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Found our escapee corn after 6 months

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mashie

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Hi, came here for some advice. We have just found my husbands escapee corn after 6 months AWOL. She was 8 months when she got out through a tiny hole in a vent, and is now not much longer but very thin. She is very thin and lethargic, but ate a fluff last night. How often should we feed her to get her healthy again, and do we do anything else? (We think she has survived by hunting the occasional fish from my tropical tank, as they had been mysteriously "dissapearing" over the lady few months, but are not sure if that would be possible.)

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Well , great news anyways !!

I'm not certain about your feeding strategy now ..... in the wild I gather they'd eat as much as they find ( family of rodents down a hole or whatever ) so one way would be to offer a big meal/ few at once (d/f frozen presumably) although I'd probably leave it 5 days but it's up to you ...


I don't think it will have been eating your tropical fish to be honest . I keep tropicals myself and they just die off randomly / gradually .
 
mashie said:
Hi, came here for some advice. We have just found my husbands escapee corn after 6 months AWOL. She was 8 months when she got out through a tiny hole in a vent, and is now not much longer but very thin. She is very thin and lethargic, but ate a fluff last night. How often should we feed her to get her healthy again, and do we do anything else? (We think she has survived by hunting the occasional fish from my tropical tank, as they had been mysteriously "dissapearing" over the lady few months, but are not sure if that would be possible.)

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Congratulations mashie! How ya been?

:welcome:

I wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth there mashie! Be happy your little sneaky one returned and treat it with kid gloves, to put it mildly! At least I would if it were mine. Just feed it really gradually and slowly (a pinky now and depending upon its weight, not its length, another pinky or fuzzy in 6 or 7 days (unsure if a "fluff" is a fuzzy across the pond, but if it kept down one of them without regurgitating, thank your lucky stars and wait a week until you feed it another one!). The bottom line is that it probably survived off of water alone (yes they CAN do that even for MONTHS! I had a newborn who went 3 and half months without EVER eating before he finally circled the drain, poor little bugger!). I never heard of a corn snake eating a tropical fish, but it sounds kinda cool if he DID (except to the poor fishie, that is!).

If it were mine, I would feed it slowly and gradually for the first couple of months until it is able to gain back some body mass and increase its immune system to be able to keep disease and parasites at bay.

Just sayin'. :my2cents_01:

BTW, do you have a name for it yet? If not, "Houdini" or "Robinson Crusoe" might be an appropriate suggestions for a moniker!
 
He called it Ruby as it's a snow corn type with the red eyes. She is now happily back in her viv and curled up, head poking up from the Aspen. We knew she was about as we had put out cornflour and found a couple of shed skins, but hadn't been able to find her. As the weather is now getting cooler, we turned down the heat in the room and left a hide over a heat mat in a shallow container on the floor, lo and behold, 4 days later she was curled up in the hide. A big relief for us all.

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She didn't regurgitate, and a fluff was the next stage up from a pinkie

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mashie said:
He called it Ruby as it's a snow corn type with the red eyes. She is now happily back in her viv and curled up, head poking up from the Aspen. We knew she was about as we had put out cornflour and found a couple of shed skins, but hadn't been able to find her. As the weather is now getting cooler, we turned down the heat in the room and left a hide over a heat mat in a shallow container on the floor, lo and behold, 4 days later she was curled up in the hide. A big relief for us all.

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Clever :) ....
 
My twin 15yr old boys idea, they each wanted corn snakes and both saved up and bought the ewuipment etc so i got them babies from a local breeder.My hubby and i were so taken with them we went back and got one each too, all diffent varients. When she did the escape act after 3 months he was devastated. We are now back to 4 cornies, 3 dogs, 4 cats and the fish,guess you could say we are hooked! lol.

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mashie said:
He called it Ruby as it's a snow corn type with the red eyes. She is now happily back in her viv and curled up, head poking up from the Aspen. We knew she was about as we had put out cornflour and found a couple of shed skins, but hadn't been able to find her. As the weather is now getting cooler, we turned down the heat in the room and left a hide over a heat mat in a shallow container on the floor, lo and behold, 4 days later she was curled up in the hide. A big relief for us all.

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Smart! Glad that worked out OK. Also happy to hear you don't have cats, as I do, and any loose little sneaky ones would have meant PLAYTIME if any of my kitties discovered one wandering about!

So a "fluff" IS a "fuzzy." Glad there wasn't a regurge. So maybe feed another in 6 or 7 days? Just keep it under close observation for the first couple of weeks and I'm sure it will get back to its old self really soon. I just LOVE a happy ending when it comes to lost snakes. I've lost more than one in my lifetime and am still kicking myself in the ass! I've lost toads out of windows when I was a kid but have USUALLY been careful, but not always. A couple of years ago I was arrogant enough to place a yearling ("Slick" was his name) corn over my rearview mirror in my car as he was really relaxed, docile, and slow-moving - or so I THOUGHT! I was actually on my way to take my niece to the movies and was going to teach her to handle cornsnakes before taking him back home and dropping him off. The next thing I knew, I was driving on the highway and doing like 55 mph when I noticed the tip of Slick's tail disappearing into a vent on the dashboard!! Needless to say, I have NEVER taken ANY of my cornsnakes outside of the house unless it was a necessary trip, like to the vet! It only takes a couple of milliseconds for a corn snake to disappear forever!

I hope yours stays with you and yours for the foreseeable future!!!!
 
mashie said:
My twin 15yr old boys idea, they each wanted corn snakes and both saved up and bought the ewuipment etc so i got them babies from a local breeder.My hubby and i were so taken with them we went back and got one each too, all diffent varients. When she did the escape act after 3 months he was devastated. We are now back to 4 cornies, 3 dogs, 4 cats and the fish,guess you could say we are hooked! lol.

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Wait till you have a dog , an Axolotl , 4 tanks of fish and 20 snakes :)


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