Hello, got a baby corn!

[BHReptiles]

It looks to be an anery. I have been keeping corns for many years. Regarding the feeding, they do not usually require live food. Most babies will start on a frozen / thawed day-old pinky mouse for their first meal. I serve my new babies a brained frozen / thawed day-old pinky inside a small lidded container that is 8-ounce size or smaller, which seems to help them focus. No tongs or tease feeding required. It's pretty different than how I feed ball pythons but usually works quite well for corns. Good luck!

Wendy knows her stuff! I've got a corn from her and they are the best eaters

It's terrible that they keep these animals and don't even know how to take care of them... Oh well it's just how SOME of pet stores are.Beautiful corn snake by the way. Well I would advise having a warm and a cool side. The cool side being 76-80 and the warm side being 84-87. DO NOT USE A HEAT MAT WITHOUT THE THERMOMETER. If you don't want to use a heat mat( like me) have a day bulb on one side of the tank and a night bulb on the other (Ex. For a 20 gallon use a 50 watt night and a 75 watt day). Corn snakes or at least all the ones I have seen love to burrow so make sure you have something they can burrow in like aspen or reptibark(what I use)NO SAND. Plenty of hides since he just a baby and scared of everything. Try to have a humidity box for when he sheds. This is a picture of what I have my 30 inch corn snake in. Hope this helps.

I hope you meant to say thermostat.

Anyway, since the ambient temp for you is 80-84, you don't need any additional heating. If you are using heating to achieve that, just make sure heat mats are on a thermostat and lamps are on a dimmer. I offer my corns a hot spot of about 85-86* because my ambient temps are in the 70s. I have some of my corns in a rack and they have belly heat and one is in a display tank and she has a heat lamp. Corns are pretty hardy.

Thanks! Because all my baby mice are too big for this little guy and I'm not expecting more for a few days to a week or so I went bought some frozen pinkies, he's had a good five days to kinda relax so I'm gonna try and feed him, should I just try in his cage first or go straight for the deli cup, what do y'all think?

I would put him in a deli cup at least for the first few feedings. After that, he should just take it from you off tongs. I feed off the Munson plan (you can google it) and I have healthy growing corns.