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UnaAngelFay

UnaAngelFay

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Hi! My name is Kristine and although I am usually into rodent/small animals (excluding reptiles and amphibians), I have actually enjoy my mother's Corn Snake... This lady my mother knows was trying to sell her corn snake and we said we couldn't afford it.. But she gave it to us!! So now I have "Amigo" and I have no Idea how to care for her or anything! I was hoping someone could tell me how to care for it and set it's aquarium up. Right now she has a ceramic tunnel thing for her to sleep in and a ice cream bucket with a hole in it in her cage (she came with this!).. I worry she hasn't been under a heat lamp for a while and she has VERY little bark (sustrate??) on the bottom/floor of her aquarium... Any information on how to care for her and to set her aquarium up is GREATLY appreciated!!:(
 
Hi first off WELCOME to the Forum!!!

1)Ok let me see... some of the basics... Adult corns can be housed in Sweater Boxes (you can get these at Walmart for about $2) get a good size one...
2)For the Substrate you really dont need alot if you have a hide... but the substrate is good for the poop so that it obsorbes it... if you use Substrate (I would highly recommend that you do) you can use Newspaper(Its cheap but not really that pretty to look at), Aspen (What most of the Herpers here use) Bedabeast (looks alot more professional)

My opionon:
1)I would get a sweater box at Walmart
2)get a dog dish that will allow the snake to go underneath it (one that has openings to get under the dish MUST HAVE ROOM UNDER THE DOG DISH SO SNAKE CAN HIDE UNDER IT)
3)go and buy some ASPEN at your local petstore... Aspen is used the most since it has very little dust and obsorbes the snakes poop.
4)get another hide (pretty much anything that butter container will work cornsnakes like to fit in tight spaces to feel secure)
5)get a Under the Mat heater at your Local petstore (can be kind of expensive) You can aslo put it in a hotter area in your house, corns really dont need light to live they need the heat, the temp should be around 85deg inpart of the cage and around 70deg on the other...

Hope I helped a little... if you have any other questions then feel free to ask, Many people here would love to help you
:)
 
will she be okay without these for a while?

I am sorry, but can she live without a heater under the cage, a dog dish and a sweater box until Tuesday? It is Thanksgiving and most places are closed.. I know the pet stores are.. I have a heater light (from my mother's cornsnake) and bedding (I have rodents)
 
She can do without those things for a few days. That´s no problem.
Just make sure that the heath is ok. And that she can drink somewhere.

Greetings from the Netherlands

:cool:
 
LOL ya she can live a long time without those things... I was just saying that those are usually the standards to what people get... As you find out Snakes can live in almost the worst areas! They dont really need alot of stuff to live... but its best to let them have at least a livable area to live... but yes Tuesday would be fine I dont see a huge rush to get the things... If the cornsnake has lived in that area for that long then it really wouldnt hurt to keep it in their for a little bit longer...
 
i would also like to add,since you keep rodents as pets too,that they do not need to be fed on live rodents,and can and should be fed on defrosted rodents of the right size,


as i was on a rodent site the other day ,and most of the people on there were very much against snake keepers,thinking that we all feed live to the big bad snakes,



there site is if u want to read
www.smallandfurries.co.uk

on there message broad,then mice/rats
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
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I don't feed her live...

Although I don't really think it is cruel to feed them live, I feed mine frozen ones that have been thawed out. I keep rodents, but most are pets, not for the snake. I just got recient feeders for the snakes (My mother's and mine) but they are too big.. With feeders, they are healthy but they are inbred ( I bought them this way, I didn't do it and they were bred for the sole purpose of feeding snakes)... not very good pets.. I need pinkies right now and adults are not good for feeding a hatchling and a snake that refuses to eat. I know that feeding live, the rodent can hurt the snake and I have seen it happen as well as seen that a snake is more aggressive then a snake that was fed dead ones

On another note, I see nothing wrong with feeding snakes mice as that is what they eat naturally, so why is it soo bad with pet snakes?
 
In my opinion, it is bad to feed live mice to pet snakes because they are being fed in an enclosed area. If anything were to go wrong, the snake could not escape. I also think it is cruel on the mouse as it is not giving it a fair chance...again because it has no chance to escape so could and probably would turn aggressive on your snake. I doubt very much that my snake would figure out in time what to do with a live mouse. She wont even eat her f/t if it is jiggled about!
 
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