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Normal behavior or not Ready to eat?

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Revenger

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Can someone help me, my love lil lady Tigger has recently shed her skin to reveal her lovely scales but it's been two weeks since her shed and she hasn't eat anything and when I reach into her tank to place her in her feeding box where she eat she moves away quickly or or hides in another place and hasn't moved from her drift wood at all during this week is this normal?

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Yes as far as I know, her tank has under tank heating matt and for a light source a Zoo Med 10.0 UVB Reptisun lightbulb
 
Do you have any thermometers or a heat gun to check the temps

And is your tank in a high traffic area in your house that will sometimes freak out the little ones.

Live feed or frozen


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Just because there is a heat light and heat pad doesn't tell you much unless you actually measure the temps. She could be too hot even. One side of the tank should be about 75 degrees and the other side about 85 degrees. Unless you actually measure it, you're just guessing or assuming.

The way a snake acts has a lot to do with the temperature.
 
Revenger said:
Yes as far as I know, her tank has under tank heating matt and for a light source a Zoo Med 10.0 UVB Reptisun lightbulb
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One issue is that bulb. 10.0 uvb which is meant for desert animals. Since your corn is an amelanistic morph your snake's eye are sensitive to light. A desert bulb is even more harmful to its eyes so I strongly recommend removing it. NO UVB radiation is required for your snake :)

What kind of wood shavings is that?
 
@scrappyyeddie no, the closest store to me that sold them just closed down last week and I do not drive. She eats only frozen feeders.

@karl, she has been switching from her plant and drift wood, but this morning she was under he half wood hide which is over on her cool side of her tank

@daddio to be honest I did not know that, it was recommended to me by a worker at the store that I got it from, she my first so I'm trying to find out what's wrong and what's right when caring for her,
The bedding is Forest Floor bedding by Zoo Med
 
Forest floor bedding is cypress mulch. It's a good bedding to use when you need to hold moisture in the enclosure. It is commonly used with tropical animals. It's ok to use with corn snakes when the humidity is low and your misting to raise it.
So the person recommended a light for desert reptiles and bedding for tropical reptiles and a corn snake is neither ?? LOL.
As I said, remove the light asap. It could be the problem.
Sometimes snakes just don't want to eat even when there is no health and/or environmental issues. That being said if you don't know the ambient temps on the cool and hot sides then it is hard to say what the issue is. Ambient temp refers to the temperature that immediately surrounds something so the temp readings we care about are in the hot and cool hides where the snake mostly resides. It's best to measure those temps with a probed thermometers which will more accurately tell you what the air temp is inside the hides. Temp guns tell you what the temp of an object is. Objects either hold or shed heat at different rates so they won't be accurate telling us what the air temp is. Each probed thermometer should be permanently placed in the tank.
 
Yeah the person who recommended it said he has a Green Tree Python (I think it was) and he said we would recommend for my snake yeah.
Alright, will do I'll remove the bulb ASAP
 
I use thermometers like this I just put the probe on the aspen I use for bedding and I like one for each side

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I do like the colors on your snake
Do you have it on a feeding schedule
I keep mine on a 5 day schedule but sometimes I do skip a day when life gets in the way.



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I'll have to check that one out :D

Thanks, I someday want to breed corn snakes but first I need to learn everything i possibly can to care for them, yeah she usually eats on a Sunday 1 pinkie mouse every Sunday just to make sure I don't over feed or under feed her and I usually leave a 3 day period without handling her so she can poop :)
 
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