I'm not at all an old-timer, but I kept my first corn in 1995. These are the things that books and other reptile keepers told us were biblical truth back then, and are no longer the case:
1) reptile carpet is the best substrate
2) "Don't worry, you can just weigh down that screen lid and he'll be fine."
3) pre-killed is the best food
4) "They're not hungry after they shed."
(Some explanation on the last one: we were told that, so we only fed our adult corn a single pinky after he shed, after he'd skipped a meal while in blue. He wolfed it down, and escaped his cage that night to get his entree--my mom's prize red-factor singing canary. She made us take him back to the pet shop.)
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