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Corn Snake Question

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magneto417x

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I have an Oketee named Titan that I feed every seven days and was wondering how long it may take for Titan to reach adult size based on this feeding schedule. Currently Titan is between small and medium mice for feedings.

Thanks :)
 
I'd be interested in the answer as my reptile guy who sold me Cruella on Sunday had her on the very same schedule. So, I plan on keeping it to every seven days or so as well.

How long after a year, two years, etc? Girth wise?

Good post Magneto.
 
Sindrik8x said:
I'd be interested in the answer as my reptile guy who sold me Cruella on Sunday had her on the very same schedule. So, I plan on keeping it to every seven days or so as well.

How long after a year, two years, etc? Girth wise?

Good post Magneto.
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Thanks I'm very interested to see what we can find out :)
 
Snakes grow at different rates. Two years ago, I had a couple of clutches where I kept back a number of the babies. They were all on the same feeding schedule, & some grew really fast, some grew really slow.

There really is no way to know for sure.
Size of prey does influence growth rate. I have a Grey Banded Kingsnake that is smaller than she should be. She was fed every week, but the people who had her before more never bumped her up in prey size & she was still on hopper mice. I moved her up to the appropriate size (weanlings) & she is now moving up to adults.

Do you have a scale?
 
lol, once a week feedings are fine, but I can't exactly tell you how large or fast your snake will grow in a year or two.. I fed mine every 5 days as a hatchling, then 6 days on fuzzys, and he's now on once a week feeding with hoppers. and I can tell you that my boy has grown quite a bit! he was 15 grams when I got him on Nov and he's now just over 100 g and about 2 and a half feet long about the width of a highlighter at his thickest part.

what I CAN tell you is that your snakes should be about full adult size by 3 years of age.. and they usually Max out at about 2-3 inches girth wise, and males reach anywhere from 3.5 to 4.5 feet, and females are usually larger reaching about 4-5 feet in length.. 6 feet with any corn is pretty rare.

I hope this sorta gives you guys some sort of an idea..
 
nwheather said:
Snakes grow at different rates. Two years ago, I had a couple of clutches where I kept back a number of the babies. They were all on the same feeding schedule, & some grew really fast, some grew really slow.

There really is no way to know for sure.
Size of prey does influence growth rate. I have a Grey Banded Kingsnake that is smaller than she should be. She was fed every week, but the people who had her before more never bumped her up in prey size & she was still on hopper mice. I moved her up to the appropriate size (weanlings) & she is now moving up to adults.

Do you have a scale?
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I actually don't have a scale :-( But based on size I read you should feed snake something apprx 1.5x it's largest part which is why I currently feed small-medium mice. I'm almost certain place I bought him was underfeeding to control the growth of the snake will he was sold :-(
 
Justine66 said:
lol, once a week feedings are fine, but I can't exactly tell you how large or fast your snake will grow in a year or two.. I fed mine every 5 days as a hatchling, then 6 days on fuzzys, and he's now on once a week feeding with hoppers. and I can tell you that my boy has grown quite a bit! he was 15 grams when I got him on Nov and he's now just over 100 g and about 2 and a half feet long about the width of a highlighter at his thickest part.

what I CAN tell you is that your snakes should be about full adult size by 3 years of age.. and they usually Max out at about 2-3 inches girth wise, and males reach anywhere from 3.5 to 4.5 feet, and females are usually larger reaching about 4-5 feet in length.. 6 feet with any corn is pretty rare.

I hope this sorta gives you guys some sort of an idea..
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Thanks Justin :)
 
A scale is not necessary, but it helps, IMO.

You'd be surprise how many call it "maintenance feeding" when in reality they're too lazy or cheap to feed them on the regular basis that they should be.

Edit to add: Don't get me wrong, maintenance feeding can be just fine, but when you get an almost two year old baby that is only a couple grams bigger than one that is less than a year old, there's something wrong with that picture.
 
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