New baby corn!

[fiona]

Hi everybody, it's ages since I posted.

I am now a first time owner of a snake. I got an Anery Corn Snake on Sunday!

Yay!

I am already learning loads, to do with temperatures etc. I have a thermostat and a digital thermometer on order for precision. I am using a dial one in the meantime at the base of hot end. I am interested in observing my other dial one I placed high up to measure the ambient temp.

My snake is about 5 weeks old, has shed once and ate 3 times prior to my purchase. Thursdays were feeding days, I bought him/her on Sunday.

Tomorrow being Thursday, is he ready and OK to feed? It will have been a week since he ate, but not a full week living in his new home.

I know they are supposed to be active and alert to feed. However that only seems to be when we are in bed LOL!

Or when you lift a hide to see where your snake is, and the snake slithers off, is that classed as alert enough?

I also have the issue of hides. I bought the snake starter kit, which surprisingly didn't have everything you need. It had one log hide, which I had to place in the middle straddling warm to cool and some of each end in both.

The next day I got a cave hide for the hot end, and put the log in the cooler end. I got two fake plants that stick on with suction cup. The plants are appreciated, and bless him he passed faeces on a leaf, to my surprise.

I got worried that cos of his/her size he preferred the log hide. So I am waiting to the end of the toilet roll and gonna put a piece in the cave hide to make it more enclosed. Then there will be defo one in the hot and one in the cold. At the moment it's back straddling the middle again so he could use it as a tunnel to get to the warm hide.

I have to say he seems to prefer the middle ground above the boundary edge of the heat mat so to speak.

Time and time again I read about 2 hides one at each end, but in this case it wasn't as easy, hence my trial and error and moving it about you see. Perhaps I need 2 idential log ones?

Does anybody have a really young corn snake? How are you finding yours at this point?

He is very hidden the past couple of evenings. Only tonight when we turned off the light in the lounge to go upstairs, he became active because the coast is clear so to speak. Hence why I have stayed up, because I wanted to have a peek to see if he's about lol.

Thanks for reading my post. I have also made a couple of other comments/replies tonight. I am going to sleep now night night!

Fiona.

[Wh00h0069]

Congrats on your new corn! If the snake does not seem stressed out, then I would say it would be fine to feed him. Waiting one full week is not a rule, just a guideline. If you think that he is still a little stressed becasue of the move, then I would say wait.

Hope this helps.

[fiona]

Hi!

Thanks for that, I see where you are coming from. I have noticed a change in fact, far less jumpy when I open the lid and so on.

I have to say in behaviour terms he/she prefers to hide than beingin the open. Only goes in the open for a reason to get fresh air from the mesh at the lid, faeces (yesterday) or drink. I don't know if you would class that as stressed, or natural behaviour. After all such a tiny being would be vulnerable to predation in the wild.

Any other views would be welcome. Thanks again.

Fiona

[fiona]

Hello again!

Just an update, my little snake has been more active the past couple of days, and has taken well to the fake greenery. He is also using the cave hide (to my surprise because I thought he preferred the log hide).

Fiona.