gworfish
New member
Hi everyone,
We've just gone through some house moving of some of our corns in an attempt to get everyone into a better housing situation. We picked up two juvenile girls and their shared accomodation: a 29 gallon aquarium. We wanted to move them into separate accomodations, which lead to partitioning a 40 gallon tank. That plan seems to have worked out fine.
However we wanted to use the 29 gallon to up-size the dwelling of our adult. What he came is was quite awful; cramped for his size, no lip on the top to secure a lid with anything but heavy books, and one side was even cracked! From posts I've seen here we thought a 29 gallon would be well sized for him. But we've moved him in, and it just seems far too cramped:
(It is hard to see in the picture, but there isn't very much room for him to move around the perimeter.)
We've just put in a smaller water dish (deeper but narrower) to give him some more crawling room. We also have thought about smaller hides, but based on how much of their inside room he takes up I think they are sized right. Our current idea (which we can't test out because all the stores would be closed right now) is to try a combo hide/water bowl like what I saw here.
He hasn't come out of his rock since we moved him, which I've chalked up to moving stress (I'm the same way whenever I move). But the more we look at his new home the more we think he doesn't really have a lot of space to actually move around in when he does decide to come out. The tank is 30"x12" on the floor, and he's about 54" long....
Am I crazy for worrying too much about this? Is a 29 gallon large enough for an adult corn? Is our problem too much furniture? Should we move one of his hides up onto a raised platform to give him more "floor space"? Should we move him into a spare huge tank (36"x18"x20", 60 gallon I think).
Apologies for the long post, but I'm a wordy guy. Any thoughts/feedback would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Ian.
We've just gone through some house moving of some of our corns in an attempt to get everyone into a better housing situation. We picked up two juvenile girls and their shared accomodation: a 29 gallon aquarium. We wanted to move them into separate accomodations, which lead to partitioning a 40 gallon tank. That plan seems to have worked out fine.
However we wanted to use the 29 gallon to up-size the dwelling of our adult. What he came is was quite awful; cramped for his size, no lip on the top to secure a lid with anything but heavy books, and one side was even cracked! From posts I've seen here we thought a 29 gallon would be well sized for him. But we've moved him in, and it just seems far too cramped:
(It is hard to see in the picture, but there isn't very much room for him to move around the perimeter.)
We've just put in a smaller water dish (deeper but narrower) to give him some more crawling room. We also have thought about smaller hides, but based on how much of their inside room he takes up I think they are sized right. Our current idea (which we can't test out because all the stores would be closed right now) is to try a combo hide/water bowl like what I saw here.
He hasn't come out of his rock since we moved him, which I've chalked up to moving stress (I'm the same way whenever I move). But the more we look at his new home the more we think he doesn't really have a lot of space to actually move around in when he does decide to come out. The tank is 30"x12" on the floor, and he's about 54" long....
Am I crazy for worrying too much about this? Is a 29 gallon large enough for an adult corn? Is our problem too much furniture? Should we move one of his hides up onto a raised platform to give him more "floor space"? Should we move him into a spare huge tank (36"x18"x20", 60 gallon I think).
Apologies for the long post, but I'm a wordy guy. Any thoughts/feedback would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Ian.
