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Cornsnakes "personalities"

All different personalities ~~~~~~~:~

We have 9 snakes all with different personalities but no biters. Merlin is the shy one but seems to love someone holding him. He crawls up your arm and sits on your shoulder. But I hardly ever see him out looking about. The girls on the other hand come out to check you out as soon as you enter the room. Corn Snakes Rule! Sam ~~~~~~:~
 
My Okeetee has been a people snake since we picked her up 8 mos. ago. She will come to me when I open her tank and climb up her limb and onto my arm. She has never attemped to bite yet. I can always put my hand in there to change water ect. That just promts her to come me. Once she comes out, she will easily go onto to the others in my family, but is weary of strangers and aways looks to come back to me.:D
 
I have an amel hypo that will let anyone anytime to pick it up..doesn't even mine the dog.I have an anery stripe that is crazy...One day he bites the next he tries to get out as fast as he can.He also does a "hit as a ton of bricks" attitude when it comes time to feed...Thanks goodness he is still small:)
 
I've got one evil blizzard named Lillith. She's a big snake and not only will she bite you the moment she see's your hand, she will constrict as well and make your hand turn blue. The only way I managed to get her off me is get a bucket of water and stick my hand in there till she lets go. I can't say that it really hurts (probably because my hand gets numb), but it is kinda' uncomfortable. I think it's because her pervious owner always fed live animals in the cage and never played with her for the 4 year's he's had her.

On the lighter side. I've got a very shy normal who won't ever get caught outside a hide when there's people around, but she'll get very inquisitive once you lift her hide and pick her up. She'll poke and prod around my arm, likes my hair (tries to get up there and curl up, I look funny, almost look like I have a snake turbin on).

I have a baby amel who's like a guard dog if you come near it's cage. It literally jumps out of it's hide and looks to see what's going on. But it's very docile once you pick him up, some tail rattling once in a while and some jaw flexing, but that's expected of a baby.

I also have a good sized okeetee who's become so domesticated that he pretty much qualifies as a lap snake. You can just pick him up and put him on your lap as you sit down to watch some TV. He'll move around a bit to get a comfortable position and sorta sit there staring at the screen. It's kinda funny, I wonder what he see's in the TV.

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mine also do diffrent things like my snow likes ot be high in the cage and likes to climb. my amel is very shy and keeps to her self. and my normal always stays in his special hide.
 
I am a newbie at this, I have 3 corns now with 3 more on the way. (It truly is an addiction:) ) All 3 of them have different personalities. Sparda my first is really sweet, but he likes to hide, you hardly ever see him, Peeper got his name because he is very curious, always peeping out and watching everything that goes on. Piper the female is very shy, but also very lovable. I have never had a problem with biting, but when I first got them they were a little "high-strung" now with handling on a daily basis, they have all calmed down and basically just sit in your hand and cruise a little through your fingers.
 
We have a silver queen ghost who is just never happy. She gets pretty upset anytime you first try to handle her, and isn't showing any signs of changing.

We also have an anery motley who thinks he's Superman. He will not sit still for anything or anybody, and has made himself airborne on several occasions. Geez these things are fast...:D
 
personaltiy bites

All of my breeders rattle when I open their cage or remove them. I really don't handle them like pets, though. A couple do bite more readily and even they let you know it's coming by violently swaying to get out of your hands. You then have about 5 seconds to get them in an enclosure. If they bite, it's really not painful, although a gravid female trying to lay eggs being palpated has a very different bite than the typical "leave me alone" strike. I learned this just last week!
(I don't suggest doing that, she had dropped one egg and wouldn't go in her laying box. Had to make sure she wasn't getting egg-bound. She hit me harder than I thought a corn could!):eek:
 
Rhiannon said:
does anyone have corns that bite them, if so does it hurt at all?
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My nine year old male bit me last week. he has never bitten in the nine years and not even hissed. But I have him on a tough diet right now so he is hungry all the time. He gets one small adult mouse every 14 days. This results in him striking and biting anything that enters the cage. The bites do draw blood but you do almost not feel it (mind you this is a 6' snake)
 

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Marcel, I am surprised eating only every 14 days makes him that hungry/snippy!

My adult males are always fed once per 14 days as a rule not as a diet!!!

:)

bmm
 
Yes, but he did not eat since end last summer. Then he started early April this year. So he had only four mice this year or so. Still he is huge and fat. It is easy to give in and feed him some more.. But I won't. ;)

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haha yeah.

It seems adult corns really get fat easy.....my males all get waaaay pudgy if I feed them every 7 days. Lazy buggers!

bmm :)
 
Marcell, I must say that IS a fat cornsnake!

I guess I didn't notice the animal closely enough while looking at your bites. Wow, I feed my breeders every week to ten days, depending on the individual and whether or not it's c/b. But I can't recall having anything (but black milks) get THAT pudgy! What size enclosures do you use for adults? Not that they are active even in big ones, just curious.
 
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This male has a cage that is 4 foot wide and 1.5 foot deep and 1.5 foot high. Would love to have bigger cages for them but I do not have the space. ;)
 
man when did people start crossing pythons with corns that thing is giant - it looks like it could eat a baby rabbit :)

As for nasty snakes i have only one a small creamsicle itis either the most highly strung corn i have ever had or it is 99.9% pure evil it bites as much as possible does the whole watch out i am a rattle snake routine and then bitess some more. He even hisses ever time he strikes when he takes food he hisses and strikes (no he doesnt get live food and too my knowlegde never has) the funny thing is everyone loves him and thinks hes a character:p the ven funnier thing is hes was bought by my girlfriend as a valintine present and is called valintine. IN hindsight i think my girlfriend may be trying to bump me off ! LOL

As for the rest of my corns i dont think any off them have ever been any trouble what so ever and i have had quite a few ( Hello every one my names " insert your name" and i am an cornsnake addict :)
 
I've got some stories... my amel was a very agressive eater, but very friendly snake. She would curl up in my pocket and go to sleep. I wouldn't walk around that way but I would sit an watch her, mostly fascinated until ten minutes later she peeked out.

Cupid... my baby ( not a baby-he's over 2 now) is so sweet he'll sit on my shoulders around my neck or curl around my wrist when I type on the computer..... any wonder why I called him cupid.

My striped anery is very skiddish and can be a real b*%!h when she wants to be, she also trys to jump out of my hand when I hold her, but sometimes I'll stroke her and she wont move, almost hipmotized. She also bit herself once, she missed the mouse and got stuck to herself, that was scarier than ever being bitten. I must be insane, I love the snakes so.

Remember to smile!:D
 
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