get out of her tank but she doesn't seem to climb on them for joy like Sylvara.

My kings snakes are kind of the same though both of them are over a year old too. One likes to climb and the other tries but isn't very good at it.

So maybe you have a baby and it isn't comfortable climbing yet or maybe you just have one of those snakes that doesn't want to climb and never will.
 
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