Corn Snake gurus, need help identifying these rescues.

[Desert_Rat]

Hi All. I recently adopted (rescued) a few corn snakes from a person who was unable to care for them properly. All are malnourished and 5-6 years old, and they are about the size of a well fed yearling in length. They have very little muscle mass or fat.

I am hoping to rehabilitate them and find them wonderful home. I doubt they would ever become good breeders. I have been feeding them small meals frequently. They could take medium mice, but I worry they are not use to that size of meal any may regurgitate. I have been feeding them two pinky rats every 3 days. Does anyone have any suggestions for adding weight quickly to these poor little guys. 6 of the 8 snakes are females, all the females have been bred by the previous owner and produced eggs. Way too small to breed IMO, they were all purchased as hatchlings and fed approx. once a month since she purchased them. Very sad.

I was also hoping somebody could tell me what morph these ones are? I received 8 corns in total. 4 appear to be creamsicles? one normal, two anerys, and one is a snow.
I am posting pictures of the ones in question.

pictures 1-2, I am thinking are a creamsicle. I have 3 that look like this.
Snake in pictures # 2-5 have a similar coloring but looks a bit different to me, previous owner called it a creamsicle, but I am not sure. I am a python/boa guy and do not know my corns very well. Picture #6 looks like a normal...I think? #7 I am thinking is a creamsicle also.
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
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5. above snake with flash

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[Desert_Rat]

ooops, first picture again

They are all in 6 qt. Sterilites for size reference.

 

[RavenSpirit360]

You are a great person for rescuing these guys I agree they look like creamsicles. #6 could be a normal or maybe even a rootbeer if related to the creamsicles?? While osme of them are pretty skinny a few don't look to bad, so hopefully they will all recover well
Good luck with these guys

 

[Roy Munson]

Maybe you're just used to looking at boas and pythons, because none of those snakes looks dangerously thin. In fact, all the ones in the pics look pretty good! Corns are supposed to be slender snakes (especially compared to most pythons and boas). Give each a prey item that is 1-1.5x its girth at its widest point every seven or eight days.

I don't like playing the "creamsicle or amel" game, so I won't comment on that.

 

[Desert_Rat]

Thanks. One of them has decent weight, most likely because it's the male and never been subjected to laying eggs. All of them were housed together along with a ball python. I know the person cared about the snakes, but just did not know how to properly care for them.

I cut my collection back from over 100 snakes down to around 50, and then took in 8 more-geesh. I couldn't say "no" when I saw these poor little critters. A few of them are almost like holding a cold wet noodle, they have no muscle mass.

I have them all in a quarantine rack, housed individually with aspen bedding, a nice large water bowl and a hide. The poor little guys were very thirsty when I introduced them to their new containers, they stuck their heads in the water for several minutes and drank and drank. I should have weighed them but my first priority was to get them setup correctly and get a meal in them.

 

[RavenSpirit360]

Looking back at the pics again more closely, Dean is right, the only one that looks thin is #7. #2 looks a bit thin too, but not bad. I think you will have them well and healthy again very soon. Make sure to keep them isolated, as I'm sure you know.

 

[Desert_Rat]

It must be the angle of the pictures-trust me. This one is typical of most of them as far as size. #3 does not look too bad. He was the fattest of the group and has 4 rat pinks in him.

I have kept many corns, kings, everglades rats and numerous other colubrids in the past. I just now prefer to keep boids. I am not naive as to what a healthy corn is supposed to look like.

These are all 5-6 years old and were fed once a month and have not had a meal in almost two months.
She weighs in 215 grams with 2 rat pinks in her belly. I personally do not think that is healthy. Perhaps these photo will give a better perspective?
I do not know what would be healthy about being fed once a month and being bred. I know snakes are opportunistic feeders in the wild and do not eat every 7 days like many of us feed ours.
I do a lot of herping in here and rarely find a wild native glossy, longnose, green ratsnake etc. as thin as some of these. Perhaps I will let them digest their meals and get some better pictures.

 

[Desert_Rat]

 

[RavenSpirit360]

She does look thinner in the last two pics. I think they will be fine though They have you now That one almost looks like a butter Keep us updated on them, I would love to see how they look in a few months.

 

[JustineNYC]

7 looks worst off. Ive had snakes become very thin and I know its hard to get it to show up.....6 and 7 you can tell have baggy skin where they curl....the others look alright. 5 & 3 look great though.....others you can tell from angles you can see the spine though, their triangle like....

Anyway, hang on to the pics and post more when they fatten up! Good luck!