i am new at snake keeping i got a male normal corn snake six months ago he is 24 inches eats great and growing and shedding well he is in a 55 gallon tank he has four hides a big water dish aspen bedding lots of vines and in in the proses of preparing some limbs to put in there he is a night owl loves the dark and doesn't seem too mind all the space he has space the 55 has you can see his tunnel work in the aspen and he climbs to the top of the vines at night