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What to keep a new baby in

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remy

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I was wondering what is the best thing to keep a baby corn in, I have heard Deli cups are good what do you all think.
 
Too small. A 6Q rubbermaid or sterilite tub works great & is very inexpensive. Ten gallon aquariums are fine but cost more unless you find one on Craigslist or the pet store is having a sale.
 
Hey remy,

If it was me and I only had one baby corn. I would get a 20L tank with UTH and T-stat for the UTH and a water dish so I only had to buy everything once.

For hides, I would use old butter tubs and old paper towel tubs.

Love the Fatman
 
I keep my new hatchlings in sandwich boxes which are 3 litres then at about 5-6 months they get put in 9 litre rubs
 
I would go to the "My New Baby Corn Setup" thread by "dryw1992"

It's in this "Husbandry and Basic Care" forum There are a couple good ideas and reasons of why they use it

Also it talks about handling your new baby corn :)
 
I'm not all about buying stuff then having to keep switching them into bigger things as they grow. Waste of money. My hatchling is in a 20g long with Aspen bedding (which serves as a hide in itself), water bowl, vines and leaves, and lots of hides. So many that he can basically get from one end to the other unseen, which will make them feel safer.Right now Petco is doing their $1 per gallon tank sale, so you can get a 20g for $20, very good deal, I'd jump on it.
 
Thanks for all your impute, the reason I ask is because I got my first corn and he wouldn't eat, tried everything. I contacted the breeder and he gave me a pair in exchange for the one who wouldn't eat. I had him in a 2.7 L tub with 2 hides and a water bowl and a UTH set at 83 on the hot side regulated with a thermostat. The breeder said that he keeps his babies in deli cups until they get a little bigger then moves them to the tubs. I thought maybe what I had the previous corn in was too big and maybe he felt insecure, hence the refusal to eat. I just wanted to make sure I was doing things rite. I am just a nervous newbie. I have BP's and have never had a problem. I just wanted to make sure it was the snake and not me.
 
I feed my babies in deli cups or the equivalent, but I just pop them in the deli cup with the pink(s) and put the deli cup back in the tub & move on to the next one, and by the time I get to the end most of the babies at the beginning are done with dinner and I carefully pour them out of the deli cup into the tub. I have lots of deli cups and other small containers of the same size for the purpose. Works great, improves feeding success (little babies often don't eat unless dinner is RIGHT in front of their noses) but allows them some room to slither in between meals. A 2.7L tub seems quite reasonable as a home, and the set up sounds fine. Some baby corns are just not gonna eat, it doesn't sound like it was poor care on your part. If you already have BPs you know the basics about hides, water, temp control, humidity, all that stuff.

Dragon666's -- the sandwich boxes sound like a good smaller option. Thanks!

Oh, and Taz -- nothing wrong IMHO with the 20L from the get-go, I just like the smaller containers because I have expanded my population so much!
 
You're doing fine. Don't worry about the "my viv is too big for my wee baby corn" school of thought. Corn snakes hatch out in the wide, wild world - much larger than the largest viv! - and do just fine. Babies (adults too, for that matter) need sufficient hides to feel secure, but the size of the viv is a convenience for the keeper so long as it's large enough for the health of the snake. Betsy's right about some individuals needing to be fed in a smaller container, but when it comes to living space the choice is really up to you.
 
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