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Other Food for Corns
- Thread starter revxus
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Taceas
USW = UB313
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I doubt they'll eat a fish, but any type of rodent I've found to be good. Mice, rats, hamsters, gerbils.
Mine get a variety of stuff I breed here at home, which currently includes mice, gerbils, and dwarf hamsters.
Just make sure that whatever you're feeding is pre-killed. Gerbils and hamsters can do quite a bit of damage to a snake if attempting to feed them live. They're able to defend themselves a lot better than mice.
Corns also eat anoles, but due to the fact they're not all that easily obtainable a lot of the time, and it can also hook the corn on them, I wouldn't recommend that route. You also have to worry about reptile-borne parasites that way as well. Just a heads up.
Some people also feed their corns day old chicks. I haven't done that yet, so I'm not all too familiar with the nutritional quality that a chick may have.
Hope that helps. =)
I doubt they'll eat a fish, but any type of rodent I've found to be good. Mice, rats, hamsters, gerbils.
Mine get a variety of stuff I breed here at home, which currently includes mice, gerbils, and dwarf hamsters.
Just make sure that whatever you're feeding is pre-killed. Gerbils and hamsters can do quite a bit of damage to a snake if attempting to feed them live. They're able to defend themselves a lot better than mice.
Corns also eat anoles, but due to the fact they're not all that easily obtainable a lot of the time, and it can also hook the corn on them, I wouldn't recommend that route. You also have to worry about reptile-borne parasites that way as well. Just a heads up.
Some people also feed their corns day old chicks. I haven't done that yet, so I'm not all too familiar with the nutritional quality that a chick may have.
Hope that helps. =)
drizzt_19
What goes here???
Cornsnakes have been known to eat just about anything with fur...This includes but not limmited to hamsters, mice,rats,gerbils,guinea pigs,rabbits...As long as the food itm is not to large...They also can and will eat chickens,quail,ducks, other birds, bird eggs, anoles, salamanders,skinks, worms? and even other cornsnakes...
Nutrition wise these animals will vary depending on size and stage of growth and type...Ex. a fuzzy mouse is more nutritonal then a pink mouse because they have a more solid bone structure, which provides more calcium for the predator...It all boils down to what you feed the prey animal and how healthy that animal is...I have believe rats and birds to be more nutritional then mice and lizards but that's just my preference...
The disadvantage's of certain prey items are the cost and the fact that the snake may become "addicted" to the more expensive animals and refuse the other commonly fed items...Another disadvantage of certain prey is year-round availability...
I would reccomend that you just stick with mice and rats, since they are cheap and easier to come by then say a hamster or a darn anole(unless you live where anoles are abundant)...
I hope that helps
Nutrition wise these animals will vary depending on size and stage of growth and type...Ex. a fuzzy mouse is more nutritonal then a pink mouse because they have a more solid bone structure, which provides more calcium for the predator...It all boils down to what you feed the prey animal and how healthy that animal is...I have believe rats and birds to be more nutritional then mice and lizards but that's just my preference...
The disadvantage's of certain prey items are the cost and the fact that the snake may become "addicted" to the more expensive animals and refuse the other commonly fed items...Another disadvantage of certain prey is year-round availability...
I would reccomend that you just stick with mice and rats, since they are cheap and easier to come by then say a hamster or a darn anole(unless you live where anoles are abundant)...
I hope that helps
pinatamonkey
Ophidiophile
Nutrition tables with various prey:
http://www.rodentpro.com/qpage_articles_03.asp
Lots of numbers to make sense of, but there it is.
I have heard that feeding birds will cause the snake's poo to be runnier and more smelly - which, for me, is important to know
I stick with the standard rodents, mice and rats. Easier and cheaper to get a hold of.
http://www.rodentpro.com/qpage_articles_03.asp
Lots of numbers to make sense of, but there it is.
I have heard that feeding birds will cause the snake's poo to be runnier and more smelly - which, for me, is important to know
I stick with the standard rodents, mice and rats. Easier and cheaper to get a hold of.