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deborahbroadus
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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: Ruby the Corn snake |
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She's settling in pretty good. Not snappy, eating happily has eaten two f/t mice and one live rat fuzzy since I have had her (trying to switch her to rats.
This is her set up above. Warmed with 2 Uths on the bottom *controlled by a thermostat* and a big water bowl...advice is welcome. My understanding is that they don't need as much humidity as BPs and relatively little cover (I have two hides). She loves (apparently) to burrow beneath the surface.
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MikeandSlick
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In regards to not needing as much cover as bp's, it couldn't hurt right? Like if there were some branches and foliage she would feel more secure outside of his hides, thus getting more exercise? I have no corn experience, so this is a question not advice.
PS - purdy snake!
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deborahbroadus
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| MikeandSlick wrote: | In regards to not needing as much cover as bp's, it couldn't hurt right? Like if there were some branches and foliage she would feel more secure outside of his hides, thus getting more exercise? I have no corn experience, so this is a question not advice.
PS - purdy snake! |
Consider it done! By next picture she will have foliage and a nice background and decorations! 
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magana559
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Thats A Nice Corn! Not Much of A Corn Fan But I Must Say Thats A Nice Corn!
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NickMyers03
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nice corn, yes something to climb on would be good. corns LOVE to climb.
what is the standard temp of her cage? mines on my rack so it stays steady 80 or so
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deborahbroadus
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Using the temp gun..it was 85. Cool end is 70 (nothing there..I can put a light there if necessary..I have some downstairs.)
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todd13
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nice set up
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arlynos
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Nice set up and corn Deb, I love the coloration on the corn.
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Herphero
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are corn snakes a quicker snake to handle? I would be worried to buy such a small one, thinking that it would be so fast that it might get away. Yours is pretty big, how old is Ruby?
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ryancbj22
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They can be a little tricky to handle when there small, but there not bad at all you get used to it!
Nick is right Deb I have a bunch of corn's and they love to climb. I just use the fake suction cup plants they work great.
Corn's don't need as much humidity at all. When mine goes into shed I mist the tank twice a day and I have never had a bad shed.
I think you'll find that they are extremley easy to take care of. Very predictitable!
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deborahbroadus
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| Herphero wrote: | | are corn snakes a quicker snake to handle? I would be worried to buy such a small one, thinking that it would be so fast that it might get away. Yours is pretty big, how old is Ruby? |
I THOUGHT I answered this. Anyway..Ruby is approximately 1 year old. She's more slender than I am used to (I love the full bodied weight of BPs) and so I had to get a locking tank so that she couldn't get out. I don't plan to have any escapes (knock on wood) cause she's so slender, I will never find her if she gets out. 
It's not so much that she's fast as that she's so thin, she's hard to spot.
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deborahbroadus
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| ryancbj22 wrote: | They can be a little tricky to handle when there small, but there not bad at all you get used to it!
Nick is right Deb I have a bunch of corn's and they love to climb. I just use the fake suction cup plants they work great.
Corn's don't need as much humidity at all. When mine goes into shed I mist the tank twice a day and I have never had a bad shed.
I think you'll find that they are extremley easy to take care of. Very predictitable! |
I'll get this taken care of asap. I get off work late..so it'll have to wait till this weekend, there aren't any dollar stores around me at work. but i will make this a heaven for her.
Stay tuned!
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jb.t3ch
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ruby is very pretty
also you mentioned she has eaten a mouse and a rat fuzzy, i havnt in some time but when the local stores were out of mice and had rat fuzzies i would feed my corn them. she took them no prob. i wonder how come corns will go back and forth but balls dont.
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deborahbroadus
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| jb.t3ch wrote: | ruby is very pretty
also you mentioned she has eaten a mouse and a rat fuzzy, i havnt in some time but when the local stores were out of mice and had rat fuzzies i would feed my corn them. she took them no prob. i wonder how come corns will go back and forth but balls dont. |
My balls do.  Just a matter of conditioning them (and I think that it helps the switching process to season the prey being switched with the prefered prey, and offer live prey while doing the switch). When my bps were young, they ate whatever I had, mice, rats and the occasional gerbil (so they grew up recognizing these as prey items).
The problem is now that they eat those things, they are older and some of them don't like ASF..so I have to condition them to ASF also..but it's not really important, so I haven't focused on it.
Point is BPs eat everything too, I was even feeding the slow feeders chicks at one time (it helps to have optimal conditions in which they will eat.)
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