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First Corn Experience
 
 
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Old 11-08-2017, 05:29 AM   #1
alinech20
First Corn Experience

Hello there,

I am sorry for the long post I am about to write, but I want to share with you my entire experience with my first corn so far. To try and keep this post as short as I can I will skip the first part of the story on how I decided to get a pet snake.

So, I got my first corn on Sep 9th. It's a lovely little female corn named Nyx! She was born on Jul 4th, so that makes her about 4 month old.

The guy I got her from last fed her between 1st and 10th of Aug so I was worried because I knew that baby corns should eat every 5-7 days. Apart from that, she looked pretty skinny. So, I blindly ignored pieces of advice that said you should leave the snake a couple of days to a week to get used to the new home and I fed her the day I got her, being aware that she may refuse. Luckily, she "attacked" that pinky like a real predator and I really enjoyed seeing a snake feed for the first time.

Nyx is a bit shy and hides a lot, but she is really used to me handling her and it takes her about 5 seconds to completely calm down after I pick her up. I usually handle her every day for about 15 to 30 minutes (I don't handle her for 36-48 hrs after feeding).

Unfortunately, as it is my first snake and I am still learning about caring for them, I did not see that she did not completely shed before I got her and she had a bit left on her tail. Her first shed after I got her made it obvious that something it is not ok with her tail tip, as another layer got stuck on the exact same portion of the tail. I gently helped her (following advice I found on this forum) and it went great, but a sign of the constricted tail and blood flow was and still is visible. At her next shed (on Nov 4th) the same thing happened again, but this time, after I helped her shed that little bit, I saw that it has a little wound where the previous mark was and I really panicked.

I got her to a vet that was recommended to me by six vet clinics and two of my friends that is specialized in exotic pets (he used to treat all the animals from the circus including pantheres, owls, hawks, snakes of all kinds and so on). At the moment I am using a Vitamin A solution to keep her tail tip moist and hydrated at all the time and, although the tissue looked almost dead to the vet, now it seems to get better. She also has a very little bump (it cannot be seen easily) on her back, and I will take her to an X-ray scan so that the vet will clearly see what is happening to her tail and her back.

He said that (and this maybe useful to other snake keepers, as I did not see this anywhere else) it might be a pulmonary abscess as it is pretty common in snakes, but that I should not worry about too much. From what I've read, it could also be caused by incubation conditions or by not being fed enough after she was born. But I will wait until the next weekend when we'll go to the vet again.

I weighed her this morning, before I left for work and she weighs about 11g which I think is not enough for her age, but I will keep track of her weight and see whether it is ok or not. Her first shed after I got her (Sep 29th) measured about 28-30cm and the last one (Nov 4th) about 38cm. So that means a 10cm growth in one month, which I do not know if it is ok or not, but what I can say is that I could clearly see her gaining weight and getting longer after I got her and between the two sheds.

The picture where I'm not holding her, was took 4 days after I got her, the other three pics were made yesterday.

Thank you for taking the time to read my first post!
 
 

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