Recent content by EsotericForest

I recently acquired a new corn snake, and I was wondering if I could have somebody identify what morph this is. :)

I'm curious as how everybody here acquired their first corn snake, and what got them into the hobby in the first place? Was it your first reptile? First snake? Or where you already in the hobby, and somehow got turned onto corn snakes? As for my story, I was volunteering at a zoo and was...

First of all, I will say that don't expect to be completely blown away. I have a bit of a modest budget at the moment, and since I'll be moving soon I don't really have the time to construct the background and such that I'd like to. I did create a humid hide though, which can be seen on the...

Where's the best place to buy a probe for sexing corn snakes? I do intend to find proper technique before I actually try this for myself, but thought I will need the tools on hand eventually anyway.

So I'm trying to work with some local clay that I intend to moisten and bake to make it hard packed for my leo vivarium. What I'm wondering is how long I should bake it in the over to kill anything harmful, and what temp? Regards, Josh

When I first came into the reptile keeping hobby, I came into it with leopard geckos and other types of lizards. From my observations, people who keep lizards and especially bearded dragons are much more into making fake rocks or naturalistic backgrounds carved out of polystyrene, covered in...

I personally feed pre-killed, and I know a lot of people do for safety reasons. That being said, I also know quite a few people who do in fact feed live. So I'm wondering out of curiosity, which group you fall into.

What books should I look into purchasing to expanding my corn snake book collection? Also if you want to throw in some suggestions to other excellent snake related books, you can post those too.

This is a picture I had taken years ago of me holding a corn snake that I worked with at the zoo in Oregon. He was my first experience holding a snake, and is a large reason as to how I got hooked. But, now I'm curious as to what kind of morph he was exactly.

I'm a member of Geckos Unlimited, and on there I had a lot of suggestions to use cypress mulch as a bedding for my pictus gecko. I was told that you could easily buy untreated cypress mulch at your local hardware store for a cheaper price, so I ended up getting some and it seems to work fine...

I notice many of you that have a large quantity of snakes use plastic containers to keep them in, and especially the young ones. What I'm wondering is primarily how you keep them heated to the correct temperature.

Due to the fact that there are people with far more experience here than I. I was interested in asking you a question to see what the different opinions are. In your opinion, what in corn snake care is most commonly overlooked by a new snake owner? What are the most common mistakes made by...

So my question is this...how long do frozen mice keep, before they're unsafe to feed your snake? I was looking into buying in a little more bulk to get a better price, however at this time I only have one snake to feed and didn't want them to spoil.

So here are a couple pictures of my new corn, Kiowa. He's a bit of a rescue since I went into Petsmart, and I saw that there was a corn snake for 75% off. I asked why, and it was apparently due to the fact that he's getting too big (He's been there since July, and is close to a year old now)...