Need help...new to corns..just got a rescue in a basement

Hello,
I just got a new snake that I have been told is an Anery A Cornsnake. It was hiding in a basement we cleaned out and we love boids...so we decided to take a Colubrid and try it out. It is a female from what the Cornsnake Handbook says.

A FEW Qs:

1) Are Corns hard to feed or will it eat as easy as my boa?
2) It is about as big around as a nickel and 3 or 4 ft long. Are fuzzy rats okay?--f/t obviously
3) Is 80-82F an okay temp?

4) What about humidity?
5) Is once every 7 days appropriate for feeding?
6) Do they go thru blue phase when ready to shed or is it irridesence or what that tells you shed is immenent? She is irridescent but I don't know if that is natural or a sign of shed.

7) Do they require humid hides?
8)When she pees will it be a chalky, white substance like a boid and will the poo be the same as a boid?


Thanks,
Lyndsay

Use the search function in this forum (husbandry) and you'll find many existing threads that will answer 99% of your questions. Instead of waiting around for replies to a single thread, you'll have dozens of threads to choose from right now.

Cool rescue. Good luck.

A snake the size of yours should be able to take an adult mouse of appropriate size. How cool is that to find an adult sized snake like that!! They usually take f/t quite readily, although you'll probably have to wait at least a few days to give it time to get used to it's new home. The only way to really know the sex is to probe it. Tail size is notoriously unreliable. If I had used the tail, I still would have believed my male was a female

Thanks Guys/Girls

Thanks for the replies. I REALLY appreciate it. Well he/she is settling in and very skinny apparently, but it's moving around exploring it's cage although it's just a starter tank until January.

Lyndsay