Other pets (pics and discussions)

[RedSidedSPR]

Baby corn snakes always look skinny when i see them. Don't know.

[Charis]

With mine, I fed every 5 days until they were on to bigger fuzzies or hopper sized mice, then went to a 7 day feeding schedule. That has worked well so far. My three have been on double adult mice for about the last 8 months, they outgrew that size quickly. Just have about another 3 feedings worth left of that size and then they will go to extra large adults I just bought. I know most people go to a 14 to 21 day schedule with their adults but mine seem to maintain the best weight on the 7 day schedule. It seems to vary quite a bit between individual adults. I had corns before I got garters, no longer have any, and I know the feeding schedule for the garters seemed quite excessive when I was first reading up on them!

[snakehill]

I had adults corns (this is my first baby) and I fed them every 7 days too!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

baby corns it is fine to give them two or even three pinks in a sitting... I always do to any of my young colubrids. Those little pinkies are small, and remember if a baby corn found himself a nest of mice or baby birds/eggs in the wild he would certainly not just help himself to one and leave the rest!! Especially when they start putting on size, but the next size up is still too large and makes them uncomfortable, it's easier to give them two or three smaller ones. I noticed if you try to push a bigger feeder on them too soon it is more likely to lead to a regurge than a few smaller ones. As a general rule of thumb adults you just feed them one feeder as thick as the fattest part of the snake.... females you can keep at once per week, if they start to get fat you can reduce the size mouse a little.... males will sometimes still grow fat off this regimen so every 10-14 days for them and making sure they have space to move about seems to keep them from getting "rolls". As you can tell... I don't like fat snakes! A fat snake is short lived and will make for a lazy breeder!

[RedSidedSPR]

Thanks Shannon.

[Charis]

Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid about my snakes getting fat. It's so hard to get off once the extra weight is there! But at least so far, the adults are maintaining good body shape on the 7 days, I've moved them out to 10 or 14 days a few times but then their spines get just a bit too visible. The ones that I'm more worried about are the Rosys and the Hog, I'm pretty good at judging a good amount of weight and mucle tone on the thinner bodied snakes but trying to strike the right balance with the naturally stockier snakes is harder! I just got a good picture of my female corn, Stormy. I'll have to post it sometime, unfortunately I can't post pics to forums on this device.

Edit. Got this one to work, yay!

[snakehill]

Thanks Shannon! I'll try 2 next time I feed (on thursday)

[Charis]

Here are two more cute pictures.

This one is Katara's (fiancé's kitten) reaction to her first introduction to my Chihuahua. Luckily they are getting along better now.



Then one of Bastian "killing" his dinner. He's the only snake I have that consistently constricts his meals.

[RedSidedSPR]

Awesome animals and pictures.

[EasternGirl]

Love the cat pic! My chihuahua tortures my poor cats...