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Baby Corn

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angusrock

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So i bought this baby corn snake from the pet store about eight or nine weeks ago, right now i have him a ten gallon tank with a heat pad on one of the tank with his hide on that same side, and the water dish on the other side... i was using the moist corn husk bedding but found it dried out too fast so i was told by the pet store too use pine shavings instead, so thats what im using... I feed him one pinky once a week and take him out everyday.. . the average temperature in the tank is somewhere around 74-78 degrees, and has been since i've had him... i've read that the temperature should be higher than that but the guy at the pet store told me it isnt really a big deal and that the corn will adjust... up until about a week and a half ago my corn was out and about all the time, then he started getting ready to shed and stayed in his hide. he shed about four days ago and hes still hiding in his hide ... i havent seen him roming around his tank for a while now. Is there anything wrong here? Am i doing anything wrong? Also the thermometer im using is a stick on ... from when the tank was used for an aquarium... im also transferring my corn to a twenty gallon tank in a few weeks .. would anyone reccomend usin a heat lamp on that instead of a heat pad? ...
Any comments or help with my issues are greatly appreciated. thanksssss...
 
Pine contains oils that can seriously harm your snake, so you should switch to aspen as soon as possible, use newspaper or ktchen roll if you can't get the aspen straight away. At lower temperatures your corn could have trouble in digesting its food before it decomposes, leading to regurges. Welcome to the forum, you'll get better advice by reading the f a q's and using the search functions than at most petshops
 
Oh and you shouldn't handle for at least 48 hours after feeding, as this can also trigger a regurge. The best thermometers to use are digital with a probe, to measure the temperature under the substrate, as the stick-on type will only show the ambiant air temp, and they are notoriously inaccurate!
 
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