Care Sheet for Corn SnakesAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.69 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 08/08/2005 |
Main Category: | Snakes |
Sub Category: | Corn Snakes |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Anonymous |
Years Experience: | Under 1 Year |
Species: | Corn Snakes |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | None |
Sexing and Characteristics: | Go to a vet or a local pet store that you trust and get them probed |
Mostly Active During: | Night |
Substrate and Water Needs: | For substrate u can use anything from newspaper to aspen bedding for an eye appealing substarte i would use aspen it works well but always try to feed your snake in a different cage because they may end up injesting the bedding
Never use bark from wicth u didnt buy u may give your snake mites also stay away from cedar u may give your snake a respitory infection |
Lighting and UVB: | U will not need any special UVB lighting |
Temperatures and Humidity: | I keep my temperature at 85-90 during the day and 75-78 at night if u have a hatchling try to keep it up higher then you would for older snakes also after u feed your snake raise the temperature to
As for humidity i would say keep it at around 55%-65% all of the time and when in shed try to leave right where it is as and maybe rise it a bit for an extremely successful shed |
Heating and Equipment: | I use a heat lamp a basking 90 wat bulb during the day and a 40 wat red light bulb at night
Also you can use a heat pad to but it may not always keep it warm enough
NEVER USE HEAT ROCKS THEY WILL BURN YOUR SNAKE |
Caging Provided: | For a hatcling a 10 gallon will do fine
For an adult corn use a minuimem of a 20 gallon tank but remeber bigger is always better |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | For hatcling 1 pinky a week
As they grow just up the size of the mouse from pinky to fuzzie to hopper etc. u may want to feed them once a week depending on what you are planing to do w/ your snake i would say every 10 days |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | None unless u feel the need to help your snake along |
Maintenance: | Change the water each day clean the tank about every 2 weeks along w/ the substrate depending on witch substrate you are using newspaper and papertowls may need to be changed more |
Some Words on this Species: | They are great for begginer’s very docile and rarely bite unless they feel threatended or they may be a little nippy when they are hatchlings because they feel the need to use there defenses |
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