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Beast corn?

Wyldrose

Wyldrose

Addicted to corns!
I got this big guy in a trade, him and a female anery for my Miami.
He is huge I thought he was a female due to his size, but probed him last night. He is just over 1000 grams. He is almost as thick as my year old boa constrictor. No hips, feels like pure muscle and is very strong.
Sorry for the in blue pics, I can update the add when he sheds

Thick!

With another adult male

With a $20 the day I got him


Now the fun part is if he is a beast corn I live in Alberta where black rats are illegal. I don't know what to do there, who to contact. I don't know if hybrids would be counted as illegal.
 
Jeeze, you should name him Big Red (or right now, Big Blue since he's in blue). That's awesome though! I wonder how that happened... or if it was genetic.
 
I babysat a large anery cornsnake, NOT a beast corn, for DesertAnimal one year. He was monstrous- 1000 grams. Just a fun, huge, gentle cornsnake.
 
wow!
he's huge!

looks very healthy though, do you know how old he is?

lol I got my male thinking I was being smart, (males stay smaller than females.. blah blah blah)
well I'm finding out now that males tend get bigger than females!!
aha, and my boys already excited my expectations lol he's just 15 months and already 245 grams at my last weight, about 3 and a half feet long... lol

needless to say I love my boy, but I should of done more research.. ;)
 
I'm trying to remember who or even the post, but I recall someone over on a herping forum having road cruised a Great Plains rat snake that tipped the scales around the 1200-1500 gram range. Thing was massive, even in photos.
 
There isn't really a lot of difference between the sexes. And a snake doesn't have to grow to be massive and fat if you don't pack it with as much food as it will take, which isn't especially healthy, anyway. I feed everyone over 550 grams one adult mouse every three weeks, and they are weighed, so I see that they are gaining about 5 grams per feeding. Very slow, but steady, growth. If you fed that same snake a mouse every week to ten days, which it would be more than happy for you to do, it would be a fat, flabby monster in no time. I keep them on every two weeks from about 250-550 grams. Except for breeding moms, etc.
 
Nanci said:
If you fed that same snake a mouse every week to ten days, which it would be more than happy for you to do, it would be a fat, flabby monster in no time.
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I can't find the pictures now, but I loaned out a pair of females to a local guy last year. I don't remember how long he had them, but it was just a few months. I couldn't BELIEVE how fat they got! He said he was feeding them a jumbo mouse every 7 days. I had been giving them a weanling every 10. I honestly didn't think they were the same snakes at first. Adults can get fat quickly.
 
good to know!

thanks nanci!

right he's getting one adult mouse every 7 days, but with him being right under you mark for every two week feedings, ill more then likley give him 2 weeks between meals after this next meal..

thanks again! :)
 
I was told he was 5 years old, my friend got 3 cornsnakes off someone who kept them all together. I am going to be feeding him one adult mouse every 2-3 weeks. He actually got loose in my minivan when bringing him home, had to take my dashboard apart to get him back(my fault for running into the store quick). He's stronger then duct tape lol!
I think he's going to be named Bubba. He's a monster and I love having him around, huge difference from my little hatchlings! I bet if he was a female he'd lay 30-40 eggs lol.
 
Actually, if you raise up a male and a female, giving them identical care and feed, and breed them, the female will generally be smaller than the male because she is putting some of her growth potential into egg production every year. That has to have an effect on the growth rate.

So I've always had males larger than females for that reason. Matter of fact, during breeding season, I would cut back the meals to the males to try to keep them a bit "edgy" during "the season".
 
Wyldrose said:
I was told he was 5 years old, my friend got 3 cornsnakes off someone who kept them all together. I am going to be feeding him one adult mouse every 2-3 weeks. He actually got loose in my minivan when bringing him home, had to take my dashboard apart to get him back(my fault for running into the store quick). He's stronger then duct tape lol!
I think he's going to be named Bubba. He's a monster and I love having him around, huge difference from my little hatchlings! I bet if he was a female he'd lay 30-40 eggs lol.
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That is CRAZY!

Also, hilariously, I have a manager at my job who is an ex-football star; 6'5", 275-300 lbs, nicknamed Bubba! ;) So needless to say I chuckled.
 
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