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My Corn Snake has developed a noticeable thick to thin tail

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First, thanks to all the contributions to my recent flurry of posts. The more I read and learn, the more interested I become.

One of my two Corn Snakes has developed a noticeable thick to thin tail in the past few weeks. I fed it two pinkies the last three feedings. It was eating once every seven days. The last feeding was at six days. Both corns are on the same diet/schedule.

Could it be that one is a female and one is a male? Is this one just eating too much? They are both about the same size. This one shed four weeks ago and looks like it might shed soon. The colors are turning a grey.

Here is a picture of the tail that has changed in the last four weeks.

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Here is my other Corn with the slender tail transition. My other Corn had a tail very similar to this one four weeks ago

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Thank you for any insight.
 
I would bet you that if she is in shed, she will leave that mess in her skin when she sheds. But that does indeed appear to be a poop waiting to happen. I wouldn't hold her lol


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Yep, I learned the hard way to put a towel over my lap if Avatre's tail looks like that when I take her out, lol
 
i wish i would have read this before i let kyle in my lap this morning. I said "what is that sme...oh god i think kyle just pooped in my lap." to which there was a lot of '"eww grossssss" from the girls while i was begging for wet wipes. pros of kids in diapers i guess
 
AliCat37 said:
I would bet you that if she is in shed, she will leave that mess in her skin when she sheds. But that does indeed appear to be a poop waiting to happen. I wouldn't hold her lol


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1 of my albino pin stripe kings ate, shed and pooped all in one motion lol.
Being albino, I didn't realize he was in blue when I fed him. He started swallowing the fuzzy and as he was downing the mouse he started shedding and then at the end pooped. Now talk about multi-tasking !!!!!
 
daddio207 said:
1 of my albino pin stripe kings ate, shed and pooped all in one motion lol.
Being albino, I didn't realize he was in blue when I fed him. He started swallowing the fuzzy and as he was downing the mouse he started shedding and then at the end pooped. Now talk about multi-tasking !!!!!
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That's awesome!
 
My snakes are do to eat today. They have both eaten the day before a shed so I'll see if it is willing to take the pinkies.

This snake, named Dexter Morgan, has always pooped within 3-4 days of eating. This has taken a little longer than usual.
 
Dexter pooped in the morning. Tail was back to normal, he readily ate Sunday late afternoon and shed late last night. So all Is good.
 
In the future, please don't feed your snake when it's in the shedding cycle, even if close to the end. The number of snakes that regurgitate when they eat while in shed is truly staggering. Even if he hasn't had issues before, they can start happening when the snakes move on to larger food.
 
I'll keep it in mind and try to recognize the shed cycle more readily. His first shed, I saw no signs. This time it looked to be turning grey and a couple days later, shed.

In other posts I've seen, it had been advised to offer the food and if it wasn't accepted, to wait a few days. Both times it readily ate right before a shed without issues. But I obviously don't want issues.
 
It's the ones who accept that regurge later! The blue refusers avoid it :) It's not a hard and fast rule, but it saves a lot of trouble if you have one who does it. In my experience, being fed in or around the blue period is the number one cause of regurge in otherwise healthy snakes with correct temps.
 
Yup - my hognose recently regurged because she was blue. I was just being an idiot and didn't want to waste a mouse (a different snake wanted nothing to do with it) so I gave it to my hog knowing she would take it. But I found it spit back up a few hours later (and I know she ate it because I took a pic of her after she got it down)

She didn't expel any digestive fluids but I followed regurge protocol anyways.
 
Thankfully my amel did not have a regurge but, now I have a question on my normal and feeding. I've been posting a lot and thought I would just add my question here as some have already posted relevant info for me. Last shed these two Corns were within a few days of each other. Now it's been almost a week and I don't see signs of a shed from my normal. It is due to eat this weekend.

Here is a picture today for comparison to the previous one posted last week. Anyone see an obvious sign of an imminent shed? Should I go ahead and feed it or skip this week?

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If the snake is out and about (without you having disturbed it) it's safe to feed; the blue phase is not imminent.

With that color, watch for a darkening of the whole body, a less bright orange, and check the belly checks. They are usually deep black. If they start to look gray or blue or milky or faded- that's blue.
 
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