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hockeytownfan19

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Recently, one of my snakes (who I think is the female) has gotten giggy twice. I would like to know if anyone can tell me how you know when they get pregnant. I was also wondering if the female is the one to persue or usually the male. Any help would be lovely. Thanks!

Amanda
 
I think that the male is usually the one who persues, but not sure, sry, new to corn snakes, and snakes in general, so I hope that somebody with more experience can help you ;)
 
Amanda, Three questions: Do you have a set-up for snake eggs and then hatchlings? How may snakes in with this possible female? How old are these snakes?
 
There are seven snakes in the tank. They range from about 6 months to three years. She is what I would consider middle age. She slept with another snake her age and one that I know is older. We have no setup for eggs and such but a petstore that I know well said they could give me an incubator if necessary. She doesn't look any different yet. I have not seen her laying on any of the other snakes since the last time but who knows if they are doing it when we are not home. Thanks for the help.
 
hmm, I'm sorry, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I would say that 7 snakes in one viv is WAY TOO MUCH!
 
hockeytownfan19 said:
There are seven snakes in the tank. They range from about 6 months to three years. She is what I would consider middle age. She slept with another snake her age and one that I know is older. We have no setup for eggs and such but a petstore that I know well said they could give me an incubator if necessary. She doesn't look any different yet. I have not seen her laying on any of the other snakes since the last time but who knows if they are doing it when we are not home. Thanks for the help.
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And did the pet store tell you it's OK to keep seven cornsnakes together. Well guess what they were WRONG. Two snakes in one viv is too many. A middle aged snake is around 10 years old, but by your standards that would be 1 1/2. Again WRONG a snake shouldn't breed until 3 years old and 300-400 grams. Let me guess you do't have a scale, so you don't know how much they weigh. Breeding snakes is not an Oh! well bit of giggy fun, it takes time space and good snake keeping.
If you leave your snakes in together you will end with more the one gravid snake and likely as not a stressed gravid female. Please do search on co-habbing, and breeding.
 
susang said:
And did the pet store tell you it's OK to keep seven cornsnakes together. Well guess what they were WRONG. Two snakes in one viv is too many. A middle aged snake is around 10 years old, but by your standards that would be 1 1/2. Again WRONG a snake shouldn't breed until 3 years old and 300-400 grams. Let me guess you do't have a scale, so you don't know how much they weigh. Breeding snakes is not an Oh! well bit of giggy fun, it takes time space and good snake keeping.
If you leave your snakes in together you will end with more the one gravid snake and likely as not a stressed gravid female. Please do search on co-habbing, and breeding.
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All I could add to Susan's excellent reply is that you really need a decent book on keeping corns, Kathy Loves' one that you can get from her cornutopia site will help you rethink how you're keeping your snakes and how you are risking their health.
 
They did not say it was wrong. We started out with one and then two together so the first was not lonely and now here we are with seven. They mostly all lay in a ship together. I don't really want to breed the snakes, I just know that they slept together and by some slim chance she got pregnant I wanted to know what the signs were just in case I would need to do something about it. When we feed....they all go in seperate containers so they wont fight over food and so the smaller ones wont try to eat the wrong size food. Other then that, we have never had a problem with them all together and they have been that way for about a year now. Thanks for the great advice. I did just buy a book but have not read it yet.

Amanda
 
well, (correct me if I'm wrong) but snakes arent realyy social creatures, so they don't need a cagemate. and secondly, having both sexes in one tank is a bigg NO NO in my book, I'm not trying to be mean, cause you didn't know, but I am no expert, but I know most of the basics
 
hockeytownfan19 said:
We started out with one and then two together so the first was not lonely and now here we are with seven. They mostly all lay in a ship together.
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Snakes don't get "lonely". They are solitary animals and only seek out each other to mate. If they are all laying in the same place its not because they love each other. Its because it's the best suitable/most liked hide and they are all gathering for the best spot.

I don't really want to breed the snakes,
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What did you think would happen? Thats like saying "I put the male and female mice together but I didn't want to breed them". They do that on their own and don't need help from humans to know what to do.

Susan is very correct in stating 2 snakes in one viv is too many. How big of a tank do you have these snakes in anyway?

I did just buy a book but have not read it yet.
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I think it would be worth your time to read it. If you still have questions, the people on this site are always willing to give advice. So don't hesitate to ask.

I am not trying to be mean just trying to point out some things that you should have learned about before getting snakes. Fact of the matter is-7 snakes in one viv is way too much.

I can say that separating them to feed is a good thing.
 
hockeytownfan19 said:
They did not say it was wrong. We started out with one and then two together so the first was not lonely and now here we are with seven. They mostly all lay in a ship together. I don't really want to breed the snakes, I just know that they slept together and by some slim chance she got pregnant I wanted to know what the signs were just in case I would need to do something about it. When we feed....they all go in seperate containers so they wont fight over food and so the smaller ones wont try to eat the wrong size food. Other then that, we have never had a problem with them all together and they have been that way for about a year now. Thanks for the great advice. I did just buy a book but have not read it yet.

Amanda
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Amanda there is a reason we don't need istructions to have sex, it's a natural thing. It's natural too young, too small, too old, two legs, no legs without sex well the world would be dead.
There's never a problem until there's a problem, so do yourself a favor take the book back and get rid of the snakes. Unless you can manage to take the advice given here and actually reading the book.
Let me ask one really wild question are they all cornsnakes?
 
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