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how big are your snakes????

BarbwireNRoses

BarbwireNRoses

BarbwireNRoses
Lucy is a year and a half old and she shed the other day so I took the opportunity to measure her shed because she wiggles entirely too much to actually measure her. It measured at a whopping 47 inches...thats almost 4 feet!!! Is that normal for a Corn snake? I thought they only got to be 6 feet and she's over halfway there.
 
First off, snake sheds stretch.... up to 30%. At least 30% is the number I'm remembering. Let's say 10%, which is totally reasonable. That means your snake is actually 43 in. If the shed stretched 30% then the snake is actually 36 in. long.

So that gives you an idea of the actual length of your snake. As for what the normal length is, a four foot, or close to four foot corn of that age is a large snake!. If it's 1 1/2 years old and over 3 feet you've got a big corn. My large female 2 year old is almost 4 feet, so it's not extrordinary, but my other 2 year old corn is only 34 inches or so. Lengths vary.

Your snake will probably not get to 6 feet. that's unusual for corns. It seems the average is some where around 4.5 feet, and a 5 foot corn is moderately large, but not un heard of, while a 6 foot corn is huge and very rare.

If you'd like to get an acurate measurement of your snake use the program you can download from HERE called snake measurer. Read the directions! I love the program. It's not the most accurate thing every because of the little things that can set a measurement off, but it's pretty good and a great improvement from measuring a shed or a wriggleing snake. :)
 
not sure if 6 feet is rare... I have 2 older corn females who have never been bred and one is 5 1/2 feet and the other is 5 foot 9 inches... maybe the females get longer because of not being bred?? never had an adult male yet so not sure about the length of those :) Can only speak for the ones I have :)
 
I'm 95% sure that 6' is uncommon. At leat that's what I've seen and read, but who knows it's possible I'm wrong. It's interesting to see that both your snakes are so large (or what i consider large! :grin01: ). Sorry if i'm wrong about this, but i'm pretty sure that's correct. :shrugs:
 
I dont doubt you, not at all. :) I still wonder if its because they have never been bred. :shrugs: no idea, but I only have the 2 older adults... will be interesting to see what happens with the new babies I got coming.. will be like an experiment :)
 
According to "Corn Snakes in Captivity" sheds can be as much as 40%. The shed includes the sloughing off of more than just the snake's outer scales, which is why it's so much longer.

Something I wonder about as far as snake length goes, do breeders alter the length of corn snakes "unknowingly" if it happens to coincide with another trait that is being selected for?
 
Mines about a foot in length and is three weeks old. Never count on a shed for actual length because the shed stretches.
 
Cat_Eyed_Lady said:
I dont doubt you, not at all. :) I still wonder if its because they have never been bred. :shrugs: no idea, but I only have the 2 older adults... will be interesting to see what happens with the new babies I got coming.. will be like an experiment :)
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Okay, sorry.

Yeah, I wonder. I know longevity is affected by breeding, but I have no idea if size is or not. It would be interesting to get many more accurate measurements from breeders and non-breeders to see if that is actually the factor involved.

Are you planning on breeding the hatchlings your getting later on or not? Also, they're purchased, right? It would be great to see how lengths differed between a set of parents who are bred and their off spring, who would not be bred, but that would be a long and hard project to set up. Having snakes tested from the same lines like that would be very informative.
 
From what I recall, the world record for a corn was just over 6 ft. 4-5 ft. seems to be the norm. Most of my adults are 51-52" This is my amel as well as my Okeetees, females and males. They all are about the same size. We'll see what happens with the snows and lav. The lav was much smaller than the snows were and they all hatched out about the same time. He's since caught up in size although he's a bit slimmer. They are fed once a week, one hopper and they are a year old.
 
My Kisatchie is virtually unmeasurable, unless I can sneak up on him while he's asleep. But I was able to weigh him and he weighs 149 grams. I think he's probably in the 20" to 22" ballpark. My wife got this scale for her lizards and I think I'm going to weigh the snakes after every shed just to keep track.
 
I have an easy way to measure a wiggly snake. Get a fairly long piece of string. Then put one end of the string on the snakes head, then just work your way down the body with the string. After you are done measure the string and you'll have and almost exact measure of the snake... (Possible that it's a few millimeters off, but its still accurate.)
 
jazzgeek said:
And for us other computer nerds, here's a really good way to measure a wiggly snake.

regards,
jazz
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Damn you got to it before me. I'm scrolling through this topic and at the end I'm thinking "I'm gonna post serpwidgets I can't believe how many people don't use it!"
Well yeah do what Jazz Geek said. As long as you can take a picture of the snake from directly above next to an object that can be easily measured your good, doesn't even matter if the snake is blurry just as long as the length is identifiable.

My corn isn't even 1 year old yet, 10 months old and change she's a little over 2ft and 53grams.
 
I got there before both of you! In the last paragraph of the first post there is a link labeled "HERE" for that program, or actually to the main Apps page. :)
 
snake lengths

I have a 5 year old breeding male anery and he is just 5'. My Snow female who is 4 is missing her tail...the tell me she lost it as a yearling...Chewed by a mouse...She is about 52'' long. My lavender female is coming three years old...and she is the shortest at 35''. I have two yearling females that are 23-26''. One is a motley Lavendar and one a Pinkish looking Snow. All the rest of them are babies from this hatch season and range in size from about 15'' for early hatched to 11'' for the most recent. Charting growth on the babies this year will be fun.
 
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