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Judging the Age of a Corn snake on size?

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Christiaan

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Hi

Is there any way that one can determine what the exact age of a corn snake is. After reading some of these Misc CS Discussions it seems one can't go on size of the snake.

My "Old Man" is about 1.6 meters long and I do not know if he really is an old man.

Any one out there that can help answer this question?
 
Unfortunately, once it reaches adult size - anywhere between 18 months to 3 years, depending on the feeding regime and individual's metabolism - there's no way of telling how old it is.

Typically, an "adult" could be anything from 3 to 20+ years old. In older snakes, you could look for the occasional signs of ageing, such as a darkening of colours in Normals or cataracts. However, not all Corns develop these outward signs of age.

Breeding females seem to have gradually declining fertilty from about 8-9 years of age, but this doesn't hold true for all females so you can't really use it as an indicator.

As for males - well, my 19 year old is just as frisky in the mating season as he always was! Not that I let him near a female these days, but age and sight problems don't slow him down when the sap rises.

Sorry - not much help I'm afraid. Hope others have more ideas.
 
other than knowing the animals history there is no real way.

like my female who is on weekly feeding is about 2 feet and my new male who is a bi-weekly feeder is about 10 inches. and they are both summer 06 hatchlings.
 
Ok Thanks guys.

It seems that I will have to do it the hard way and try to locate the previous owners and find out from them how long they had them for. Wish me luck.
 
Hi

I managed to locate and chat to the original owner of my "Old man" and he turned to be a Not so old man. He is about 2,5 yrs old now. This brings me to another question, but I will post it in a new thread.

Good time to start breeding with him? Just a pitty his mate escaped and has been missing for about 2 months now. (PS this is not the "New Question")
 
Rule of thumb that i have seen on here a few times in weight.

Females: 300+ grams
Males: 200+ grams

Hope this helps.

Best of luck with breeding!
 
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