New corn. <3 Also; is this normally? & Any name ideas?

[blindfireak40]

Beautiful girl!! I agree with those who said "Rose" or "Ruby", but I'd maybe name her something like "Oh No!" or "Surprise", cuz her eyes seem to make her look constantly surprised, especially in the 5-8th pictures

Once again, lovely little girl

[Lankyrob]

Personally i would say she is a yearling, here are pics of my two yearlings to compare. They both hatched in March 2010

[whoaxmary]

Does look about the same size as my baby.
She didn't even have a visable lump from the pinkie they fed her so I'm deffinetly getting something bigger for her. ;/

[Lankyrob]

My two ate their first fluffs yesterday - they have had HUGE pinkies at the shop the last few months so have been feeding them as the fluffs they had were way too big but this time the seemed to be "normal" sized pinks and fluffs.

[whoaxmary]

Well, I just changed her paper towel over; no signs of any mites dead or alive. Checked the inside of her hide for feces. (It's black and the little white flecks are easy to see; Blue had the same kinda of hide when I first found mites on her and it was covered) Didn't see anything. Hope it stays that way. <3 Going to follow through with the second nix treatment when it's time but if I still don't see anything I may just go ahead and take both snakes out of quarantine.

[Marica]

She could have been a slow eater (refusals) when she was younger. There's really no set numbers for weight/age, they all grow at their own pace. As long as she eats regularly for you and maintains a good figure (should be shaped like a loaf of bread) I'm sure she'll grow up just fine.

I'm not sure what to make of that poop, does look a little light and runny, but could be due to the stress of the move and new environment. If she looks healthy otherwise - no wheezing, mucus around the nose or mouth, and you don't see any sign of mites - I wouldn't stress her with a vet visit, but doing the fecal test is a good idea, let us know if anything shows up.

Not sure if you caught my post in the Post your Milk, Corn, King thread where you first posted her picture, but I also think that she is not a hypo lavender.

Originally Posted by Marica

Mary, that looks like a snow to me. I have seen some quite pinkish hypo lavs, but the eye colour does not match. If it was carrying the lavender gene the center of the eye should be dark red and surrounded by blue-gray whereas a snow's eyes will be pink. It does have a nice clean contrast between the bright pink saddles and background, so it could be a coral, which is a hypo snow.

Looking at more pictures of hypo lavs, it seems the saddles have a purplish tinge and the pink usually shows in the background colour. Did the previous owners produce her? If not, they may have been sold the snake with incorrect info. Or it could just be a morph name mixup, coral...cotton candy? I hope you don't mind me pointing this out, I just figure you'd want to have the correct info about your new little girl. Either way, she is one beautiful snaky

Hypo Lavender (aka Cotton Candy):


Hypo Snow (aka Coral):


Images taken from Ians Vivarium Cornsnake Morph Guide.

[whoaxmary]

No, I didn't catch that post. Thank you much for reposting it here.
I don't mind you pointing it out at!!~ She does look much more like the second picture.
They did not produce her, and they didn't even know what "hpyo- lavender" was - they just refered to her as candy cane, so it could very much be incorrect info. I looked up pictures of other candycanes, and realised she was much more pink then them, but I don't know very much about corns at all so I wasn't sure. Thanks, got to change that sigg.

[whoaxmary]

Contacted the prev. owners asking about Rubys genetics. This is what they sent me;

"i was told that it was a cottoncandy but we did get it from the pet store but it was the owners friend that was the breeder and its the yellow markings on her side that was what made her the cotton candycorn snake ! cuz when we got her she did not have that yellow marking but i coundn't tell you if thats true or not mary sorry "

[Hillsberry]

Pretty snake! Love corns!

[whoaxmary]

Thank you. She's been a great addition. Complete opposite of my lazy python.

[Shmoges]

I think its a snow like mine

[whoaxmary]

I deffinetly think she's a snow or hypo snow. I will charge my camera and get some more pictures up tommorow.

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by Shmoges

I think its a snow like mine

I thought snows were supposed to be pure white??

I have 4 snow garters and they are pure white, not one dab of colour anywhere??

[Marica]

Snow Corns are usually quite light, but can have hews of pink, yellow and even green and there are many line breed snow morphs that emphasize these. Hypo tends to make the colouring much brighter, hence why I think Mary's Ruby might be a hypo snow.

[mld]

Blizzards are pure white when adult!
http://iansvivarium.com/morphguide/blizzard/