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hey Anonymous
First time poster, long time lurker here.

Getting an aztec corn snake today, along with it's cage and bedding. the snake is about a month or two old.

This is my first snake. Any tips, words of advice, or warnings? I don't want this thing to die.

Pic looks similar, but irl snake has darker markings.
>> Anonymous
get rid of it! ITS EVIL!!
>> Anonymous
>>308916
k, anything else?
>> Anonymous
GET RID OF IT! its evil!!
>> Anonymous
haha! geez /an/. you're almost as useless as /b/.
>> Anonymous
Looks like a dick. Now, I know why some people like snakes.
>> Anonymous
Get a good book... usually before you should do that before you get a snake.
But you have to try hard to kill a cornsnake, just make sure the cage has a warm and a cooler spot, don't keep the snake too moist and offer some hides and branches.
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
Nice looking snake. I'd get a heat pad and put it on the SIDE of the tank. That way there is a nice variation of heat from one end of the tank to the other. Make sure the lid is very secure! Don't handle the food then stick your hand in the tank. Always wash your hands after handling the food or even the container the food comes in. The snake can smell it on your hand and will assume your hand is food. Also, make sure the food you feed the snake isn't much larger than the largest part of the snake..diameter-wise.
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
>>308938
Oh yea, and this is also true. It's always a good idea to read and learn about an animal BEFORE buying it! Luckily, corn snakes are very easy to keep and don't require specific humidity or temp requirements.

The only humidity I provide for any corn snake is the water bowl.
>> Anonymous
>>308964
>>308962

Good addition as well. I only use side-mounted heattapes in my terrariums, works fine.
As for the rodent-scent: don't tell that, it's something everyone has to learn by himself.
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
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>>308969
haha Yea, I guess. People gave me a heads up on that part before I bought my first snake though.
>> Anonymous
>>308973
Always an interesting experience... I mean, I knew it already of sorts, but I made the mistake nonehteless. Nice bite by a 4 ft boa, didn't hurt that much, but a tooth got stuck and I couldn't get it out.
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>>308979
That sucks..so far I've only had one snake bite me and it was a baby corn snake, so it doesn't really count.

It was this one..my first snake. It would bite me just about every single time I took it out of it's tank. Sometimes it would even rattle it's tail.
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>>308983
No problem, the tooth seems to be out.
I got nailed quite a few times, my snakes are not handled often and tend to be a bit more defensive. I started to use a hook (or 2 for the bigger ones) 2 years ago and now I don't get bitten anymore, except by my CB '07 spotted python, but her teeth are to small to penetrate my skin.

Pic's related it's my adult spotted python basking.
>> Anonymous
Give it about a week to settle in after buying it and getting it home.

Heat mat should cover about 1/3 of the enclosure.

Doesn't really have humidity needs as a baby but as they get older, some start to struggle more with shedding unless you live in a naturally humid area then you might get away with not having to do anything.

Make sure the mouse/mice you feed are properly thawed, you wouldn't want to risk making it sick.

Give it a few places to hide.

Try to keep it in a room that doesn't have much noise, i.e not the room you and your homies like to play guitar hero 3 in on full volume.

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>> Anonymous
>>309243
Spot clean any time you see poo/pee.

Full clean every 4-6 weeks depending on how messy it gets.

Doesn't need feeding often, I can't tell you how often to feed it though because it depends on the size/age of the snake you buy.

Leave alone for 48 hours after feeding.

Fresh water every day is about the most actual care you have to give it, they're really easy to take care of, I love my snake. £3.50 on food (yes, britfag here) lasts me 5 weeks.

Corns are generally very tolerant, if you want to decrease the chances of it being tame when its older, handle it often as a baby, they become more docile/slow with age so you shouldn't have any worries, you may want to leave it alone during 'shed mode' but thats up to you, some people's snakes get pissy, some don't, I just don't bother mine either way.

About shed mode, its eyes will go cloudy/blue at some point, then they will clear up after a few days, this is the tell tale sign that its about to shed, unless your snakes colours also dull, my snake's colours don't dull from what I can see.
After its eyes clear up, it should shed its skin over the next 3 days or so.

Corns shed about every 4-8 weeks as youngsters, this slows down as they age until eventually it will probably shed like twice a year or something.

This is about all I can remember at 3am, sorry for the long post, hope you find something useful from it.
>> Anonymous
not OP
isn't it a good idea to feed snakes in a separate container from their enclosure? i can see how that would become infeasible for larger ones tho'
>> Anonymous
>>309250
Its mostly due to the risk of ingesting substrate, if you put the mice on a plate then that's not likely to happen.
Some people believe that if you feed the snake in its faun/terr/vivarium that it will associate its own living space with food and be prone to bite whenever you go to it, thinking that its food time.
I don't know whether or not there's truth to that, I just feed mine separately because it's not a bother.
As for bigger snakes, you can do anything really, some plastic storage box with a lid, drill some air holes in, file off any sharp feeling edges et voila, a $2 restaurant.
>> Anonymous
>>309250

There's always bathtubs, or large buckets for mixing concrete.

>>309262

I don't think that snakes get snappier when they are fed in their enc., they DO get snappier when they're hungry anyways. And getting a hungry carpet out of its enclosure while the room's already filled with tasty rat-scent-molecules is way more difficult than just putting the food in the cage. If you use good substrate (my personal tip: simple potting soil) there should arise no problem when your snake gets the occasional load of bedding with its food.
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