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I know this is corn snakes

Spencer

Spencer

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But...I literally just bought a hognose snake, male, and am very excited..... just wanted to share
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UTH..... side mounting is okay for hot side?
 
I wouldn't side mount. You get no heat just inches away from side as UTH don't heat the air they heat what they are touching, so the glass would be heated but nothing else. On the bottom they heat the glass and substrate.
 
Here is my newest addition. Boy.

I was tempted on getting a black mexican king, but, it was more expensive, and when the guy took it out, it bit 3 times. He said it was hungry, but still.... Hungry or not, my corn has only ever bitten me once, and I think there are nto as many people with Hognose snakes.
If anyone here does have experience with them, I would be glad for any tips on how they differ from Corns.

He is 3 months old..... I watched her feed before buying her. It took her a bit to eat, but eventually she did.
 

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It's ok to post these kinds of threads in the General Chit-Chat Forum.

In general, belly heat is ideal, but back/side, and top heat (or ambient) can still be effectively used. (Always with a thermostat, as with any heat, of course.)
 
Nice snake. Very pretty. Thank you for sharing. I completely understand the excitement!
 
Definitely use belly heat, hogs like it quite warm. Offer lots of hides or better yet, a substrate they can burrow in. If you're used to feeding corns, scale the feeding size back about 50% and feed twice weekly rather than once. Nearly every male will go off feed at some point, and I can tell by the second picture yours was sexed correctly. It will probably be next year before your young male fasts. They huff and puff, but never bite defensively. Some individuals are shy and others are quite voracious and stupid at feeding time. For either end of the spectrum I would not recommend feeding hogs in a separate enclosure. Never feed live, unless it's pink mice. They are not designed to, nor good at, killing rodents. That's about all there is to set them apart from corns.
 
Thanks Chip! thats really helpful. I am using belly heat, but the heat UTH is small. its about 3 inches wide and a foot long. covers the hide, and about the same space as the other hide

I am using Aspen.... Which is what my Corn uses.

unfortunately, it is quite cold in my house, no heating or insulation at all..... but I have both snakes in my room where I frequently use a kerosene heater.....I moved Roxy last week because I figured its usually warmer in there.

I did ask to see a feeding, the issue was he was hesitant to take the food already, but he eventually took it, it may have been because the little guy was essentially kept in 4 x 4 inch plastic pastry container. now i have him in a foot by foot and a half viv that i used to use for my corn. He seemed a lot more active then my lazy ass corn. he was burrowing a lot more too.

Hmm, The seperate container. The issue with that, is having Aspen shavings, With a mouse, shavings sometiems get stuck. How would you recommend avoiding this so he doesnt accidently eat some?

I would never, ever feed any animal live prey if I had a choice in the matter.
Thanks again Chip. I appreiciate it!!
 
Spencer said:
Thanks Chip! thats really helpful. I am using belly heat, but the heat UTH is small. its about 3 inches wide and a foot long. covers the hide, and about the same space as the other hide

I am using Aspen.... Which is what my Corn uses.

unfortunately, it is quite cold in my house, no heating or insulation at all..... but I have both snakes in my room where I frequently use a kerosene heater.....I moved Roxy last week because I figured its usually warmer in there.

I did ask to see a feeding, the issue was he was hesitant to take the food already, but he eventually took it, it may have been because the little guy was essentially kept in 4 x 4 inch plastic pastry container. now i have him in a foot by foot and a half viv that i used to use for my corn. He seemed a lot more active then my lazy ass corn. he was burrowing a lot more too.

Hmm, The seperate container. The issue with that, is having Aspen shavings, With a mouse, shavings sometiems get stuck. How would you recommend avoiding this so he doesnt accidently eat some?

I would never, ever feed any animal live prey if I had a choice in the matter.
Thanks again Chip. I appreiciate it!!
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When I feed in the viv I place the meal on a large plastic lid like from a butter container.
 
I use rabbit pellets for baby hogs, and it doesn't hurt if they ingest some. It works great as long as it stays dry, which hogs should be anyway.
 
Just wanted to bump and update that I no longer use rabbit food for baby hogs and have switched to Yesterday's News cat litter. I started getting some kind of mite in the rabbit food, and the rabbit food seems to be their food source. They never moved to the bins with paper towels, YN, or aspen. Tiny critters, they looked like rabbit food dust (the exact color), and their hobbies included drowning in the water bowl by the tens of thousands. I sterilized and replaced everything with YN about a month ago, and they have vanished. Wish I'd thought to have photographed the water bowls to show them, but I went into destroy mode as soon as I saw them.
 
Yeah, and Troy (Deadmouse) swears by the stuff for hoggies. I don't know if it was the batch I bought or my location, but I had never seen anything populate so quickly. Even the rolled closed tight bag on the floor was infested with them.
 
Here is a great trick to getting a hognose to eat. Remove the water dish and offer a soaking wet brained pinkie every 2-3 days. Eventually they will need a water source. Once they eat replace the water dish.

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They also thrive with a humid hide. (Once you've gotten them to eat) They are burrowers so a moist spagnum hide really is beneficial. Also multiple small hides are beneficial. And finally when our first hog didn't eat for 3 months we started giving him a light with a timer. They are diurnal so you will actually see them come out and about when the lights come on.

I tried anoles, scenting, everything. The removal of the water bowl finally worked with offering a soaking wet brained pinky on a paper plate. (You don't want any puddles of water) now with his humid hide and light he has eaten great for us but usually doesnt eat for a couple months each winter.

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