Corn snake costs per year

I just did the math for how much it costs to have ONE pet corn for me every year. This just the ongoing costs, not stuff like a tank.

1) Mice. I buy from PetSmart, for me it's ABOUT $15 a month 15x12= $180 per year
2) bedding. I use paper towels, so it would be about $6 a year
3) bulbs for heat lamp $12 each, they last about 6 months so $24 a year.
Let's add random $10 for a new hide or something.

All together, $220

Not too bad. Is it the same give or take for you?

you've got the yearly electricity to run the heat as well which is probably only a few bucks per month. (maybe another 60 bucks yearly). In the event you need a vet, those expenses can be quite high. Anyone who has kept snakes for a long period of time eventually has a vet bill. For me, it's been 3 visits to the vet over the course of 40 years with 5 snakes. (They can get sick just like any animal.)

Yeah, I didn't think about that.

Okay, I'll play. Per month:

Average cost of f/t mouse (inc shipping) $1.08 x 5 = $5.40
Electricity for UTH estimated $5
Aspen substrate at $15 per 24 qts $2.50
Random $10

So that's $22.90 a month and $274.80 a year for me. A bargain at any price

Yeah, I think I am closer to that too. I forgot to factor in electricity and vet bills.

Karl_Mcknight said:

you've got the yearly electricity to run the heat as well which is probably only a few bucks per month. (maybe another 60 bucks yearly). In the event you need a vet, those expenses can be quite high. Anyone who has kept snakes for a long period of time eventually has a vet bill. For me, it's been 3 visits to the vet over the course of 40 years with 5 snakes. (They can get sick just like any animal.)

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In case you want to take your corn snake to the vet for a check up how much would you believe it would cost just for them to see the snake ? I understand every place may charge different prices but just the price range

Asher9 said:

I just did the math for how much it costs to have ONE pet corn for me every year. This just the ongoing costs, not stuff like a tank.

1) Mice. I buy from PetSmart, for me it's ABOUT $15 a month 15x12= $180 per year
2) bedding. I use paper towels, so it would be about $6 a year
3) bulbs for heat lamp $12 each, they last about 6 months so $24 a year.
Let's add random $10 for a new hide or something.

All together, $220

Not too bad. Is it the same give or take for you?

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I didn't figure vet bills in my monthly/annual budget either, but I'm aware of that responsibility and have savings for things like that. If need be, though I avoid debt, I would incur debt to provide vet care. At this point that's unlikely, but nothing in life is certain.

I think a vet visit in Scotland would probably cost me around £50-£100 for just a check up/diagnose and then probably quite a lot for treatment if anything was needed. I mean, it costs a lot for my dogs to go to the vet so I'm assuming snake prices are gonna be higher because there are a lot less herp vets around.
I think my annual costs will be probably be around the same as everyone elses


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I forgot to give my vet trip cost guess. Just for a basic trip, $100 to $200 US.

Here is my area, there is an exotic vet right across the street from the zoo. They treat a lot of the zoo animals and are very well informed and trained with reptiles as well. While all vets I assume have some training, I would guess many of them never even see a snake as most folks have dogs and cats. It's good to know that there at least are some vets that are specific to snakes. Of course they tend to charge a bit higher as well.

I had a female boa 20 years ago with a respiratory infection. She required 2 vet visits and 2 shots. And best I can recall each treatment was 70 bucks. And this was 20 years ago.

I've not had to carry a snake to a vet lately, but if I do, I will go back to the same place.

We have several herp vets in the area. None are really close. I've scoped them out online and I know which ones I would use. In the US this is a good place to start:

http://arav.org/about-us/. -- Association of Reptile and Amphibian Veternarians

Sorry to go a little OT here, but having an idea of where to go ahead of time is important. It is as important as having some money set aside for the eventual need of a vet. You can tell that I have already given this subject a bit of thought.

yes!!! Most definitely

The place I went to, for just a check up was $63, and he was really informative

Last year we had roughly 39 resident snakes and around 80ish, give or take some, hatchling snakes from our breeding?
Plus 4 box turtles, 7 resident geckos and some offspring from them. We track our reptile related costs but not all of it is calculated based only on the snakes, so some of these expenses include all the reptiles.

Our food bill for 2015 was: $1,166.28
Our medical, only one sick snake, was: $62.02
The electricity for the reptile room, the whole room, not just the heating elements on cages, was: $76.86
And the gas heating was $19.32 for that room.

Unfortunately Habitat is all together. So that would include some one time items like cages and cage furniture, etc, along with substrate and other housing things. So habitat was: $932.22 in total.

Our vet is pretty reasonable. All visits have a base price of $45 per animal and medications, etc, are generally not very expensive. I don't really trust any of our local vets but the closest reptile expert I know of is two and a half hours away in another state. I've been told that the minimum price to get in to see him is around $500 and up. The local vet works decently for most things we encounter with the reptiles but if it was something big, we'd go to the expert.