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Joey was constipated about a month ago. She normally poops within 5 days of a feeding. She went for almost a month without a poop. I thought maybe it was because she didn't get her usual sized mice for 3 feedings - the store where we buy only had little ones. We stopped feeding her and...

A little Background: I discovered that Joey was a girl in July 2018. She was behaving strangely and refusing to feed. A visit to the vet revealed that she had intestinal parasites and that she was a girl! A few days after that she laid a clutch of eggs. At the time, we had had her for over 6...

We are moving from the US to Germany. Can anyone please help with how to go about shipping our baby? I've been searching and making phone calls for weeks. American Airlines will ship, but the contact person that I dealt with today says that they don't know if Germany will accept a snake at...

I found an old post (2010) about cleaning and disinfecting wooden hides. People suggested soaking in vinegar and water, but they didn't say for how long. Others suggested baking them in the oven at about 230 deg F, but again, they didn't say for how long. Can anyone please help? Or offer any...

We moved from Florida to California about a month ago. Joey seemed to handle the move fairly well. He is eating and defecating well, but there have been some significant changes in his behavior and I'm worried. We lived on the West Coast of Florida - sea level and now we're north of LA in the...

This is probably a really stupid question, but I have to ask: We switched from carpet to aspen about a month ago. Any suggestions on how to find Joey's poop in the aspen? It was easy to see and wipe up the piles on the carpet, but with the aspen, I don't even smell his poop much less see it.

Okay, so from what I've been reading in this forum, I am NOT doing a good job with temperature control. I don't have a proper thermometer and I don't have a thermostat. Please help me to understand exactly what I need to buy when I go out the pet supply store today. What is the difference...

So, I just switched to aspen from the green carpet. How do I keep the decorations (trees, climbing branches, etc) from sliding around?

Hello Everyone! My husband Thomas bought, our beautiful Corn in April 2012. He was already a foot in length. We named him after our beloved friend, Joey, who loved all kinds of reptiles, snakes in particular. Joey left us in February 2010.

Hi. I'm new to snake ownership and new to this forum. Our young Corn Snake's side belly scales are flaking off. This happened all of a sudden. I fed him on Saturday and put a clean carpet in the cage. Is it possible that this is happening because I didn't rinse out the carpet well...