Mr. Danger Noodle - progression thread

I never did end up starting a progression thread for my first snake (or the others honestly), so I'm a bit late getting it started.

Mr. Danger Noodle (nickname Noodle) was my first snake, I got him back in August 2017. He's an Abbott's Okeetee corn snake that I got from a local expo.

I went a bit against the usual recommendations for caging size for a hatchling, but since I never had any issues with it, I didn't have much incentive to change it up. I started my 6 gram baby in a 37 qt sterilite 6 latch gasket tub with heat mat.
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I'm going to just dump stats and photos for the first several posts to play catch up.

So, weighed in at 6 grams in August 2017.
Day we brought him home:
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First feeding, I didn't think his location through and he dragged it right into the water and proceeded to eat it underwater:
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Tiny Noodle head (failed to get my target tongue flicker shot):
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He has always been fascinated by phone cameras:
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The only time he has seriously tried to bite rather than the 2 or 3 bluffs at fingers coming too much from the front. Turns out he had gone blue and disapproved of me wanting to handle before I had noticed it, so fierce!
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Corns are less hidey than beeps, looks like he has/had plenty of things to hide in, as well as the aspen, if he felt threatened.

Almost all our snakes do the same thing to phone cameras. Makes it hard to get pictures! :)


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Cute little noodle!

Nice looking critter and enclosure. Is that your thermostat probe inside the tub? I used to put mine there but the snakes kept moving them.

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The only time he has seriously tried to bite rather than the 2 or 3 bluffs at fingers coming too much from the front. Turns out he had gone blue and disapproved of me wanting to handle before I had noticed it, so fierce!
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Way to stand up for yourself tiny noodle! Be your own advocate!

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Way to stand up for yourself tiny noodle! Be your own advocate!

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He did a good job letting me know about it. As soon as I realized he was blue, I took the picture and put the hide back down over him to leave him be. It was too adorable not to snap a quick picture though.

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Some shots from a bit later. I can't tell on mobile when these were, but I think October/November time.

He crawled up a jacket sleeve and curled up, so when I slid him out, I had a tiny snake pile. He sat like that for a good minute or two, even though I had put my hand to the floor of the cage to let him go back to a hide
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Table exploring with a small corn snake... He promptly slithered into the nearest cords on the table to make himself hard to grab. (Don't worry, it was off and not even plugged it)
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After his first several meals, which were all enthusiastically taken but not really constricted at all, he started doing this and wrapping all of him around his food every time.
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Gave him a "moist" hide during a shed, but he kept using it even after it dried out and he wasn't shedding. Just cut hole in the lid and put in eco earth. It was like taking him out and putting him back into a super small enclosure.
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Him in his favorite hide Was originally moist for a shed early on, but I left it in once it dried out since he liked it so much. His usual bedding is asked, so he enjoyed digging in the eco earth
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Took a few glamour shots with an extra stick I had
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He's an extremely enthusiastic feeder. Even luke warm rodents have gotten this reaction. He was eating double pinkies for a bit and he would do it for the 1st and 2nd. "All scales on deck", as they say.
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Just a few pics
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After I moved him from his latching bin to a PVC for visibility once I was confident he couldn't get out between the glass panes, I walked in on him doing this. He had previously gone "missing" by hiding on the light fixture when I didn't realize there was a gap above it. I think he was eyeing it again. Or he was practicing for geometry. "And this, this is a 90 degree angle."
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Nice looking critter and enclosure. Is that your thermostat probe inside the tub? I used to put mine there but the snakes kept moving them.

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Sorry, completely missed this question!
It was not a thermostat probe, just a probe for a thermometer. I think that cable might have been the hygrometer probe.

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Boy has he grown... I completely forgot about the thread here for a bit, so update time!

He's been eating hoppers and is due to upgrade soon according to even a very modest adaptation of the Munson charts. Weighed in at 115 grams the other day and 2.5 feet long.

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Meal from yesterday:
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Looking great and growing like a weed! :snake:

Great pics ,I love them when they just pop there head out the substrate, growing nicely

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Great pics ,I love them when they just pop there head out the substrate, growing nicely

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That was a double-take picture. I had rearranged things and took a full cage shot. When I looked at it closer, I spotted his head, so I took another right after up close.

Play spot the noodle:
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He's in front of the water bowl...:) I love LOVE his coloration. I never tire of corn snakes, they're just fun & easy pets. Though in that early photo, for
a moment I thought it was a "fierce snake"...:rofl:

They have so much personality too: 4 of my 5 corn snakes came from one guy (it was supposed to be 3, & he tossed in an extra
one!) about 9 years ago. I'd raised quite a few corns before, but all of his were fussy about feeding unless they were in my hand!??
Very strange but awfully cute, I guess they felt safer that way? Maybe he had done that before they came to me, but he never said?

That's super strange, but definitely something I'll keep in mind if I ever wind up with a fussy eater. My only fussy eater was a ball python who wouldn't take frozen.. but he's now 3 for 3 meals frozen in a row, so I think that's a thing of the past.

He only did the strike pose during that first shed with us, back when he weighed a grand 8 grams. His subsequent shed we lifted his hide and he didn't react, but we were looking for the eyes that time and didn't reach toward him like the first.

Now that he's bigger, the only difference in shed or not is he rarely is above the substrate and he flinches away if you move your hand too close or too quickly near his face. No striking or fleeing after, so I guess he realizes it was only me after. I usually only have him out the once per shed to unbury him, put in his moist hide and show him the entrance. He loves it, but if I leave him alone he may not notice it until he finishes shedding it he is buried and has already started going blue.

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