Corn Snakes are amazing

[GitaBooks]

Hi everyone!

At this time we only have two corn snakes, but hopefully that will change soon. Jack is our first snake we ever had, he is now a nice, full grown adult albino Corn. He is very tame, slow moving, healthy, and easy to handle. He will even exercise out in the yard.
Jill, on the other hand, would disappear in seconds. She is five times as fast as Jack and a beautiful glowing red with dark eyes and a white underside with orange markings. They called it Sunglo I think, but I don't know how much I believe who I bought it from.
I'm hoping that there was no lying (I have a sneaking suspicion there was) and she truly is a girl because I'm hoping to breed the two. Jack would have been the perfect snake, but he would get so anxious every spring during the breeding season that he constantly tried to escape and wouldn't eat. We wanted to let him have a girl friend to keep him happy.

Thanks for letting me join! I look forward to learning more about Corn Snakes!

 

[hypnoctopus]

Welcome to the forum! Isn't it interesting how your snakes can have different personalities? I'd love to see some pictures of your snakes.

And unfortunately, satisfying your male's breeding instincts won't actually improve his springtime demeanor, at least in my experience. Are you housing them together? His springtime antics may stress your female if they're living together.

Cute names, by the way.

 

[GitaBooks]

Thanks. : )

They are only placed together during spring breeding time, so right now they are in separate enclosures. They each have a 50 gallon (actually Jack's is 55) aquarium with a moist hide and dry hide.

How do you post pictures from your computer? It says I have to do it with a URL, but the pictures aren't on the internet (I'm not a computer genius if you didn't notice).

 

[hypnoctopus]

Okay, good. I'm glad they have separate enclosures.

There are a few ways to post pictures, but the easiest for me is to upload the pictures onto the internet, using imgur.com (or any image hosting website). Imgur is nice because once you upload it, it has a whole bunch of codes next to it. You then copy and paste the code that starts and ends with

into your reply. I always like to click the 'Go Advanced' button to see if my things posted properly.

Or if you want to upload them to any image hosting website, you can just post links that we can click.

 

[kdickens]

Unless you live in a desert, you probably don't need a 'moist' side and a dry side. You will though need a warm side (normally using an under tank heater) and a cool side, with hides on each side. Then your snake will have the option to move around where most comfortable! And yes, when you figure out the best way for you, we'd all love to see your snake pics!

 

[GitaBooks]

Thanks! I'll try that for the photos!

The moist hides are helpful because the water dishes aren't deep enough for soaking, so when they are preparing to shed they go to the moist boxes instead.

I'll try to get some pictures up soon. : )

 

[GitaBooks]

Here, I think I got a photo. Jack is on the left and Jill on the right. This is right after we introduced them. They love burrowing under the dried grass and leaves.

 

[hypnoctopus]

Very nice pair. They're both nice and bright.

 

[GitaBooks]

Thanks. : )