Recent content by JKD1

For the past month, our corn Dexter (approx 18 months, 32 inches, sex not tested but we refer to it as he) has become unbelievably angry and hostile. He will not let us take him out of his hide and once removed for feeding he becomes agitated and poses to strike. Tonight, while feeding him (he's...

For the first time ever, we had trouble feeding Dex. He didn't want to go into his feeding box, and when anyone tried to unwrap him from Jon's arm he took a nip at them. He's sitting tightly on Jon's wrist, he won't move and is breathing heavily. He's not shedding, his last shed was 3 weeks ago...

It seems he does something new each week, tonight while we were handling Dexterhe started rubbing his head against our hands and clothes, he rubbed qute hard, so much so that his head flattened and his jaw kind of flared out. Is he itchy? I should mention he shed on Saturday, fairly good shed...

So Dexter just shed this morning, most of it came off in one piece but there was one clump along the middle that I found lying detached from the rest, I'm not sure if this bit got ripped off of the side while he was wriggling out or if it didn't come off right away. Either way by the time I...

We moved Dexter up to fuzzies a month ago, while he was on pinkies he was fairly casual about it, just chomp and gulp. When we moved him up he started to leap at them and wrap around them and squeeze! The force of the squeeze moves him around the feeding box, is this normal? Are we under feeding...

So, we had trouble keeping Dex's moisture level in his tank, so we came up with the solution of a wet towel covering part of the top grate. This worked well for a while, but over winter and with the furnace running the towel dries out when we're sleeping or at school. So we decided to put in...

It started when my boyfriend jiggled his keys in the office where we keep Dexter, we noticed that he perked up and looked out at him. He's taken to sitting on top of a tree decoration we put in there and he stretched out of there until his nose was touching the glass while Jon jingled his keys...

We're trying to feed our corn his first fuzzy but he doesn't quite seem to know what to do... First he was afraid of it. Then he took a bite on the side and couldn't work his way around to an end. How can we help him figure this out?

Hi, I was advised by some other people on the forum to post in this section with questions regarding my 9(ish) month corn snake, Dexter. He (never confirmed his sex, but the guy at the store thinks it's a he) is an amelanistic snake my partner and I got from a pet store 3 months ago. In that...

Hi there, I'm new to the forum and I had a question about my 9(ish) month corn baby, Dexter. He currently eats two thawed pinkies (we thaw them in hot water until they are warm). We've had Dex for about 3 months now and he's been on that amount since we picked him up. He's never had any trouble...