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Super Corns...?

parlawn

parlawn

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Hi,
First time here and I have been a cornsnake guy for a while. I have a question to any of you experts out there if you don't mind responding.
I have gone to the Reptile show in San Diego and I had bought a 3yr. old adult female King Corn. I brought her home and put her in the cage with my 3yr. old male striped corn. He mated with her that same hour and a little while later she had 14 eggs. I read up on the care of the eggs because this is the first time I have been involved in egg care. Well, I ended up buying a home and moved the eggs there and someone moved them and they were loset in the garage for 2+ months. When I found them they had been subjected to cold temps. and I expected them to not be good anymore. Well I brought them into the house and a month later, yesterday, they hatched! 7 babies hatched out of the 14 eggs.
I would like to know, are these babies called Super Corns now? I'd put pictures up if I knew how... Thanks!
 
Would it have hurt you to do research on breeding corn snakes and keeping them before you acquired them?

I'm sorry I'm being so harsh, but are you serious?

The snakes you hatched are now hybrids.. or Jungle corns.
 
Huh, I guess some people call a "supercorn" a snake with 75% corn, 25% king, but honestly "jungle corn" is the common name for any snake with both corn and king in it's ancestry. So I would call your babies junglecorns.

A lot of people have issues with hybrids but I kind of like the look of them; however, I think it's important not to keep breeding hybrids back to one species or another; ie, continually breeding a jungle corn to "pure" corns for several generations. This dilutes the characteristic hybrid markings and eventually someone will buy/sell them as a "pure" corn when they are not...
 
That is some interesting incubation info. Could you give some more exact times of how long (and at what temps) they were incubated before and after they were lost? And what is the lowest temp you think they got to while lost? I would like to know the total time elapsed between laying and hatching, and any other hatching info you have about them. Do the 7 babies look healthy?

Thanks!
 
Hi there,
The incubation info for these king corn babies were that after I got home from work I looked in the cage, as always, and I saw a trail of eggs. There was one in the water dish, and the rest were laid from the dish to her hideaway. That's where she laid the rest in a ball of eggs.
I picked them up and I put them in a plastic enclosure with a vented lid for 2 weeks. I had them in moist vermiculite about 3/4 the way in. I bought a digital thermometer and kept them under a 50 wat red heatlamp. The now, incubater was looking very humid inside and the temp. was 85-89 degrees and I thought that it looked as it was described in the book and on the web pages I read.
The eggs were laid on September 8th and we moved on Sept. 22. I looked around for the eggs, but forgot about them due to the move. I live in Azusa now and the temps. at night were getting down around mid 60's. I was moving some stuff around in the garage when I found them in behind a large box of Thanksgiving stuff. I brought them in, and I put them in a cubbyhole type place where the temp was about 70ish. By this time I felt that the eggs were gonners, but I also remember reading that in some cases eggs took as much as 120 days to hatch. So I just kept an eye on them every 4-5 days after that.
They hatched after 123 days on December 11th and the babies are very lively and healthy. All of their eyes are clear and I'm just waiting for the first shed before I feed them.
 
Here I complained about my fisrt clutch taking 80 some days this year...*LOL*

Hey Welcome to the site, your in good hands in So Cal... There are a lot of us that breed in So Cal, and your bound to find some great deals..

Are you going to the reptile show on Jan 3 and 4th in Pomona? There will be a few of us there looking to do breakfast before the show and you would be welcome to join us..

Regards.. Tim of T and J
 
That is very interesting. It sounds like they never got above the low 70s except for the first two weeks or so! And then they were really cooking at almost 90! Those should be some tough babies if they made it through all of that!
 
I accidentally let a clutch dry out once, but a few eggs still hatched... four months later!

After you've got your pics on your computer and sized down below 146.5KB, go to post an entry. Below the "reply to thread" box there's an "additional options" box. Hit the "manage attachments" button. In the "upload file from you computer section", hit "browse" and select your file from your computer. Then hit the "upload" button. If there's a problem with the file size it should tell you at the top. Otherwise it will appear in a new box below saying "current attachments". Now you can close the window (your attachment will be listed right above the "manage attachments" button now) and type your post, the photo should appear below when you submit it.
 
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