feeding questions

[Prognathodon]

Our three adult corns, in the 450 - 600 gram range, get a medium mouse once a week, with the occasional day-old rabbit kit instead of a mouse, and seem to be doing well on them. Their weights are slowly increasing, in line with growing their whole life, but they don’t seem to be getting fat. They typically shed every 60 days or so.

I get most of my rats and mice from Big Cheese, and going by their size/weight ranges, a rat pup is about the same as a medium adult mouse, and a weaned rat is about the same as a jumbo mouse. So if he’s been eating two large mice at a time, one weaned rat is probably about the same, or a bit less food.

I tend to switch from mice to rats once the snakes “outgrow” medium mice, as I figure jumbo mice (the next size up) are likely to be more fatty, and weaned rats should be fairly well-developed in terms of skeletal structure, etc. I originally got the rabbit kits to give my carpet pythons some variety, and then realized they were probably natural prey for corn snakes. The two we had at the time were on a fast, but took their first kits with enthusiasm (and proceeded to resume regular feeding), as did Aurora the first time I offered her a kit. I get the kits at Scott Smith’s, from Rat Pack Feeders (west side of the room, usually near the door in the west wall).


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