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What does your biggest/adult corn eat?

I'm not sure on either. My adult male is huge(not fat) but I won him on an auction and he was apparently found in an engine of a uhaul truck, so age is unknown. My female is quiet a bit smaller so gets smaller rats. I got her at a reptile show. All they told me was she was a early 2010. I have a scale on the way in the mail as I couldnt find one around here. The rats I feed the male are the size of a large adult mouse and the female gets the size of a small adult
Mouse.
 
Jessica29 said:
I'm not sure on either. My adult male is huge(not fat) but I won him on an auction and he was apparently found in an engine of a uhaul truck, so age is unknown. My female is quiet a bit smaller so gets smaller rats. I got her at a reptile show. All they told me was she was a early 2010. I have a scale on the way in the mail as I couldnt find one around here. The rats I feed the male are the size of a large adult mouse and the female gets the size of a small adult
Mouse.
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Ohhhhh really?? :) I would love to see pics of the one u won at the auction? Idk it's weird with these feeder sizes, they're all different sizes from other feeders that say they're the same size!
 
I thought there was a member here who only fed raw chicken, but I looked for the thread and saw it was cooked. I want to know what the point is for cooking it?

I work with raw meats everyday at work, so it doesn't bother me. I don't really know how it would be dangerous for the snakes, considering that predatory animals are designed to eat raw meat. There's no difference between a chick and what we cook for dinner. I don't really understand cooking meats for animals any way.

I couldn't feed chicks though. If there is one animal in the world that I absolutely LOVE it is baby chickens. When I was dating the guy with the monitor lizards, he bought a bunch of chicks to feed them, despite the fact that I was bawling and begging him not to, and then he put all of them in the lizards cage. Half of them drowned and the other half got ripped to pieces. I'm scarred for life. I can't even look at frozen chicks without bawling.
 
I was pretty confused with prey size at first too. And if you get feeders from a pet store it can be frustrating explaining the size. Luckily my pet store lets me "help myself" so I can be picky on size. After a few feeds you get to know which snakes need which size. This is the guy from the auction. He's secretly my favorite. He's so big and gentle, and even manages to make me laugh. My Amel, Nova. the pic makes him look small but I assure you, he's not. Can't wait to get weights.

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AliCat37 said:
I thought there was a member here who only fed raw chicken, but I looked for the thread and saw it was cooked. I want to know what the point is for cooking it?

I work with raw meats everyday at work, so it doesn't bother me. I don't really know how it would be dangerous for the snakes, considering that predatory animals are designed to eat raw meat. There's no difference between a chick and what we cook for dinner. I don't really understand cooking meats for animals any way.

I couldn't feed chicks though. If there is one animal in the world that I absolutely LOVE it is baby chickens. When I was dating the guy with the monitor lizards, he bought a bunch of chicks to feed them, despite the fact that I was bawling and begging him not to, and then he put all of them in the lizards cage. Half of them drowned and the other half got ripped to pieces. I'm scarred for life. I can't even look at frozen chicks without bawling.
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Oh wow, that's mean. He had no compassion for your feelings.
 
Jessica29 said:
I was pretty confused with prey size at first too. And if you get feeders from a pet store it can be frustrating explaining the size. Luckily my pet store lets me "help myself" so I can be picky on size. After a few feeds you get to know which snakes need which size. This is the guy from the auction. He's secretly my favorite. He's so big and gentle, and even manages to make me laugh. My Amel, Nova. the pic makes him look small but I assure you, he's not. Can't wait to get weights.

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Beautiful snake! :)
 
Jessica29 said:
I'm not sure on either. My adult male is huge(not fat) but I won him on an auction and he was apparently found in an engine of a uhaul truck, so age is unknown. My female is quiet a bit smaller so gets smaller rats. I got her at a reptile show. All they told me was she was a early 2010. I have a scale on the way in the mail as I couldnt find one around here. The rats I feed the male are the size of a large adult mouse and the female gets the size of a small adult
Mouse.
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Rats the size of a small adult (weanling) would be a rat fuzzy, or there abouts.
Rats the size of a large adult (assuming you're not referring to a jumbo adult) then that is about the size of a rat pup, a bit bigger than a rat fuzzy, but smaller than a rat weanling.

I'm not opposed to feeding rats to larger corns, but I personally don't recommend feeding baby rats because they are not fully developed & don't have the nutrients that a fully developed mouse would have. It's the main reason I don't completely switch my Carpets over to rats until they're eating XL/Jumbo mice, then they can transition to rat weanlings.
I do offer baby rats here & there, occationally, so they're used to the taste, but their primary food source is mice until they are big enough to eat fully developed rats.

My 400-500+ gram Corns get XL/Jumbo mice.
 
So it's ok to give a 300 gram snake a jumbo? Why I'm asking is because my snake is way over 300 grams and when he eats a large adult mouse I never see a lump anymore. He gets fed every 14 days.
 
Sarah1228 said:
So it's ok to give a 300 gram snake a jumbo? Why I'm asking is because my snake is way over 300 grams and when he eats a large adult mouse I never see a lump anymore. He gets fed every 14 days.
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I personally don't give my adult corns XL adult mice until they're over 400 grams.
170-400 grams get regular adult mice.
 
The corns that I feed weanling rats to are both well over 1000 grams and not fat at all. They get fed about every 2 weeks. :)

What I call a weanling rat is at the age of atleast 21 days old up to about 5 weeks of age.
 
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