New to forum and to snakes

welcome! looks like a heck of a collection you've established there. I think you will find snakes to be an extremely rewarding venture! :)

Well, I hate to keep posting in the welcome thread but oh well. The Corn is in a 10 gallon for now since he's so small with aspen substrate. He has a shallow water dish and a heatrock (with cord cut off) The lid is a lockable lid (also has weight on it. He has a basking lamp for heat.

The BP is in a 20Long with just paper towel for substrate and a hidey box (completely covered) and a soaking dish. He has a large rock under the heat light. I have UVB for both.

I have a friend that has probably 100+ snakes and he wants to trade me a Corn for the BP. My daughter isn't too thrilled with the BP like she thought she would be..he's so BIG! She loves how small the Corn is and how easily she can handle him so we may be trading...not sure yet.

So, pick away at the husbandry...that's what I am here for. I will also post my husbandry in a seperate post in the correct forum.

OK, I would definitly get rid of the heat rock, they are known for burning snakes.

And UVB isnt really needed, snakes are nocturnal.

Oh and the bp will get bigger so if you dont like how big he is now.............then i would get rid of it (as horrible as that sounds)

The heat rock can not burn the snake....the cord is CUT OFF. I was given 6 heat rocks so I cut the cords off of them and use them for basking areas...the look nice.

I agree about the size thing. My sis has 3 grown BP's and one juvi. I would prefer the Corn but my daughter has to make that decision.

Ohh ok i must have not seen the part where you said the cords were cut, ok that seems fine.

Do you have an undertank heater ?? those a great for belly heat and digesting meals.I got mine at wal-mart.

Yes. I have several of those. They are sticky on one side that attach to the underside of the tank. (ZooMed) I have about 5 different sizes. I need to drag them out and see which one would work best.
I hadn't even thought about those.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the cornsnake grow to be almost the same length as a BP? BPs are much thicker snakes though...

Yeah your right, corn snakes definitly get as long .............but not as thick.

An adult corn snake will prolly take large adult mice or small rats when adults, but ball pythons will eventually eat large rats, some people are un comfortable with that.

Yeah, I didn't consider that.. but also a 32 inch BP for a cornsnake doesn't sound like a great deal... well, I guess it depends on the size of the cornsnake but I'm assuming it'd be a baby because of it's size.

I know how big they get. I don't have a problem with feeding the rats and such. I just don't want to have a snake that my daughter will be uneasy with.

I bought this BP at the Reptile Expo on Saturday and am almost certain it's WC. I am VERY uncomfortable with a WC snake. (I feel like I am a backstabber after steady preaching against WC animals over the past years) but with him being WC I know him eating and his presonality are both quite "iffy".

Trading him for a CB, very tame, held a lot Corn, I think is a good decision at this point, especially with first time snake owners.

But, we will see.