my new snake!

[I-Love-him]

just thought i'd post a few pics of my new beautiful snake. it is a 4 month old, black corn snake he's fantastic and very tame. i think he's gorgeous check out how small he is too, gonna grow a lot bigger though.

[Imagine]

oooh cool snakes.
too bad i hate snakes.

[gasoline]

He's adorable! I'd totally own a snake - if I didn't have a guniea pig. My worst fear would to find that Mr. Snake got out of his housing and gobbled up my little Kiwi.

[TrixAre4Joey]

ooh awesome! does he have a name? be sure to post a pic of him when he gets bigger

[MegaMadness]

Awesome. He's so small that it's cute. Haha.

[MadPoet]

I'm not a big snake person, but he's really cute!
Have you picked out a name for him yet?
Tell him I said hey!

[Power Cosmic]

The technical name for that colouration is anerythristic, due to the lack of red pigment. I have one too,just she's last year's hatchling, rather than this years.

Such a cute wee snake though ^_^.

[topov]

OOOOOO! beautiful!
I do love corn snakes, there just so cute and have a great shaped head (I have a bit of a thing for snake heads.)
all the best with him, hope he lives a wonderful hissy life with you

[Singing to the starlight]

I love snakes. My friend had one. But I'd never be able to deal with all the dead mousies ):

[DandiCupcake]

Aw your snake is so pretty! My friend has one just like that but it's just a tad bigger.

[I-Love-him]

Originally Posted by topov

OOOOOO! beautiful!
I do love corn snakes, there just so cute and have a great shaped head (I have a bit of a thing for snake heads.)
all the best with him, hope he lives a wonderful hissy life with you

aha oh my gosh! you are like my boyfriend,he loves a good snake head. he doesn't like 'weird' ones haha!

Originally Posted by NightOfNyx

I'm not a big snake person, but he's really cute!
Have you picked out a name for him yet?
Tell him I said hey!

thanks! and yh he's called Ripley got the idea from the charecter in the alien films

[topov]

Originally Posted by I-Love-him

aha oh my gosh! you are like my boyfriend,he loves a good snake head. he doesn't like 'weird' ones haha!

LOL... there's nothing like a good snake head!

[FeistyMidget]

Once, my older brothers had two snakes. One of them got loose, and still to this day has not been found. It was just a garden snake, but I was still scared. Every time I hear the house make a weird noise when I'm up and nobody else is in the wee hours of the morning, I'm afraid it's the snake, (gosh, I forget his/her name. Did he/she ever have one? I dunno. xD) coming back to haunt me.

ANYWAY, that's why I don't like snakes. But if I did, I would totally get one like yours. It's so cool looking!

[I-Love-him]

Originally Posted by Mx456LKred

Once, my older brothers had two snakes. One of them got loose, and still to this day has not been found. It was just a garden snake, but I was still scared. Every time I hear the house make a weird noise when I'm up and nobody else is in the wee hours of the morning, I'm afraid it's the snake, (gosh, I forget his/her name. Did he/she ever have one? I dunno. xD) coming back to haunt me.

ANYWAY, that's why I don't like snakes. But if I did, I would totally get one like yours. It's so cool looking!

haha this happened to me when i was younger.i had a milk snake,it kept escaping, the first time it escaped it jumped out of the vacuum when my dad went to hoover his room LOL. the second time it went missing, we gave up finding it and got another snake,it was a corn snake and it was really agressive!!! then we realised that the milk snake had squeezed up a hole in it's water dish and was hiding in there! so we took the corn snake back. and the last time it escaped we never found it it's probly died now though because it had nothing to live on, poor thing .

i love them, i'd rather a snake escape them a spider! lol. fair play though. aww thanks hehe he's having a bit of a issue lately though, he hasn't been to the toilet in like 3 days, i think he's suffering constipation but can snakes even suffer from this??? lol

[Power Cosmic]

Three days is completely normal, my corn doesn't normally go for 4-5 after her meal.
Also, that's quite worrying that you've had so many escapes. Can I see a pic of your setup for your snake? I might be able to help figure out where its escaping from, it can be from the most unlikely of places ^^;

Also, here's a site that has what's quite possibly the best corn snake care sheet on the web, it'll answer all the basics and a few things you might not have expected.

http://www.thecornsnake.co.uk/

[I-Love-him]

Originally Posted by Quintessence

Three days is completely normal, my corn doesn't normally go for 4-5 after her meal.
Also, that's quite worrying that you've had so many escapes. Can I see a pic of your setup for your snake? I might be able to help figure out where its escaping from, it can be from the most unlikely of places ^^;

Also, here's a site that has what's quite possibly the best corn snake care sheet on the web, it'll answer all the basics and a few things you might not have expected.

http://www.thecornsnake.co.uk/

he went to the toilet a few hours ago.
LOL na it isn't worrying.we have a different set up now.

[Broken one]

I love corns, I got 5 of 'em
A butter
A snow
A normal
umm Ameristic
and can't remember what the other one is.

[I-Love-him]

Originally Posted by Broken one

I love corns, I got 5 of 'em
A butter
A snow
A normal
umm Ameristic
and can't remember what the other one is.

COOL!!!
do you have any pictures??
ooh i have a question for you then... do you keep them all in one viv?? because my boyfriend wants a corn too, i'm wandering if it will be ok to keep two snakes in one vivarium??

[Power Cosmic]

co-habiting is one of those things that may or may not work out. If the snakes have been raised together, then it's generally okay, but its still risky. Also, it might cause both snakes uneeded stress. Snakes are solitary animals, they don't really need or want company. Also, then there's the issue of breeding. They will breed, whether the female is ready/old enough or not. In that area, experienced breeders have told me to follow to rule of three, make sure the snake is at least 3 feet long, 3 years old and a certain weight (PM me if you want to know the exact figure). But the male will try to breed with the female anyways and then making sure a too-young female can handle eggs and stuff, and then incubating said eggs and then caring for the hatchlings......
It's quite a commitment.

So as someone who's kept snakes for a while, I'd recommend keeping them in separate vivs.

[I-Love-him]

Originally Posted by Quintessence

co-habiting is one of those things that may or may not work out. If the snakes have been raised together, then it's generally okay, but its still risky. Also, it might cause both snakes uneeded stress. Snakes are solitary animals, they don't really need or want company. Also, then there's the issue of breeding. They will breed, whether the female is ready/old enough or not. In that area, experienced breeders have told me to follow to rule of three, make sure the snake is at least 3 feet long, 3 years old and a certain weight (PM me if you want to know the exact figure). But the male will try to breed with the female anyways and then making sure a too-young female can handle eggs and stuff, and then incubating said eggs and then caring for the hatchlings......
It's quite a commitment.

So as someone who's kept snakes for a while, I'd recommend keeping them in separate vivs.

great advice!! thanks.i think i'll stick to the one then hehe.i love this little snake,it's lovely hehe. what snakes do you have??

[Audacious]

I'm not a snake person just because I'm afraid they'll bite/eat me. I have put a boa constrictor around my neck before though and I've touched them and stuff. They just...scare me :P

[topov]

i think he's suffering constipation but can snakes even suffer from this??? lol

YUP! lol... all my baby's have at some point had a problem pooping... its really noticable when there backed up... there tail goes a little weird and you can see the blockage :/

Best thing to do is give snakey a luke warm bath, its never failed me yet!

[topov]

Originally Posted by Quintessence

co-habiting is one of those things that may or may not work out. If the snakes have been raised together, then it's generally okay, but its still risky. Also, it might cause both snakes uneeded stress. Snakes are solitary animals, they don't really need or want company. Also, then there's the issue of breeding. They will breed, whether the female is ready/old enough or not. In that area, experienced breeders have told me to follow to rule of three, make sure the snake is at least 3 feet long, 3 years old and a certain weight (PM me if you want to know the exact figure). But the male will try to breed with the female anyways and then making sure a too-young female can handle eggs and stuff, and then incubating said eggs and then caring for the hatchlings......
It's quite a commitment.

So as someone who's kept snakes for a while, I'd recommend keeping them in separate vivs.

I'd defiantly agree! I'm currently breeding snakes, and its one hell of a commitment, not something to have to deal with by accident.... Its much easier to have them seperated.

[Power Cosmic]

In answer to your question; I've only got an anery corn snake and a royal python at the moment, but I'm getting a milksnake soon ^^

[I-Love-him]

Originally Posted by Quintessence

In answer to your question; I've only got an anery corn snake and a royal python at the moment, but I'm getting a milksnake soon ^^

my very first snake was a milk snake. i've heard bad things about them but to be honest i think it's a load of rubbish, my milk was a lovely snake and to be fair the first corn snake i had was more agressive than the milk lol. put up some piccy's when you get it,i love milk snakes

[Power Cosmic]

Snakes of the genus Lampropeltis (means shiny shield, due to their scale patterns), or kingsnakes tend to be a bit more aggressive than corns. And wow, that must have been an unsual corn, all the ones I've ever seen are either really calm or panicky and scared of everything. Even mine tends to twitch in fright if I make any sudden movements and I've had her for ages.

[I-Love-him]

Originally Posted by Quintessence

Snakes of the genus Lampropeltis (means shiny shield, due to their scale patterns), or kingsnakes tend to be a bit more aggressive than corns. And wow, that must have been an unsual corn, all the ones I've ever seen are either really calm of panicky and scared of everything. Even mine tends to twitch in fright if I make any sudden movements and I've had her for ages.

yh my milk snake was lovely, i was only like 10 when i had it but it was so tame and calm. the corn snake was a horrible agressive thing! was nasty that snake was lol. the corn snake i have now is lovely, really calm and quiet.

[Emzy]

Snakes scare me although yours is kinda cute.

[honeycake]

Awesome you're snake is very pretty love the pattern on it

[Spontaneous Smile]

Aww, he's so pretty. I like snakes, but I'm not sure if I'd want to own one...maybe it's the fear of being bitten or contricted. Lol X) Not only that, but my Mom wouldn't let me get one.