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#1859331
Salman2
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 How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
how old would that be about??? 
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09/14/08 01:40pm
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#1860211
ILoveGreen
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Message To: Salman2 In reference to Message Id: 1859331
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
Hard to say because it would matter how much the Corn Snake was fed and how often. I’ve seen year old corns that look like hatchlings and year old corn that were 3 feet long. I’d guess 1 1/2-2 1/2 years old.
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09/15/08 12:51pm
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#1860711
Okeetee Man
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Message To: ILoveGreen In reference to Message Id: 1860211
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
Just a yearling.
-Nate
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09/15/08 09:39pm
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#1860822
Scaly
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Message To: Okeetee Man In reference to Message Id: 1860711
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
I have a pair of yearlings that are way different in size just like I Love Green was Saying, they are from the same clutch, both female, Pumpkin would probably eat every day if she could get it, and Cheetah Girl didnt thrive well from the start, but has recently started to eat almost every week, she finally ate 2 pinkies yesterday, Pumpkin stuffs down small mice with no problem and cruises the cage looking for more,they are a year old Pumpkin is at least 3 feet, and Cheetah girl is still like a baby, like a little minature. They are both kept at the same temps and humidity, different enclosures of corse, here is a picture of them together, couldnt get Pumpkin to come out of her skull, but you can see the difference in their width. 
Cheetah Girl is my little girls snake, so its fine with me if she stays tiny, as long as she is healthy.
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09/16/08 01:23am
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#1860873
RjAmelcorn
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Message To: Scaly In reference to Message Id: 1860822
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
Coolo skull and crossbone themed tank!!
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09/16/08 07:51am
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#1861258
Jakerz
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Message To: RjAmelcorn In reference to Message Id: 1860873
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
Huh. that’s weird. i didn’t know that they’re could be THAT much difference. neat.
jakerz
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09/16/08 06:28pm
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#1861288
XKellyxVeitx
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Message To: Jakerz In reference to Message Id: 1861258
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
My snake is one year old as of yesterday and it three and a half feet long. It all just depends on how much you feed.
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09/16/08 06:56pm
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#1861347
Jyson
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Message To: XKellyxVeitx In reference to Message Id: 1861288
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
My sister had one that was about a year old at that size.
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09/16/08 07:40pm
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#1861355
Scaly
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Message To: XKellyxVeitx In reference to Message Id: 1861288
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
Thanks RjAmelcorn, thats Uncle Crackers tank you can see in the background, he is a ghost, you can see him under the cave under the water dish on the left if you look close. I love to pick up stuff when the Halloween decorations are out for sale(like now) those skulls are glass/ceramic candle holders I picked up a few years ago after Haloween for crazy cheap when everything went on sale, the skull and cross bones I just bought at Ross(its resin)for just like $5. If you check out the garden decorations you can also find some really neat cage decor way cheaper than buying it in the pet section. Ill show you Ruby, shes not a corn, but I love her Asian Buddah, I picked that up in the nick knack section at a discount store too for just a few bucks. And I used bamboo place mats as her background, 
And here is Uncle Cracker, old pic. He is old and close to 6 feet.
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09/16/08 07:42pm
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#1862627
ShadowAceD
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Message To: Scaly In reference to Message Id: 1861355
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
Basically, what everyone else has said, it depends on the health and breeding of the snake. For instance, I have two cornsnakes - one is a male Snow who is almost two years old and already over four feet long (close to five) and the other is a female Abbott’s Okeetee x Miami that is a little over half a year and barely over a foot. They have both been fed in the same manner as I feed all my snakes, but the Miami Cross is destined to be smaller just because of genetics. She is still as healthy as the Snow, but is simply smaller. There is no true way to tell the age of a snake by size. Some grow larger and quicker than others and some seem to hardly grow at all. It all just depends on the snake.
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09/18/08 03:08pm
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#1901988
Multireps
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Message To: ShadowAceD In reference to Message Id: 1862627
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
well they very on how often you feed them. its like asking how old is a 5’ kid. mine is 2 feet long and skiny. hes about 2 years now. some have some 3’ at 1 year.
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11/20/08 11:54am
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#1902024
Heatseeker872591
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Message To: Salman2 In reference to Message Id: 1859331
How old is a 2 1/2 foot corn?
my corn snake is just over 2 years old and he is just under (by about a cm) 3 and a half foot long. by what i have read and my research on how old peoples corn snakes are compared to what size they are at that age, id say mines an average sized corn snake for his age. it all depens on if they are getting the right sized meal and how often they are being fed, i feed mine once every 7 days and will continue to do so till he reaches at least 4 and a half feet, then ill probably cut it down to once every 10days as hes more or less an adult by then. but about the food sized subject, theres alot of people out there who dont know about what snakes are capable of eating , and when a corn for example is at the age and size to be on hoppers, some ppl to get a bit scared and dont think their corn snake cud handle that sized food so continue to feed it fuzzies, and thats when the corn snake isnt getting as nourished as it should be and growth rate slows down. but theres also the opposite called power feeding when ppl feed their snake more than how often it should be or feeding it double the amount of food it should be , this will accelerate growth rate very rapidly but can cause health problems at a later date ,also have heard it can make the snakes head smaller than it should be in comparison size to its body.
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11/20/08 01:55pm
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#1902067
Concolor1
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Message To: Heatseeker872591 In reference to Message Id: 1902024
What Everyone Else Said . . .
My youngest corn, "BB" was hatched on July 7, 2007, and she’s right at two-and-a-half feet. Genetics for different races doubtless come into play; her father is a hypo who’s a husky three-and-a-half footer I raised from a hatchling. I cut back on the size of his feedings when it became apparent to me it was mostly going to increased girth rather than length. I bought her mother as an adult; she was somewhat slender but still managed to produce a dozen eggs in what was likely her first clutch . . . Both adults will be headed for a brumation/cooling period as soon as they digest last night’s meals (an adult mouse for Poppa, a small rat for Momma). I’ll give the youngster another year of growth and then--since I’m not a fan of linebreeding--I’ll be looking for another male corn with a suitable bloodline . . .
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11/20/08 03:42pm
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#1902081
Heatseeker872591
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Message To: Concolor1 In reference to Message Id: 1902067
What Everyone Else Said . . .
i dont think the colour morphs have anything to do with size what so ever, its the genetics, get a big 5 foot male and a good size 4 and half foot female no matter what colour, and the young will ,most probably be in that size range too. too many people out there are breeding small adults and therefore some adults will be lucky to hit 4 foot in the future.
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11/20/08 04:20pm
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Concolor1
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Message To: Heatseeker872591 In reference to Message Id: 1902081
I Wasn’t Implying There’s Much of a . . .
Relationship between morphs and the eventual size of a snake. I do know some populations are associated with both larger and smaller individuals, and if a morph originally appeared in an individual with "smaller" genes, breeding that individual into another line to "fix" the morph will also mean bringing in genes that dictate the length and girth of the eventual offspring.
That’s all. You’ve hit on a principle animal breeders realized was operative long before Mendel did his stuff with pea plants, namely that individuals with similar characteristics will tend to produce offspring that are like their parents.
And of course, a parent with genes for "bigness" will pass those qualities on to their descendants, even if, say, environmental or maturational factors prevented them from fulfilling their "absolute potential." Female corns that are bred at a fairly young age will also probably tend to be smaller (because of the demands egg production place on their bodies and metabolism), and those factors operate independently of genetics and won’t be passed on to subsequent generations. Again, that is an environmental rather than a genetic factor . . .
I haven’t looked over the literature on corn snake genetics much (beyond the Love’s book), but I have no doubt the ordinary principles of dominant/recessive operate as well as the "incomplete dominance" we see in, say, freshwater angelfish (where genetic studies have been done extensively). In this last instance, pairs of genes (known as "alleles") may yield one characteristic if only one gene is present, another characteristic if two genes are paired (in the case of angelfish, black lace versus all black angels) and yet also produce "normal, wild-type" individuals (a pair of identical black lace angels would "ordinarily" produce 25% black, 25% black lace, and 25% wild type offspring, assuming of course all the young survived, a huge assumption naturally).
Have fun with this stuff. As I’ve said here before, I tend to prefer animals that are at least somewhat close to "wild types" (whether snakes or tropical fish; albino corn snakes and albino tiger barbs both leave me muttering "Ho hum," simply because that’s the direction my tastes lie). But there’s room for everyone on this subject . . .
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11/20/08 07:29pm
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