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strange snake or just a pig?

xreinx

xreinx

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I missed the "blue" stage on my baby bloodred, sometime last week or this last weekend, and fed as usual. she has been active, same as usual, striky when I go to handle her and I found the skin this morning in her tank, shes bright and shiny, the lump is barly visable and shes striking faster then ever, Ive been slow to handle her, due to having just gotten her, and I just want to let her rest and get useto her new home. now though, every time I reach into her tank, she comes at me, almost as if shes demanding food, I feed every 5 days, and fluff her bedding every other day, shes acting like shes starving, when im not feeding her, shes nipping me.
 
The hunting behaviour isn't an indication that she's hungry or needs feeding. In the wild, they'd be hunting most of the time they're not digesting because they don't know when they'll next find something to eat. The behaviour persists in captivity because they don't know that you guarantee their next meal. For a hatchling, one pinky every five days is fine. Ignore those begging puppydog eyes telling you that the snake is on the verge of starving! It really isn't.

Other than that, I can't explain the change in behaviour other than to check your temps. If Corns overheat they can be uncharacteristically nippy. You're looking for a top range of 85-88 degrees on the floor of the warm side.
 
shes on the same feeding time as my adult blizzard, every five days, (6 to 8 if she dosent poo right away) the temp, (under the bedding) is 75 to 80, seeing as shes a baby, and quite small, I got a hermit crab tank and UTH so I dont burn her to death, when she does deside she needs to dig under the bedding Right on top of the Uth.
air temp is 82 on the warm side, 73 on the cool. (airtemp halfway up the tank for both)yea yea I am Addicted to temp strips and gages. call me strange, I want to know the exact temp, not just a guesstament.
 
xreinx said:
shes on the same feeding time as my adult blizzard, every five days, (6 to 8 if she dosent poo right away) the temp, (under the bedding) is 75 to 80, seeing as shes a baby, and quite small, I got a hermit crab tank and UTH so I dont burn her to death, when she does deside she needs to dig under the bedding Right on top of the Uth.
air temp is 82 on the warm side, 73 on the cool. (airtemp halfway up the tank for both)yea yea I am Addicted to temp strips and gages. call me strange, I want to know the exact temp, not just a guesstament.
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Every 5 days is too often for an adult corn, from what I understand. 7-10 days is more likely for an adult, unless they're underwight, & even then, the 5 day schedule would only be until they're up to proper weight.
If I remember right, the poops are 2-3 feedings behind, meaning, when they poop, it's from 2-3 feedings before the last feeding.

Babies & underweight snakes are ok to feed that often (every 5days).

Often, babies go through a "hateling phase", & are defensive & bitey. It usually passes as they get older.
She's not hungry when she does this, she thinks you're trying to eat her, so she's defending herself.

It's funny, coming from such cute little worms.
 
the temp, (under the bedding) is 75 to 80 ... air temp is 82 on the warm side, 73 on the cool. (airtemp halfway up the tank for both)yea yea I am Addicted to temp strips and gages. call me strange, I want to know the exact temp, not just a guesstament.
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If the air temp half way up the tank is 82, then temp under the bedding (much nearer the UTH) must be more than 75-80. Are you sure you have reliable thermometers? The strip and dial types can be 10 or more degrees out either way. My nephew insisted on using a dial one and it didn't even register the fact that the UTH had been accidentally unplugged for days. It didn't move at all.

I always think measuring the temp in mid-air is a bit of a waste of time - the snake isn't up there. With a UTH, the only temp that really matters is the floor of the warm side.
 
shes almost 35 inches, and only 194 G. I was told that was underweight, so I am trying to get her up to weight, though feeds do happen only every 6 to 8 days, shes sometimes slow on pooing.

and are you sure? I know you shouldent jerk your hand back when they come lashing out at you, but its hard even at her size. And she dosent Strike and Flee, she strikes and climbs my fingers. its like Woah! easy girl, ill take you out of the tank! and Then, when we are out of the tank, shes like.. Flee! slippery little sucker nearly jumps from my fingers every two to three minuets.
its hard to read her, she dosent settle down, shes snappish, her tank is kinda cold. (not above 80 in floor temp, or 85 in air temp, even under the light)
and she did something Id have never expected from a baby before. not this feeding but the last feeding before this, (yea yea being stupid) I had the FT pinky in a cup, (rarly touch them) and I fished her out of the tank, to put her in her feeding cup, she attacked me and started trying to eat my thumb, so I tried to grab her with my other hand (hands were full with the small cup and pinky) the cup was tilted and the pinky tumbling around in the bottem of the cup and she dove headfirst into it, hissing and musking the entire time, jerked the pinky of the cup and tried to flee, needless to say, I grabbed the snake and put the cup down, Finally when my juggling stunt was over, she Ate the pinky In my hands! I spent a good 3 minuets holding her still, thinking she was going to drop it and never eat again...

Ive never had a more demanding or more challanging corn.. not even my fisty blizzard was this bad...
 
What a mental picture that was.......I can see it all happening and then you standing frozen so not to make her go on strike........I know you don't think it is funny...but..lol
sry.

I'm a noob..got nothing for you except sympathy......
Hang in there!
 
Do you have a full body pic of your adult corn? From the avatar, it's hard to tell, but it doesn't appear to be underweight at all.

Yes, I have a few babies that try "to eat me" when I reach in, or even when I'm holding them. It's not being hungry, it being defensive.

Are you washing your hands after handling the mouse, before you handle her?

The baby sounds like a typical hatchling/hateling.
 
yea, I wash my hands with soap, dawn to be exact, cause it seems to kill any smells left on my hands. my tongs go into a vat of bleachwater after every feeding, (had issues with a petstore snake that got sick after a year killed 3 of my breeder brought snakes, wont ever missmanage tongs and handwashing again) that and i dont like touching pinkies, adults are fine, but something about dead hairless ikyness just .. ew.. yea..
and well.. shes just a challange.. everything about her.. I handle her only every other and I am calm about it.. but shes.. shes a handfull. at 7 inches, shes a major handful.
 
this is what I have

this is all I have at the moment. I wish I had more. (btw, shes blind in the right eye, no Idea why)
 
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this is all I have at the moment, I wish I had more
 
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