Recent content by haydnrobinson

Hi all, I was wondering how strong corn snakes are?! It might seem like an odd question, but we just found Salvador on the landing (one flight of stairs down from this floor but luckily unharmed) and were terrified, how could she have gotten out? We inspected the cage and the sliding glass...

Hey everyone, Let me warn you now this will be a little in depth! Anyway, today Salvador shed, and it wasn't great (came off in 2 pieces) but it's fine now, we put her in a container with damp towels which she loved and the other piece came off. Everything is intact including the eye scales...

Hi everyone, I've looked in the forum and mostly found replies to questions like this saying scale rot but I'm pretty sure from pictures etc that's not the issue here as Salvador doesn't look the same. Anyway, we noticed 2 days ago that a scale on her head is sticking up. It's clear and she's a...

Is there any guideline on the weight your corn should be around certain ages? Based on what I've seen here Salvador looks small. She's approx 18g and is around 7 months old. I've seen people on here saying younger snakes are 30g approx. Worried! She was a problem eater and refused pinkies for a...

Hi everyone! I was wondering if people think that Salvador needs a bigger viv? Personally I'd like to put her in a bigger one for more exercise and room to move around. The pet shop lady said that she recommends putting her in a bigger one when she is the length of half way around the viv (ie...

As you may have read in another thread, we expected Salvador (6 month old normal) to be in blue at the moment as she's hiding a lot and her skin does look an odd dull colour (although only slightly). However we've been checking her every couple of days or so (just uncovering her from her bedding...

Looking for a little help with Salvador's genetics... she's a normal, but we think she must be het amel because she had one normal and one amel parent, and most of the babies were amel in her clutch. (There may be other possible hets as I think there were also a couple of ghosts, but I never saw...

We noticed today Salvador has done a poo in the night, which we expected since we fed him on Monday (it's now Friday). Looked in his viv though and it smells pretty bad, and is quite runny. (The smell reminds me of when I used to have hamsters and they peed in the sawdust, if that helps.) We'd...

Hey, we're probably being paranoid but our (nearly) 3 month old corn keeps doing this every so often... you can see the abdomen going in and out as if it's breathing, but it's not all the time so we thought it's probably not actually the breathing. It's usually been when we've handled the snake...

This is our snake about 1 and a half months ago when we first got him. But what is he?! We were told he's a normal but the lady who had him didn't even like touching snakes (?!) so not sure how well she inspected the snakes, or even what difference this makes? Sorry these pics are bad, we were...

A while ago we got a lot of help from this forum on feeding Salvador as he wouldn't eat for a long time. He's our juvenile corn and 1st snake, so we thought we'd give it a try for this... He's eaten 3 times now in a row (stopped refusing, yay!) but we're using the method where you brain a warm...

Salvador has a habit over the last couple of days of sitting on the colder side of his viv. There is a hide on each- a cave on the warm side and a toilet roll tube on the cold. The temps seem normal- there's a thermometer on each side and also a thermostat hooked up to the heat mat on the hot...

We're having trouble feeding our snake and were wondering, could it possibly be shedding? What is there to look out for, other than dull skin and cloudy eyes? Our snake doesn't have either of those but I've read online and even in this forum that some snakes barely change. Thing is he's already...

My girlfriend and I own a snake together but we're going on holiday on the 25th of July for one week. As you might know from my other posts the snake is difficult to feed and although the breeder fed it once over 2 weeks ago, we haven't been able to get him to eat yet :( Anyway, our family are...

I know that there's a lot of VERY similar threads to this but we're quite worried about the snake and wanted some individual advice for him. Anyway we bought the snake 2 weeks and 1 day ago from a breeder, he hatched June 09, we saw his mum and dad and brothers and sisters and they were all...