Skinny Rescue Corn

[gaitedappy]

So my cousin's friend asked me to take his baby corn snake since he wasn't taking good care of it, so I did. From what I can tell is the biggest issue is the baby is really skinny, he still has muscle mass and is alert and curious, just hasn't eaten in a while. I don't know if this is because he wasn't offered food or if it's because of refusals, but I do know when he did eat it was only every other week. I've been told he was eating pre killed pinkies, when he was eating.

I got him home and set up yesterday, he weighed in at 27g. Just because it happened to be feeding day I offered a pinkie today that he looked and followed around for a bit but did not eat. I think it was a little big, so I'll try smaller next week and live if I need to,

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, since I'm a corn snake newly at best.




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[Sandi1961]

My first snake was a corn...compared to the balls he was a breeze to feed...I could literally leave 1-2 f/t in his enclosure and he would gobble them up at his leisure...try just leaving the pinkie in there for him.

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[distaff]

That doesn't look like a corn snake to me.
Pittuophis morph?

Try scenting with tuna? Honestly, I'm terrible at getting babies to eat. Good luck. Beautiful animal, but I don't think it is a corn.

[xcjumper]

I agree...not a corn. Looks like a Rat snake to me. Really pretty!! I would leave him alone for a week and let him de-stress and then try again.

[gaitedappy]

All I was told was albino corn lol I thought he looked off. Honestly I think this was a case of they got a pet they didn't know how to care for, possibly from petco.

I'll try the tuna thing next week then attempt live the following if that doesn't work. They didn't have any heat on him either, so he was a little sluggish at first.


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[distaff]

Pits seem to have coarser and more defined scales on the head. Also, there usually is that badass Drymarchion *eye brow* ridge over the eye, giving kind of a hawk like appearance. Pit patterns tend to form a chain link to my eye.

The closest snake I've seen to yours was advertised on Kingsnake.com several months ago. I found it astonishing - that same almost metallic *gold,* on a white ground, and pit defined chain-link pattern down the center back. I looked today, but couldn't find any similar.

That snake is very beautiful!

Care should basically be like a corn. I'd try the bare shoe box sized tub and paper towel substrate. That makes the pinky easy to find, and the only distraction.

[Spiritserpents]

Give him a week to settle in, and access to plenty of water because he's dehydrated in the photo provided. I'm thinking that this looks like an albino gopher snake and is definitely not a corn snake. After the week of being mostly left alone, offer him a large f/t pinky and try dunking the thawed pinky in boiling water for a few seconds so it turns white and rubbery, then immediately place it in with your new snake and leave him completely alone and in the dark for 24 hours. I've had excellent luck with boiled f/t pinks. Live is definitely also an option for this kiddo. Do not offer food more than every 3 days until he starts eating, at which point you should then feed every 5 days until he's no longer underweight. Then drop to every 7 days.

[xcjumper]

If that is a Pit, it's going to be a lot bigger than a corn, lol! I love it!

[gaitedappy]

Give him a week to settle in, and access to plenty of water because he's dehydrated in the photo provided. I'm thinking that this looks like an albino gopher snake and is definitely not a corn snake. After the week of being mostly left alone, offer him a large f/t pinky and try dunking the thawed pinky in boiling water for a few seconds so it turns white and rubbery, then immediately place it in with your new snake and leave him completely alone and in the dark for 24 hours. I've had excellent luck with boiled f/t pinks. Live is definitely also an option for this kiddo. Do not offer food more than every 3 days until he starts eating, at which point you should then feed every 5 days until he's no longer underweight. Then drop to every 7 days.

He's got a bowl that he's already found and sipped from. I'll try covering the sides of the enclosure when I feed next week. I only offered today because I happened to be picking up rodents for the ball pythons and boas. But so far he's fairly active and curious.


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[John1982]

Good job taking it in and congrats on the new pituophis! Looks like you scored a nice little albino annectens there. While it will get a good bit beefier than the average corn, they don't get much longer with most adults maxing out right around the 5 foot range.

I start most of my pits on f/t rat pinkies. Those that don't take the rats usually accept a f/t mouse fuzzy or hopper. In the rare occurrence of a hatchling not feeding on f/t straight out of the egg, an appropriately sized live mouse hasn't failed me yet.