Mr. Danger Noodle - progression thread

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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.


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:


First feeding, I didn't think his location through and he dragged it right into the water and proceeded to eat it underwater:


Tiny Noodle head (failed to get my target tongue flicker shot):


He has always been fascinated by phone cameras:


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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[Prognathodon]

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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[67temp]

Cute little noodle!

[EL-Ziggy]

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.

[Kcl]

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!

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


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)


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.


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


Took a few glamour shots with an extra stick I had


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.


Just a few pics



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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[pretends2bnormal]

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.

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.







Meal from yesterday:


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