Help Identify the Morph

So here are some recent pictures of my little petsmart rescue. I'm not sure what morph he is, so a little help would be greatly appreciated :).

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...nsX/Snake1.png

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...nsX/Snake2.png

Regards,
Josh

I believe that is an amelantistic, but the corn experts should arrive soon to give their opinion.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

I believe that is an amelantistic, but the corn experts should arrive soon to give their opinion.

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I agree. in shed too it seems!

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Originally Posted by monty's dad

I agree. in shed too it seems!

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+1....you can see the eyes are a tad milky. Very nice corn!

I noticed that he looked close to a shed as well. He's coming up on almost a year of age...and according to his chart that I recieved from Petsmart, the last time he shed was the end of November. How often does a snake around this age usually shed? I suspect that he probably shed more recently than that, and they just forgot to mark it on the chart. But, it was something I noticed, so I thought I'd ask.

Regards,
Josh

My corns don't shed all that often. Zim's (snow corn) last shed was on 12/20. It could just mean that while in Petsmart's care they were only feeding him a "maintenance meal" so he wasn't gaining much size and therefore, wouldn't need to shed that often.

Mine's an adult (at least two or three) and sheds roughly every month and a half to two months. I'm going to side with the folks saying that he was only fed a maintenance diet.

Due to wanting to keep up with things right from the start...what would be a good diet for a snake around this age. He's on fuzzies right now I'm told. It's been a couple years since I've had a snake...so I'm trying to refresh my memory on some things haha.

Looks like an amel in shed.

Feed him something that is about the same size as the biggest part of his girth, or even a little bigger, like 1.5x as big. If you can see a noticeable lump after it swallows its meal, but the lump is gone within roughly 24 hrs, that seems about right.

If you have a scale and like following a chat, you can use this feeding plan:
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50106

Its a amel :gj:

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Originally Posted by EsotericForest

Due to wanting to keep up with things right from the start...what would be a good diet for a snake around this age. He's on fuzzies right now I'm told. It's been a couple years since I've had a snake...so I'm trying to refresh my memory on some things haha.

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Yup, it's an amel. As for food sizes, feed something that is ~1.5x the width of the snake's widest part of its body. If its a little less that's OK, but try to avoid anything much bigger. Feed it this prey size once a week until you can no longer see a lump, then move up to the next prey size.

So if its on fuzzies now, feed it a fuzzy. If you see a noticeable lump then keep feeding fuzzies until you don't see a lump, then bump up to hoppers and repeat. Then small mice, etc. I stop at large/jumbo mice. Even if there's no lump an adult corn doesn't need more than a jumbo mouse.

Alright, thanks everybody for the advice...as well as confirming the morph. The day I picked him up, I met with a lady through craigslist to buy a few tanks off her for dirt cheap. She seemed to know what she was talking about, and she only had to glance at him before she said he was an Amel haha. But, I thought it wise to double check with everybody here. So thanks again :)

Regards,
Josh

Well I just weighed him, and he's exactly 70g...so according to that link to cornsnakes.com he should've graduated from fuzzies apparently.

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Originally Posted by EsotericForest

Well I just weighed him, and he's exactly 70g...so according to that link to cornsnakes.com he should've graduated from fuzzies apparently.

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Don't get too hung up on weights. The only time I pay attention to weights is with breeding females and snakes that aren't feeding normally.

Follow the guide I posted and you'll be golden. I'd start him with a fuzzy, and look at the lump or lack there of. If there isn't one or its barely noticeable, then move to hoppers.

I fed him a fuzzy the other day, and it was pretty difficult to see a lump after 20 minutes (The time I left him to feed).

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Originally Posted by EsotericForest

I fed him a fuzzy the other day, and it was pretty difficult to see a lump after 20 minutes (The time I left him to feed).

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Then feed him a hopper.

Not seeing any pictures anywhere :( Makes me sad :(