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How to older corn snakes interact with hatchlings?

Dolemite

Dolemite

Hi! I'm Scooter!
Quick question: I have a 2 year old corn names Scooter, who's about 4 feet long. I was curious if any of you had any experience in keeping older corns with a baby corn. How do they react to one another? Should I keep them apart until the hatchling gets older/bigger? I keep thinking that Scooter, who's very friendly and docile, might actually eat a baby corn if I put them together. He wouldn't do that, would he...??

Anyway, I'm not sure if I want to get another corn, I'm just curious about this just in case I did one day. Thanks in advance.
 
Corns should be kept individually always, but especially with that big a size difference. Cannibalism can happen even with two of the same size. Make one a lot bigger and you are just asking for trouble.
 
Ditto to the above...

And even if they don't ever try to eat each other, you could get the exact opposite result...they ignore each other. Which is just as bad as cannibalism, because then you have a large adult corn slithering and laying on top of a teenie 8-12 gram baby.
 
Co habbing is not a good idea. dido what what said before but if one snake is ill and its life threatening the other could catch it. and if you even got one the same size if you noticed a really runny nasty stool you wouldnt know from which corn it came from and would have to get them both checked out by a vet.
 
reminds me of an advert in local reptile trader

redtail boa with free corn snake. redtail boa is a placid snake who loves to bath, feeds well and sheds well and is tamed, she is 6ft long comes with uv strip bulb, log for her to climb and water bowl. Corn snake with the boa as they have been together for a year and get on really well. The corn snake is 3ft long, she also feeds and sheds really well, all round good snakes
 
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corn snakes don't hang out with each other at all in the wild, they aren't "friends". So Scotter may well see the baby as nothing more than a snack. And even if not, I don't think it's a good idea to co-hab. Snakes choose to live alone when given the choice, so letting them live how they want; in peace and alone is probably the best thing you can do for them.

There are other reasons too, you can do a search if you want more info. There are people here who co-hab and seem to have no problems, and I have no experience with it. Then again, there are plenty of people here who have had something go wrong. Anecdotes do count for something, and it wasn't worth the risk for me.
 
Hmm...so, it sounds like corns are, for the most part, solitary creatures. Better to be safe than sorry, as I'd be horrified if Scooter ate an innocent little baby corn.

Thanks for the advice, guys!
 
Dido on the no co-hab thing as the others have said and here is another reason that has not been mentioned yet. Let's assume Scooter is a boy and the new baby turns out to be a girl(just for this example) and in a little while you have a horney Scooter and an immature juvenille girl who Scooter has his way with and she is lucky if she lives. Why you ask, because if a female corn is bred to young she can become egg bound or the laying of the eggs can take to much out of her and she may not make it past the laying. Definitely get more than one corn, life is better with more corns :bird: just give them all their own homes!!
 
thank you very much for asking and actually listening to the sound advice given ^^^up there^^^

many people start arguments and all that jazz just to justify a bad decision.

Props to you!!!
 
Hey, that's why I come here...for sound advice from veteran corn snake owners. The posters here have given me some very good advice in the past.

Knowing this board is here has been a great comfort as I've raised Scooter from a baby to the strapping young lad he is today. :)
 
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