The first week

In my experience corns do quite like to climb.. more than the other colubrids I keep.

You might want to consider getting an under tank heater.. bulbs do dry out the air, and in the winter time this can become an issue. Just know that you must have a thermostat on the UTH or it will get too hot and burn your snake.

That's why I'm not using the heating pad just yet because I don't have the thermostat and won't be able to get one till next month most likely.

Well I'm considering getting the snake for my friend. I'll only have to hold it a month and then she will take it with her.

We are throwing around some names for my snow corn. Haven't decided on one yet. We've got some cool ones. Yuki, Mazzaroth, Orion, Maize, Naga, Kaa, and a few others I can't remember. If you want to shout out a few, I'll add them to the list.

well...if you cant get a real thermostat, an inline lamp dimmer will work you just have to be a little more careful. They only cost about 10 bucks best i remember. As far as names go, im sure there are probably some cool names from different cultures/civilizations for the Yettie that would be interesting. Actually (haha) it just now hit me i have a snow corn i havent named yet. I may use that idea too. I'll probably be back in touch with you in a day or two with a list of those names if i can find some.

Well I fed the snake on Sunday. He ate one f/t fuzzy. I had soaked the fuzzy in a bowl of warm water and waited until the belly was squishy and I didn't feel any cold coming from it. I then soaked it in some warm water to heat it up a bit and then dried it off and dangled it above the snake. The first time he didn't latch on and the second time he got it. He then proceded to eat it hindlegs first. Next feeding is on Sunday.

good to hear it ate. Kinda funny to watch them take it wrong end first isnt it:P

It was kind of funny. He sat there forever trying to figure out which end to eat first. I was rather amused. I'm not sure if I want to keep him on f/t. He doesn't seem to like it. At first, he didn't even pay attention to it. I had to run it under really really hot water before he'd even come near it. The petstore fed him live. While he did attack the fuzzy, it took him a really long time to actually start eating it. I think he was confuzed because it wasn't warm like a live fuzzy. (The fuzzy cooled off very quickly)

I've also noticed that my little corn likes to hide...all the time. He goes under the newspaper (doesn't even use the nice hides I got for him) and stays there. The temps in the tank are a little below normal because my grandmother keeps the house freezing most of the time. Cool side stays at around 70-72 while the warm side stays around 78. I'll be getting a higher watt bulb (going from a 50 to a 75) to boost up the heat. Using the 75 watt on another tank I had (used for a beardie) kept the warm side temperature at around 85-87. No other heat sources were needed.

If it had been eating live it may just take a while to get it used to the frozen. We have some rat snakes that were a little slow to start on frozen much the way you describe, now they often have latched on and started to swallow before i get the lid shut back. I havent got around to that name list yet, and this is finals week, so i probably wont get to it until next week.

Well, he's been named. His name is Zim. I might just keep him on live, but I'm not sure. We are going today to get my friend her candy cane corn snake. Its name is GIR. She will be feeding hers live. Here's a question. How do you keep fuzzies or pinkies alive at home?

You can't really keep pinkies/fuzzies alive without their mother.. I don't think you want to feed it every couple of hours from an eye dropper.. lol