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Feeding response gone bad...

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Jaremy

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As I was cleaning my snake rack today I quickly grabbed my butter and put her in the next tub down so I could clean it. The next tub down was my snow corn and she went into a feeding response and bit the butter. By the time I got them seperated the butter was left with a small scrape on her tail. This is a classic example of why corns should not be housed together and from now on I will put them in empty cages while I clean. Anyone else have a similiar horror story. Here is a pic of the wound, her teeth must must have gotten stuck in the top scales, but the bottom scales are fine. I washed it with peroxide and will be watiching it closely over the next week.
 

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Here is a close up. Mostly scratches, it affects 3 or four scales but they look to be intact. Anyone know how long this will take to heal?
 

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I was feeding in rack set-up last week and one of my corns bit his own tail and tried to coil it up he did not do any damage but it reminded of the old wives tale that snakes can grab their tales and roll down hills.
 
Yeah, I have heard that wives tale before. How old was your corn that bit himself? Sometimes snakes seem very intelligent and then they go and do something like bite themselves. Instinct plays so strongly in these creatures.
 
Two years old. He smelled the rat rattled his tail because I opened the bin looked at it and struck and then just held it. Reptiles have an odd way of receiving stimuli in their tails sometimes they know instantly sometimes it takes awhile if he knew that he had his tail he just wondered why the harder he bit the more HIS tail hurt...how dare that rat-cicle attack him!
 
I would put a little neosporin on the wound, or a triple antibiotic, if you have a dusty substrate like wood chips or something then it may be a good idea to switch to paper towels or shredded newspapers till the wound is closed up really well so that it doesn't get dirty.

Me leopard geckos get "fiesty" when it comes to breeding seasons and the little lady always ends up having small bite marks all over her back, I use neosporin on her, and she heals up pretty fast

just a sugguestion
 
Thats good advice I will use some neosporin or triple antibiotic ointment. I am keeping her on newspaper. Thanks for the advice. The Corn Snake Manual also gives the same advice and says it should heal rapidly.

Jaremy
 
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