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What ELSE can i feed him??

SHAKSNAKE

SHAKSNAKE

The crappy keeper!
i plan on feeding my corn a green anole this week, a bit expensive but hey just once every couple months wont hurt me lol. i also heard fertile quail eggs or small frogs are also good.

anyone have any suggestions? i'm not sure what frogs are ok to feed, any help would be appreciated. thanks!
 
I wouldn't vary the food if it's eating rodents...
Rodents supply all the nutritional needs required..
And it might get a taste for expensive treats all the time if you start now..
JMO
 
snakewispera snr said:
I wouldn't vary the food if it's eating rodents...
Rodents supply all the nutritional needs required..
And it might get a taste for expensive treats all the time if you start now..
JMO
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thanks but i know corns eat frogs, eggs, and other lizards in the wild. even birds too, and i want to recreate that same diet. i don't plan on giving him something different every week but once every 2 months i want to do one of the animals i mentioned above instead of a rodent, birds come later though lol. if you have any help or suggestions on that i'd appreciate it. thanks.
 
Obviously you only plan on doing it every month or so.... I was thinking about the snake,,, It may have other plans...
I once had a Bp that someone decided a hamster treat would be cool... It liked them so much it refused mice, rats etc from there on in... rats cost pennies... Hamsters were expensive....
Your snake, your choice.... I would keep thing simple.... Only my opinion of course, but if it ain't broke don't fix it....
 
Seeing your not catching anoles and frogs in the wilds of NYC and buying them from a pet shop, I wouldn't do it. The quail eggs are fine and there are many exotic bird breeders for you to get fresh eggs from nearby in the Catskill region. I used to buy rabbits and eggs from them years ago. It's fun to see your snake get excited over a half dozen eggs found hiding in his cage. Corn snakes in the wild are eating eggs and baby birds almost exclusively in the spring and early summer. Anoles and frogs can have who knows what as far as intestinal parasites that can be passed on to your snake.
 
I really see no reason to be feeding your corn snake other things except mice. They get EVERYTHING (nutrition) they need from the mice. And since the snake is not in 'the wild' there's no need to recreate anything. Its captive bred and ~!I!~ Belive you shouldent do anything different. But thats just my opinion. ;)
 
dickdeuel said:
Seeing your not catching anoles and frogs in the wilds of NYC and buying them from a pet shop, I wouldn't do it. The quail eggs are fine and there are many exotic bird breeders for you to get fresh eggs from nearby in the Catskill region. I used to buy rabbits and eggs from them years ago. It's fun to see your snake get excited over a half dozen eggs found hiding in his cage. Corn snakes in the wild are eating eggs and baby birds almost exclusively in the spring and early summer. Anoles and frogs can have who knows what as far as intestinal parasites that can be passed on to your snake.
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thanks for the help! i'm going to look into the quail eggs. he's not big enough to eat birds just yet. i'd have to wait maybe a year or 2 for that. i might pass on the anoles i guess unless i find a breeder i can trust. but thanks for actually giving me information instead of just giving your opinion on the matter. i appreciate that.
 
snakewispera snr said:
I once had a Bp that someone decided a hamster treat would be cool... It liked them so much it refused mice, rats etc from there on in... rats cost pennies... Hamsters were expensive....
Your snake, your choice.... I would keep thing simple.... Only my opinion of course, but if it ain't broke don't fix it....
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good point. i'll consider it. there's actually a shop here that sells hamsters for less than a mouse. 99 cents for a dwarf hamster. it would have worked out for ur friend if he lived here :rofl:
 
Do not feed anoles unless you deworm them first. Anoles in pet stores are wild caught, and are very likely to have internal parasites that they CAN pass on to your snake.
 
I admit I like to mix up the diet a little because in the wild cornsnakes eat varying things. I have thought about starting an anole colony so I could have clean ones, and if I ever have the space I may well do so. I figure if I go thru a couple generations and deworm every generation, I should eventually have parasite-free anoles. Besides, I always wanted anoles as a kid, so now I could have them! In the meantime, I use suitably sized subadult rats as a once-in-a-while meal, and also chicks for the big corns who can handle that size meal. Nobody (so far!) has refused mice. If I ever get back into the fancy rodent community & had access to culled hamsters or gerbils, I'd consider them too (p/k or f/t of course).

Edit: I may look for a source of quail eggs. That looks like it would be fun to watch as well as fun for the snake. and the shells should provide lots of calcium so it might actually be a little bit beneficial, as opposed to just satisfying my desire to provide nutritional variety. I've also considered, if I ever have a mouse colony, keeping Peromyscus (deer mice) because although WC Peromyscus would be parasite-laden, it should be possible to raise up a colony of clean ones. I know someone who did research on them, and their lab had a colony, and they were as free of parasites as M. mus. domesticus.
 
i agree i wouldn't stray away from feeding them rodents because again they can get an expensive taste on them. But if you want something new that i don't think it was mentioned yet why don't you try a baby chick depending on size. Anyone correct me if this is a bad thing to feed them chicks i honestly heard it was okay.
 
SHAKSNAKE said:
thanks but i know corns eat frogs, eggs, and other lizards in the wild. even birds too, and i want to recreate that same diet. i don't plan on giving him something different every week but once every 2 months i want to do one of the animals i mentioned above instead of a rodent, birds come later though lol. if you have any help or suggestions on that i'd appreciate it. thanks.
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Compare their diet in the wild, with a strictly rodent diet in captivity.
Then compare their average lifespan in the wild, to their average lifespan in captivity.

There's a direct correlation...people feed rodents for a reason ;)
 
wstphal said:
I admit I like to mix up the diet a little because in the wild cornsnakes eat varying things. I have thought about starting an anole colony so I could have clean ones, and if I ever have the space I may well do so. I figure if I go thru a couple generations and deworm every generation, I should eventually have parasite-free anoles. Besides, I always wanted anoles as a kid, so now I could have them! In the meantime, I use suitably sized subadult rats as a once-in-a-while meal, and also chicks for the big corns who can handle that size meal. Nobody (so far!) has refused mice. If I ever get back into the fancy rodent community & had access to culled hamsters or gerbils, I'd consider them too (p/k or f/t of course).

Edit: I may look for a source of quail eggs. That looks like it would be fun to watch as well as fun for the snake. and the shells should provide lots of calcium so it might actually be a little bit beneficial, as opposed to just satisfying my desire to provide nutritional variety. I've also considered, if I ever have a mouse colony, keeping Peromyscus (deer mice) because although WC Peromyscus would be parasite-laden, it should be possible to raise up a colony of clean ones. I know someone who did research on them, and their lab had a colony, and they were as free of parasites as M. mus. domesticus.
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Wst if you wanted to catch Anoles you should move to Florida I have those Brown Anoles running all around my house by the hundreds! :laugh::laugh:
 
Has anyone actually seen an adult corn snake eat an anole or frog? I know that hatchlings in the wild will try to eat almost anything that moves, but as adults most are eating warm blooded prey. Maybe someone on here in Florida has seen them. I was just curious.
 
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