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I just picked Athena up yesterday. I was told she's a couple years old.

It's somewhat cool here in Colorado right now and it's difficult to keep the temperature in the house above 70 so I got an under tank heater and it's keeping the temp in there around 75 on the cool side and a bit hotter under the light.

I was also told she's on a diet of one adult mouse once a week. Does that sound about right?
 
Yay, another person from Colorado! I'm in the Colorado/Lakewood area. What a wonderful snake! I know what you mean by the struggles of our Colorado weather. My big struggle is humidity. The temps really help with the UTH and I use a heat lamp on top of the warm section too.

For your snake, that sounds like a good feeding schedule but I'd wait for more experts as I've never dealt with an adult corn before. And welcome to the website!
 
welcome, congrats on the new snake
do you have a thermostat? its definently worth investing in. it will take all the guesswork out of dialing in and maintaning your temps
for feeding weight and schedule, the munson plan is a helpful tool. you will need a kitchen scale or something http://medusa-corns.webs.com/feedingchart.htm
is that break-free in the background? i bet you will like it here, there seems to be a lot of gun folks
 
snakes and ammo in the same picture. Kinda pushin it on the awesome meter, aren't ya?
 
Hey jobs the was the same thing I was thinking ... Don't for get the fishing line too. How much does she weigh? That will help with prey size too . but it sounds about the right size.... Welcome to the forum
 
Oh dear, the Colorado people are here!

Do you have a thermostat on her under tank heater? How are you measuring the temps? When I only had a few snakes and not a whole room dedicated to them the UTH worked just fine to keep the temp properly. I had a little dial thermometer that said it was 60 degrees, but the actual temperature over the UTH was WAY hotter (I didn't know at the time I needed a thermostat / digital thermometer).
I'd say that the lamp is over kill, you should be fine with just the UTH on a thermostat set to 88. Since we're dry out here, the lamp is also going to suck out any and all moisture in the cage. When I used tanks with screen lids I would cover 3/4ths of the lid with plastic wrap to keep moisture and heat in.
 
Gel, don't tell Mark!

We had planned to go back up this season but they cut it short. Next season for sure. My son wants to see the Ducks.
 
One of these days we will have to plan a corn snakes night @ the Avalanche. It could be the Colorado version of Daytona?
 
@ niko, nashville
@ steph, don't they have skateboards in NM? Also, I may have some snakes for you when you come up north
 
He would bring his own skateboard. He thinks Denver has better places to skate. Ooo snakes.. I might have babies if you are like bloodreds LOL
 
Thanks for the replies everyone.

To the person that asked, yeah that's break free lol. Using it now to clean my AR.

I've been taking temp readings with a probe and it's pretty steady around 85 on the hot side and at lowest 70 on cool. She's spending all her time on the cool side though.

Most of the time she's hiding. Is that normal for a brand new snake? I figured she'd take awhile to get used to her surroundings.

I'm going to go out tomorrow and hopefully grab a thermostat and some branches for her to climb around on.
 
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