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How long should I wait?

ZzombieSoxX

ZzombieSoxX

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Ok,so I got my first corn snake today, an 08' male snow corn. The breeder said that he was ready to eat,but I should wait a few days to let him get adjusted to his new home. How long should I wait? I don't want him to be stressed out from the big move from his old home to his new home,and then hungry ontop of it.

And another thing. He was said to be on hoppers right now, but should I wait on the hoppers and let him have a big fuzzy or something,just so his first meal with me isn't too big?

I'm a newbie and a very paranoid,curious one at that lol.

Thanks for any advice I can get :]
 
ZzombieSoxX said:
Ok,so I got my first corn snake today, an 08' male snow corn. The breeder said that he was ready to eat,but I should wait a few days to let him get adjusted to his new home. How long should I wait? I don't want him to be stressed out from the big move from his old home to his new home,and then hungry ontop of it.

And another thing. He was said to be on hoppers right now, but should I wait on the hoppers and let him have a big fuzzy or something,just so his first meal with me isn't too big?

I'm a newbie and a very paranoid,curious one at that lol.

Thanks for any advice I can get :]
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Yes let the snake setting ing a few days...say five before feeding.
And feeding an smaller food item just to start off is a good thought too.
 
Just about exactly what I was going to say Lenny. :)

I generally feed a smaller prey item when a new snake comes in. If it is handled well, then the snake is fed the 'proper' size the next time.
 
Welll what if I feed him a smaller meal,and he is still hungry afterwards? How would I tell if he is? I don't wanna have him be stressed from having a new home and all and then think he's not getting fed enough as well :[
 
You know, I don't think snakes feel hunger like we do. They are opportunistic feeders, so they'll eat pretty much any amount you put in front of them (if you gave your snake the option, he'd probably eat until he nearly exploded). As long as he gets something, even if it is a size smaller than he usually eats, he'll be happy.
 
Alrighty. Along with his hoppers I bought two fuzzies for his first feeding. I only plan on giving him one but my mom went and bought two incase I needed it. I love my little guy and I want him to be happy and healthy :]
 
What a nice mom you have! My mom would never buy food for my guys. And she still (even after nearly 3 years of me being back home) gets a little freaked out by the 1000 or so mice, rats, and guinea pigs in her basement freezer...:laugh:

So, my advice would be to feed him his first fuzzy in a few days, and then give him the second fuzzy for his next meal, and then start on the hoppers. :)
 
Ha! My mom is being awesome about this whole snake thing lol. She didn't even want me getting one,but after I talked her into it,she came with me today to a reptile expo and ended up helping me pay for like half the stuff I needed. Even wanted me to get a bigger snake. Had her eyes set on a ball python lol.
I'm not worried about her being freaked out by the mice in the freezer,I'm more worried about my dad. I can just see him forgetting I have a snake,going to get some hamburgers and viola! Finding a nice bag of juicy mice. Lol.
 
When I got my first snake about 5 years ago I still lived with my parents. I just randomly set up a tank in my room one day and got my Apollo (the big guy in my avatar). My mom didn't even notice for about 2 weeks. She came in one morning and was like 'Is there something in that tank?'.

She doesn't mind the mice in the freezer, in fact at one point there were some in her upstairs freezer where she had to see them all the time, I think it is just the quantity of rodentia that bothers her. :p
 
I was hoping I wouldn't have to tell my dad about my snake. He doesn't come in my room,so he'd never notice lol. Buttt with the mouse thing I had to tell him. Could you imagine finding frozen mice in your freezer and having NO idea why they were there? xD
 
Haha! That would be an interesting discovery...

I'm not even sure my dad knows about my snakes (or at least doesn't know how many I have)...he's only been in my house once or twice (I live in the in-law house behind their house, so they sorta just leave me alone).
 
Yeah....its sort of an addiction....you'll find that out soon enough! ;) They're like potato chips, you can't have just one. Within 3 weeks of buying my first snake I had my second. I had a third at one point, but she was a very sporadic feeder, and I didn't know much at the time, so I gave her to a friend with more snake experience. So I just had the two snakes while I was at home and when I lived on my own for almost 2 years, then I moved back home and stuck with just two for almost a year. Then the collection grew from 2 to over 50 just since February of last year...
 
I'm very good at organizing in small spaces. The house I live in is tiny (itty bitty kitchen, a living room, bedroom, and bathroom), but I make it work. I only have 2 snakes in tanks, everyone else is in a rack type arrangement, so that makes for very efficient use of vertical space (I can house 20 or more snakes in the same horizontal 'footprint' as a tank would take up).
 
Hallie said:
I'm very good at organizing in small spaces. The house I live in is tiny (itty bitty kitchen, a living room, bedroom, and bathroom), but I make it work. I only have 2 snakes in tanks, everyone else is in a rack type arrangement, so that makes for very efficient use of vertical space (I can house 20 or more snakes in the same horizontal 'footprint' as a tank would take up).
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God I want an apartment so I can do that. Even if snakes weren't allowed it could easily just be disguised as storage XD
 
I knew it wouldn't be long before you joined us Daenerys (sorry, I don't know your name). You've been quite active around here lately! We like to see that (congrats on 100 posts). :) I think that most of my snakes being in tubs is why my mom still thinks I only have around 20 (which is what I tell her when she asks how many I have).
 
ZzombieSoxX said:
I've seen a lot of rack type things for snake storage. Those are so neat looking lol
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Mine are all 'homemade'. I just got some inexpensive wire shelving from Target and use plastic bins stacked on the shelves. :) Of course, heating then becomes a bit of an issue, but I've got that all worked out too.
 
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