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Asokk
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 Additional ?’s por favor

I read most of the postings to gain research on my new little baby girl
(i call her girl but we dont know what she is yet) "Misha" - 2 month old
Miami Phase (another guess).... i got a lot of my questions answered
but there are a few more that i was not able to find in the existing
message board. soooo.... we fed her last night for the first time. shes still on pinkies but we were afraid that the pinkie was too big... 1)how do you know if the mice are too big?? it took her a long time and we thought for a while that she was actually choking on it... it was quite scary.. so should i expect that every time???? She finally got it down and we werent sure when it was safe to pick her up and put her back in her home.. (we feed her f/t outside of her home) 2)so how long after she eats should we put her back home? should we let her relax and digest in the feeding shoe box??..... 3) how many days after she eats can we actually HANDLE her.... (we try to handle her daily... but i guess i could give here some time off is she needs it :0( .... ) ......4) does she have fangs yet? when will she get them....? ( im asking in preparation for the inevitable bite...) i missed my golden opportunity to see if she had fangs while she was yawning for the first time and i was too busy laughing at how cute it was..... ;0)....
5)we have a 75 watt black light which keeps her home at 84 deg below the bulb and a 10 deg difference on the other side.... is that a bit too low of a temp?? someone had said 85-90 deg.. so should i get a 100 watt bulb instead to raise the temp a couple degrees??
6) like i said - i want to handle her daily... shes very docile and i was wondering about taking her places with me when she gets bigger... regarding her body temp, is it not a good idea to take her out of My home... should i leave her in an area of constant warm temp’s? what are her limitations with travel..?

ok i believe that is all for now.... its quite a long post but i wanted to get my ?’s out in one clean sweep... thank you in advance for the answers --- and may i say, this is one of the nicest message boards ive seen in awhile.... im not kissin a** im merely acknowledging that this is quite the friendly message board... just like my baby girl Misha.....
have a lovely day and tell all your snakes hi for me.... (preferably in a tone as if your talking to a baby)

good day



01/05/05  2:57pm
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 #213981


CalKingOnyx
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  Message To: Asokk   In reference to Message Id: 213870


 Additional ?’s por favor

Hi and welcome to the board. I will do my best to answer some of your questions, although there are others I don’t know the answer to. I’m sure there are others who can help you out as well.

1) It is recommended that you feed the snake items that are no more than 1.5 times as big as the widest part of the snakes body. If you can, pick out the smallest pinkies you can find. As she gets bigger it will get easier for her to handle the mice.

2) You can gently put her back into her home as soon as the mouse is down into her stomach. If this worries you, you can put the shoe box into her home and let her crawl out when she is ready.

3) You should not handle her for 24-48 house after she feeds. If you handle her too soon, she could regurgitate the mouse. That is no fun for you or the snake. How I do it--I feed the snake in the evening. I play with him or her (I have both) before feeding. Then the next day I don’t handle the snake at all. The second day after feeding, I play with the snake late in the evening so that it’s been about 48 hours since it has eaten. So far, this has worked will. No regurges, and I only have to go through one day of snake withdrawal.

4) Corn snakes are nonvenemous, so it won’t get fangs. They will, however have a good set of regular teeth.

5) I would go ahead and raise the temp of your tank a few degrees. If it is too cool, she will not digest properly which can lead to regurgitation.

6) I don’t know about this one. Maybe SCSnakeman can help you here...

Now, a question for you...Do you have pictures? Can you post one? Oops, that is two questions, but I really enjoy looking at everybody’s snakes.



01/05/05  5:26pm
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SCSnakeman
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  Message To: CalKingOnyx   In reference to Message Id: 213981


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As usual CalKingOnyx did an excellent job of answering your questions.

I have a guide for size of prey to feed to corn snakes and other like sized snakes.

Newly hatched corns can eat pinkies with no problem. Feed it pinkies until it is about as big around as a dime or penny and then switch to fuzzies. Feed it fuzzies until it is about as big around as a nickle or quarter and then switch to small mice and increase the size of mice as the snake gets bigger. You will probably never have to feed a corn anything bigger than a large adult mouse. You will come to a point where your snake is not quite big enough for the next size prey and when that happens feed him two of the smaller prey items. You will only have to do this for three or four weeks.

As far as taking your snake out, I carry mine to classes I do on snakes. I carry them in a cloth bag inside a wooden box and I always leave them alone in their cages for two days after I take them out. This lets them have some time to get over the stress as I do let people handle them some but I do limit their exposure to around an hour. If you are going to take them out in winter it is, in my opinion, a good idea to warm the car up before putting them in it and likewise to cool it down in the summer which is when most of my classes are. So, I don’t see any real problems with carring your snake out as long as you do it in a careful manner and not every day.



01/05/05  5:52pm
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