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very nervous to take the plunge...

Tavia said:
Shows are usually a really good place for those with only 1-5 or so snakes to stock up on frozen feeder mice for way better prices than most pet stores offer, particularly the big box stores, your mom n pop store might have better prices. So you might want to bring a cooler with just in case.
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By this weekend i will most likely have my first baby corn snake, im super excited ! I will be going to the show and plan to buy some frozen mice, can someone make a recomendation on how many feeders i should buy and at what size to last me for the next few months? i dont want to buy too many pinkies if it will only be eating them for a month or two, not or maybe they eat them for a full year, not really sure yet its all new, so if you were me how many and what type of feeders would buy to last a few months? thanks !
 
I pretty much followed the Munson plan, which had me feeding pinkies until mine were 30g, so probably a year (estimation). Pick up a 20-25 pack; it should last several, maybe six months, but not really, because you will have three or four more snakes by then, so they'll actually last you about 2-3 months. And if you think I'm kidding....
 
Joba said:
I pretty much followed the Munson plan, which had me feeding pinkies until mine were 30g, so probably a year (estimation). Pick up a 20-25 pack; it should last several, maybe six months, but not really, because you will have three or four more snakes by then, so they'll actually last you about 2-3 months. And if you think I'm kidding....
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haha, i know, i can see that will probably happen. it seems NO one has only one snake. haha. especially if you need to let your snake rest for a few weeks for any reason, you still want to interact with a snake , so you will need a 2nd or 3rd at least ! haha thanks for the info, Pinkies it is !
 
Funkehouse I ended up getting my second corn for the exact reason there ;) I feed them at opposite times of the week so theres always a cutie to handle!

Making the vivs pretty is just so damn fun too.
 
I looked for you, bill said you were hurt or something? Hope everything is okay! Picked up my first corn snake, I will post some pictures soon! The guy I bought it from was awesome, a cool biker at the show he gave me a free bottle of Bud Light to drink also while I was walking around the show, that's what sealed the deal for me lol. Kidding of course, I thought the snake because I liked it obviously the beer was just an added bonus. there actually was not that many corn snakes there, if you were in the market for either a ball python or a gecko you were in luck! They should have called it a gecko convention, there was tons of them! I had a good time but it was a pretty small show they said, a couple of the vendors said they were really disappointed with the turnout, I'm sure the weather had something to do with it, I would really love to go to the LA show in January, but unfortunately I can't make it this year.
 
Yes, the last show I went to here in Costa Mesa was all Balls and Geckos too. I was hugely disappointed. I was entertaining the thought to go to the LA show in Jan but I don't want to drive all that way to look at a bunch if lizards....no offense to anyone, they are very cute :)
 
funkehouse said:
I looked for you, bill said you were hurt or something? Hope everything is okay!
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Yeah, my knee popped and I couldn't stand on it Friday. While I was rearranging the snake room I tripped on a pile of boxes and other stuff and I heard it pop. I just had surgery on that knee a few months ago, I tore the meniscus and I think I may have to do it again. :sobstory:

Sorry I missed you!
 
Shirl said:
Yes, the last show I went to here in Costa Mesa was all Balls and Geckos too. I was hugely disappointed. I was entertaining the thought to go to the LA show in Jan but I don't want to drive all that way to look at a bunch if lizards....no offense to anyone, they are very cute :)
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Pomona is amazing. They have plenty of everything. We make the trip from Phoenix every year. This year we finally got smart and booked a room right on the grounds, so we don't have to do it all in one day, including ten hours of driving back and forth.
 
Here is my fiery little girl !

Well I finally got a snake, but had some temp changes to the living quarters. within about a month it will be in its full time home, a 20 long, with UTH, ASPEN bedding, and a few hides, and im still considering a light. For now i had to change my plans temporarily. I listened to the dreaded store clerk instead of trusting my instincts. I had planned to use either Aspen or paper towels, and was leaning towards aspen. but i go to the store and the clerk gives me the whole "well i SUPPOSE you could go with aspen, but what is really better for them is this eco earth blah blah blah" speech. I wish i hadnt listened. i hate that stuff and will never buy it again. its incredibly dirty feeling, every time i did anything while setting it up my hand was brown with that crap. Im not a fan of it. not to mention the whole process of watering it, then drying it back out, no thanks. not for me. I dont know why i let him talk me into it, this would never have happened to me in the Salt Water fish world, i always go in knowing what i want and need before im at the store, and for some reason I caved like the noob that I am. I got rid of that stuff after like 2 days, i just cant hang with it.

I will be changing that tank over to aspen after i get back from a short Christmas vacation. for the interm he is in a temporary Plastic tub, with an UTH, paper towels, 2 hides, and a waterbowl. I bought 5 frozen pinky mice that day but i think she is too big for them, she actually ate one the first day no problem, right off my tongs, she ate it SO fast and you could barely see a lump, she pooped 2 days later and it was hardly any poop. then yesterday i fed it 2 pinky mice and it ate them so quick. after the first strike its swallows them within like 10 seconds, i barely had time to take a picture. She i not quite a baby though, he said she was born in late July so has had quite a few meals. Im thinking i might need to go to the next size, what do you all think? Once im back i will put up some picks of the 20long with Aspen to see what you all think. and give me some advice on lighting, Yay or Nay? and if so what what type, wattage and for how many hours? I see a lot of people say you dont need them, but those same people seem to have a light?! so confused. Anways, here are the pics !

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Oh yeah and i forgot to tell you the best part. I got him at the Repticon show in Phoenix a week ago, and there was not that many corn snakes, i was going back and forth between 2 different vendors, and one of them won obviously. He also threw in an ice cold Bud light, and he said if i was really interested, he had a half a joint we could go outside and smoke?!! i took the beer, but passed on grass. He was cool though, an old biker that was cool as hell and answered lots of questions for me. and the snake was a good price I think also, he said its a female fire red, i dont know enough about these morphs to know yet, anyone have any ideas if he was right?
 
whoops, I wrote "fire" for some reason, but thats not what i had written down, he said he thought it was most likely a Blood Red , but i dont know, its hard to tell. you tell me what you think he is, maybe he is just an okeetee, either way im happy with him ! best $35 i have spent in a long time !
 
Definitely a diffused and looking quite red, so I think Bloodred is probably a reasonable label. Diffusion is the name of the gene, which removes the belly checks and causes the side markings to smear and though head markings like that are also caused by the Masque gene, Masque tends to go hand in hand with Diffusion and the "best" Bloodreds/Diffused tend to have very Masque heads.
Bloodred is a line bred color form of the diffused gene.
 
funkehouse said:
Oh yeah and i forgot to tell you the best part. I got him at the Repticon show in Phoenix a week ago, and there was not that many corn snakes, i was going back and forth between 2 different vendors, and one of them won obviously. He also threw in an ice cold Bud light, and he said if i was really interested, he had a half a joint we could go outside and smoke?!! i took the beer, but passed on grass. He was cool though, an old biker that was cool as hell and answered lots of questions for me. and the snake was a good price I think also, he said its a female fire red, i dont know enough about these morphs to know yet, anyone have any ideas if he was right?
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LOL!!!

Gorgeous bloodred!!
 
thanks for the feedback, glad u like her ! i sure do ! so excited to watch this beauty grow and get big, i dont get rid of pets, if have a pet its until I die, or the pet does so this girl will be with me for a long time, cant wait to see what adventures await us ! I will use the munson chart for feeding, but i need to get a scale to weigh mine. that is on the order list. also need a Infrared thermometer, a digital in-tank thermometer, and some other goodies. Im sure another snake or 2 is in my future as well. i know its best not to handle for a few days after feeding, but with only one snake that means not enough cuddle time with my snake friend, so multiple serpents is in order !! maybe a few more corns, and some other well picked species as well im sure. I LOVE some of the Ball Pythons, they have a great size and i love their head shape, but i wont play the $2000 morph game, a less expensive morph or even a normal is fine with me for now, nothing wrong with normal, thats all anyone used to have back in the day, they all deserve our love and respect. but i admit i do love some morphs, i have seen some good prices on Bumble bee and i LOVE that morph and it’s a good price. Im just worried about the whole hard time with feeding issue that balls are known to have. So we shall see. Maybe I will get another cool morph corn snake that will make a nice pair with my Girl so they can have babies we shall see. What other snake species do you all like that are not super hard to keep? Anyone like lizards? I didn’t think I had much interest but there seems to be some cool one, bearded dragons seem like cool creatures. I WISH chameleons were more personable and liked to be held more, but I hear they are very shy. Anyways, thanks for all the great help you have given me !
 
funkehouse said:
i know its best not to handle for a few days after feeding, but with only one snake that means not enough cuddle time with my snake friend, so multiple serpents is in order !!
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I like how you think!

There's nothing wrong with a nice, normal ball python. Just make sure it's eating FT. I'm particular to Florida and Appalachicola king snakes. And California kings.

I had a bearded dragon that was my love- Isabel- there are tons of posts about her here. I think I might like to try a blue-tongued skink when I have a lizard vacancy. No live insects!!

If you buy a mate for your snake, first- verify her sex! Then, I'd choose something that was homozygous bloodred, so you just don't have to guess about that with the hatchlings. So- pewter, fire, granite, blood stripe, blood tessera, plasma- there are so many to choose from.
 
Rosy boas, African House snakes and Western Hognose are all great smaller species if you want to try something other than a corn. Kings and milks can be good snakes too. Another corn is always a good choice as well and there are so many morphs to chose from with them!

Crested and Gargoyle geckos are a very easy lizard to keep as well.
 
Tavia said:
Rosy boas, African House snakes and Western Hognose are all great smaller species if you want to try something other than a corn. Kings and milks can be good snakes too. Another corn is always a good choice as well and there are so many morphs to chose from with them!

Crested and Gargoyle geckos are a very easy lizard to keep as well.
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I dig those Western Hognose, they just have that Look that screams rattle snake but a whole lot less costly if bitten ! they stay fairly small it seem too, may have to look into one of those as well one day.
 
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