I'm new to this hobby.
I just bought 3 corn snakes at a reptile show in mesa this last weekend, and thought I'd get on to see what I can learn about these, and other guys.
I live in the Phoenix area.
Bought a snow corn, and a red corn from the snake vault, and an okeegee, or whatever he is, from a fella from california. Nice looking snake.
They are all hatchlings, around 14 inches, and the red is a big larger than the other two, and lazier too. He only hangs out in the hide, haven't seen him out since I put the first hide in the tank.
The okee would go in there with the red, but when I but the piggy bank in the okee started hanging in there.
My snow corn won't go into the hides. It prefers hiding under the bedding. He also seems a bit more unhappy when handled. Grumpy, eh mate...
I stopped by the pet store on the way home and bought a couple frozen pinkies and fed them. Went in the next day and bought 2 male and 4 female mice to breed for pinkies.
One of the males got out of the bag and box he was in, and hid under the back seat of the car, so the next day I bought a havahart live trap and he was in it the day after that
After the second male escaped I dedided to put the 4 females with the one male, and I think I'll get a couple more females for the second male so I can get many pinkies fast, in case something happens I'll have a supply, not to mention have some new stock to raise to replace the old Yummy mice. MMM Mmmm good.
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The were friendly at the show, but they are very shy now that I got them home. Maybe I need to put 500 miles on em and change the oil...
I put them in a low 20 gallon tank with a slide top, and a saucer of water, and aspen bedding. I put a commercial hide, with a lifting top on it, and a piggy bank turned sideways for hides. One end of the tank has a repti heat pad attached directly to the bottom glass with space between the tank and table it's on, to lift the tank up for heat venting.
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