LoneArcher
New member
Hello, another new snake owner here. Kind of an odd story, I wasn't planning on getting a snake...(Okay, how many times have you guys heard that before?)
I apologize in advance because this is kind of a long story. Anyway, last year my daughter decided she wanted a snake so she started researching various breeds and decided she wanted a corn snake. At the end of the school year she had made a considerable amount of cash from her grades and decided to buy a snake. She bought a beautiful Okeetee Corn that has turned out to be an excellent match for her.
After a while, she thought I might like to have a snake too (probably since I was so fascinated by hers) and started showing me different corns on breeder web sites. While I love snakes and really like corn snakes in particular, I decided not to get one. Pretty much the regular excuses, money, time, etc. You know how it is.
So the other day my wifes Mom catches a small snake in her front yard and keeps it to show to my daughter when we come over the next day. Lo and behold it turned out to be a baby corn snake. We were going to release it, really, but it was so cute that I decided to see if it would feed. Sure enough, the little thing took to feeding amazingly well and we had an extra tank sitting around so...we decided to keep it.
I'm no expert, just getting into this really, but scouring several sites and watching lots of videos, I'm pretty certain that our new addition is a Texas Corn Snake, pantherophis guttatus slowinskii. We don't know if its a male or a female yet, but I've named "him" Crowley. Little Crowley has been with us for about a week and a half now and is doing very well. I'm going to try to get some good photos in a few days and I'll post them if I do.
I apologize in advance because this is kind of a long story. Anyway, last year my daughter decided she wanted a snake so she started researching various breeds and decided she wanted a corn snake. At the end of the school year she had made a considerable amount of cash from her grades and decided to buy a snake. She bought a beautiful Okeetee Corn that has turned out to be an excellent match for her.
After a while, she thought I might like to have a snake too (probably since I was so fascinated by hers) and started showing me different corns on breeder web sites. While I love snakes and really like corn snakes in particular, I decided not to get one. Pretty much the regular excuses, money, time, etc. You know how it is.
So the other day my wifes Mom catches a small snake in her front yard and keeps it to show to my daughter when we come over the next day. Lo and behold it turned out to be a baby corn snake. We were going to release it, really, but it was so cute that I decided to see if it would feed. Sure enough, the little thing took to feeding amazingly well and we had an extra tank sitting around so...we decided to keep it.
I'm no expert, just getting into this really, but scouring several sites and watching lots of videos, I'm pretty certain that our new addition is a Texas Corn Snake, pantherophis guttatus slowinskii. We don't know if its a male or a female yet, but I've named "him" Crowley. Little Crowley has been with us for about a week and a half now and is doing very well. I'm going to try to get some good photos in a few days and I'll post them if I do.
Weekends are work, drive, sleep, rinse and repeat for me but I should be able to have something up by Monday.
