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Flabby corn snake?

CornSnakeBreeder

CornSnakeBreeder

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My female amel corn snake, Puma has been bred twice in her life. Once in 2009 and once in 2010. I decided not to breed her in 2011 due to her muscle quantity. She has regained all/more than the weight she lost after laying her clutch, although, it is just flabby fatty skin. All my corn snakes are solid, and when you hold them, you can't feel anything but their rock hard muscles. Except for this girl.

I've heard that they love climbing, but I live in Canada and right now its very wintery outside, so I put a climbing branch into her terrarium. She explored it at first, but then went in her hide. I have been checking her everyday, and she is in the same spot all the time, not using her hide. I also tried making her climb the stairs as I heard that allows them to build muscle. I took her to the vet and he said that she was perfectly healthy, just flabby. She is around 500 grams now and hardly has much muscle. I also think she is ovulating because I palpated her and I feel some lumps in her lower half.

Does anyone have any ideas/ food products/ help for me to help her gain muscle instead of me feeding her and her gaining more and more flabby fatty weight?
 
I let mine "swim" in the bath tub.
just put an inch or so of warm water in the tub
and they swim around and exercise.
 
Try spreading out her feedings or regularly skipping meals. She should come out to hunt and get a little exercise. At 500 grams, she wouldn't be hurt at all by a 10-14 day feeding schedule.
 
Swimming or cornsnake treadmill. And feed less frequently. Mine are still gaining at a nice rate at a 14 day interval. (The males and fatties). I think just getting her out for half an hour a day would really help.
 
Spread out the feedings like has been said, exercise and skipping 2011's breeding season are all good ideas :*)
 
If you have indoor stairs, getting them to go up and down (under supervision) is good muscle-toning exercise for the less mobile ones.
 
Thanks for the ideas, everyone! I will start feeding her every 14 days instead of every 7 days. Like I said, I will not be breeding her this year. I will regularly give her baths where I will allow her to swim/exercise, I will give the stair climbing exercise another try with her, and I will make her "hunt" for her food by putting her mouse somewhere and let her find it :)
 
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