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Commonly Overlooked By Beginners?

EddieA said:
A couple things that bug me:

1. Heat lamps

2. People who go right out, buy a pair of adults, and go about breeding right away and THEN come in with a ton of questions after the eggs are laid. Questions are great, but some of these should be asked before deciding to breed, IMO (like how to incubate). I think more people would benefit from raising at least one corn to adulthood before breeding (researching all the while).
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Agreed! Also something I've seen fairly often in ads re-homing snakes, people will have a UTH & one or two heat lamps all on the same cage, so it doesn't look like there is a cool end at all.
 
1. not joining and throughly reading this site before spending dime one on a snake or accessories; 2. Being talked into buying the heat lamp; 3. being talked into buying a useless stick on thermometer; 3.trying to be cheap by using a jerry rigged fish tank or other enclosure that really is not very secure or designed for snakes; and 4 not picking your corn out in person to test for temperament(not an issue for most I guess but I want to lay eyes on any pet I buy). I made all of the mistakes I mentioned except 4. I also got lucky and stumbled across this site the day I bought my corn. I still had to buy everything twice though.

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Honestly, message boards I think are of such value to new pet owners. I don't know where I'd be if I wasn't a message board junkie. You can learn so much more from asking questions and reading topics by people who actually have hands on experience with these animals. Reading books are good as well, but posting on here is even better in a lot of ways because you can be specific about your situation.
 
The most common rookie mistake I've observed for ANY herp (be it corn snake or lizard/turtle/frog/what-have-you) is believing everything the pet store employee (or any random relative/neighbor/random guy on the street) says.

Another would be just plain not researching/asking questions, even at the pet store.

Another common mistake is not getting the entire set-up BEFORE getting the animal. This was my rookie mistake... I didn't wait for the thermostat and feeder mouse shipments to arrive before ordering the snake. The snake ended up coming almost a week before the thermostat, and over a week before the mice.
 
Good things snakes can take a bit of a fast ;). But I agree that too many people take their snake home the same day they buy the vivarium.
 
I feel always a bit sad when I see people selling a baby snake after a couple of weeks because they are too scared of it.... :bang: !!!GET OVER IT!!! I also wonder if they haven't held it before they bought it to see if they do actually like it.

Further, people selling snakes because "they can't get it out as much ad they need to taken out" also make me wonder what they know about snakes. Good for them snakes that they are not taken out three times a day :spinner: I sued to email them with this knowledge but none ever responded or canceled the ad... guess they just got bored with their impulse buy :smash:
 
charlie1 said:
1. not joining and throughly reading this site before spending dime one on a snake or accessories; 2. Being talked into buying the heat lamp; 3. being talked into buying a useless stick on thermometer; 3.trying to be cheap by using a jerry rigged fish tank or other enclosure that really is not very secure or designed for snakes; and 4 not picking your corn out in person to test for temperament(not an issue for most I guess but I want to lay eyes on any pet I buy). I made all of the mistakes I mentioned except 4. I also got lucky and stumbled across this site the day I bought my corn. I still had to buy everything twice though.

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1. I'd seen this forum once before before i finally joined it, I only skimmed, thought it was helpful, and joined!
2. I have a heat lamp for Muscles. know why? Because they were out of heat mats! hardy-har-har, isn't that great? So I buy him two heat lamps (day and night) and a bulb guard only to find that the special-edition-snake-only-heat-lamp-from-Zilla breaks the first day! :crazy02: <<That's how angry I was. That's all I could do. Now he has just a normal light bulb that goes off at night. Hey, before he wasn't getting anything :nope:
3. Lol Zeus is in a fish tank, 22 gallon tall, with a locking screen on top of it. Muscles is in a reptile-tank.
4. I guess I got lucky: Muscles is wild :eek1: I can tell you first-hand he is. I lucked out because he's docile, a good shedder and a good eater. Still want to get him tested for parasites though.

Yeah, I tend to use what I can find, because it WORKS. Muscles is a wild snake. He would have had extreme heat, freezing, down-pours, hurricanes in the wild. Now he has a cozy, predator-free home, a hide that he loves above all else (except food) and gets a free, no-work neccessary meal every week!
 
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