Hi All

[appygaz]

Hello to you all on this site and thank you for setting it up, the information is first rate as it is written by people keeping corns right now, and not info that can be years out of date.
My corns were given to me by my partner a week ago as she knew i'd had snakes before, i'll add a pic of the male (i think judging by the length of his tail), the female is hiding in there bed and i dont bother them unless either one of them are out. The male is 4 foot long and the female is 3 foot long.

thanks again for the site Gary:cheers:

 

[SnakesOfCorn]

Hey welcome! I'm a new comer as well...this is a GREAT site. The people here are top notch and VERY helpful. I had a question for you actually, do you keep your corns in the same tank?? I was always told not to...

Thanks, SC
Happy Holidays

P.S. your snake is really nice looking

 

[atmox]

Welcome and nice snake!

Same question here, are they in the same tank? It's better to keep them apart from each other, even more so if they're male and female or you will have lot's of baby snakeys

 

[Tinkerbeller87]

Very pretty snake and welcome to the forum! I would do some looking around on here, use the search section, there is lots to learn about! Also don't hesitate to ask questions, we are all here to help!

 

[appygaz]

thank you for the welcome, I do keep the corns together in the same tank because i was told by the pet shop who supplied them that the previous owner had kept them together for the last 2 years (whilst trying to breed them).
So far the only issue has been the male (nake) tried to pull a mouse from the females mouth (nessie) when she had half eaten it. I have overcome this by removing nake from the tank and feeding nessie first, can i please add i didn't name either snake the kids did.
What problems other than feeding would keeping them together pose apart from them breeding, if that happend i would remove nake to a seperate tank.
Nake and Nessie out looking for mice, as you can see nake (on the right) is much bigger than nessie (on the left)

 

[OkeeteeMom]

Hello, and welcome Appygaz!

I did a basic search, using the term 'cohabitate' and got these results: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/search.php?searchid=1988348

You'll also want to read the basic FAQs set up under each category here. For example, here are the FAQs under Husbandry & Basic care: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28341

 

[Haarstad]

Welcome to the forum. When you cohab, The snakes may kill each other while looking for food. Also, if one were to regurge, you wouldn't know which one, and that is a very important because you need to follow the regurge protocol after one were to regurge, or if one stops pooping for several weeks, you may not notice it, or you won't know which one. Plus if you have a problem with the tank (such as heat issues), then you have both snakes undergoing the same stressful situation in an environment that is very small for 2 full grown corn snakes. Plus breeding can be dangerous for the female if it's too small and if i remember correctly. There are just too many things that can go wrong when you put 2 snakes in the same small cage, they have no way of getting away if one is having a problem with the other, which tends to make things worse. Corn snakes do not need each other to keep from getting lonely. They don't have other corn snakes in the wild to keep them company, they only meet up with other ones to occasionally mate but they are just as happy being on their own.