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My New Corn snake hasn't POOPED yet

K

Kwelsome

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I have had no problems with eating , i HAVE HAD HIM (FRED) FOR THREE WEEKS FEED HIM A PINKIE ONCE A WEEK, bUT HE DOESN'T SEEM TO drink and from what I have read they like to drink. I give him bottled water clean it once a day even through it never seems dirty. The temp is 75 to 80 last week I dunked the pinkie in water before feeding BUT It has been three weeks the breeder told me he ate the day before I got him so he has had 4 pinkies in 4 weeks yet not poop. How often should he be taking a dump, dropping the kids off at the pool, pinching a loaf.

Oh also I feed him in a plastic container so he doesn't ingest any substrate, I am using bark the breeder sold me and uses for all his snakes, I am thinking maybe he ingested some before I got him

I changed his water dish today , should the dish be bigger or should I not be worried.

I have tried putting him in the dish maybe the water is to cold

Other wise he seems healthy although not very active in the cage, I handle him every day.

Maybe a some exlax or a bigger water dish???????

Thank you in advance
Kevin
www.welsomehomeloans.com
 
It's really hard to catch them in the act of drinking, I only have a few but rarely see them drinking. As for poo with the little snakes it can really be hard to find. Not all corns get in their water to soak, so don't worry.
 
I was very excited when I first found poop after getting my little girl. Seems like an odd thing to be excited about but when they do it so infrequently... :shrugs:

You haven't said how big the dish is, but don't worry about the dish or his drinking. Mine just barely puts the end of her mouth in the water to drink. A corn up to 30" long could probably manage happily with a water dish 2" in diameter if they had to, though bigger certainly doesn't hurt. It was well over a month before I actually saw her drink.

If it gets to the point where he looks like he's got the poop in him but he just won't poop it out you could try letting him go for a swim. Putting a corn in shallow water (not deep enough that he has to swim and within the same temp range recommended for keeping corns) will usually induce pooping. It shouldn't be necessary, and defintely shouldn't be done regularly, but it worked like a charm the one time I was worried enough.

hope that helps
 
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