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Picking up a pair of rescues, advice?

I feel so retarded. Ok I am getting them Tuesday morning, but I just re-read through all of my contact with her and I made a mathmatical error that is classic me. They are not 4 years old they are THIRTEEN! They hatched in 1997. How long do corn snakes live? All of mine are under 4 so I had not worried about it before. Now my head is spinning a little. 13, wow. The oldest pet I ever had was a black lab adopted from a shelter when she was 7 she died at 11. Any special care beyond the diet and exercise I should take into consideration?
 
If it makes you feel better, I have a 22 year old corn I got on Craigslist for $20 a while back. He's in terrible shape. I should call him Humpback instead of Socrates. As far as I know, I don't think there is any special consideration you should take with them. I'm no expert though.
 
The good news is that they should have a longer life than a canine would...20-25 years on average. So at least ya have several years to enjoy them. Kudos to you for rescuing them. :cheers:
 
22? 20-25? Wow. . .I am seeing my other snakes in a new light now. Thank you for the info. If you could hear me speak these words rather than read them my voice would be soft with awe and new found respect on a higher level than I had for them before. Wow. . .
 
I'm glad she realized it wasn't fair to ask anyone to pay her for snakes in poor health. I have advised her to sell the setup to get some money back from the investment and I will be quarantining the pair in my room in tubs then when my rack-thing is completed they will be put in their own spots in it along with my 08 Amel and my 09 Ghost.
 
Look at it this way, carnivorouszoo (sorry I can't remember your name! it's been a long day...) -- at least, however long they have, they will live comfortable lives with proper care. I have adopted several geriatricats knowing I wouldn't have them long, a few years at most, and NEVER been sorry. Sad when the time came, but not sorry. I adopted a little stray I found, took him straight to the vet and was told he was 15 years old or older and had bad kidneys. I had him 9 months before he died in his sleep. He died warm, safe, loved, with the best care I could possibly give, instead of dying on the street. It was enough.

You could have these guys another 10 years, with luck and blessings from your higher power. It's worth it. Good for you for taking them!
 
They're here!

And the female doesn't seem as bad as the photos made her look. Plus its just fat, no sign of eggs at all. :dancer: Thursday marks 2 weeks since they last ate, I decided at the beginning of this month to start weighing, photographing, measuring and evaluating my snakes the first of each month. Then using that info to decide feeder size, frequency of feeding, and mapping out a schedule to handle everyone. This works out with my feeding everyone on the first and then by the schedule I draw up each month, so Thursday I will feed these two a hopper each. Maybe fuzzy. They will be fed 2-3 times a month and handled a lot to help them get healthy.

The male is close to 5 feet long and weighed in at 963 grams. The female is closer to 4 feet 6 inches and weighs in 693 grams. The male does not look as bad as the female, but they both need work.

Thing is I am unsure what a healthy weight might be for them. So, how do I know they are at a good weight?

Here are the pics I took of them before setting them up in their new seperate vivs. Amel is the male and is an Amel het Anery, the female is a Snow. I know the male is het anery because the lady I got them from said all of their babies have been just like the two of them. The male's name is Ixxi and the female is Issis.
 

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I'll keep feeling her, but at this time I feel no eggs, she is not as fat as feared either, I can feel the pressure of my individual fingers through her as I check for eggs, when I first saw her I thought there would be so much fat that I wouldn't be able to do that. Trust she will be watched.
 
As for the healthy gram size, I think you should just watch to see when they are proportionate to their lengths. I don't think you can really say "This snake should be 500 grams and this one 600 grams." Your best bet is to get them to slowly drop the weight and see where they settle on adult mice, when ready. This is my educated guess anyway. Pretty good, huh?
 
As far as how much should they weight, here's my thought...You know how with people, much of the time we don't say, "I have to weigh ***". It's more like "I want to look good and fit into a size ** again"? I believe that's the analogy you can apply to these two. I think both are definitely going to lose a good amount of fat and tone up, but of course it's going to take a bit of time. Even if the female ends up with 'hips' as a deformity so to speak (I learned that about my 'hip-y' snake from Kathy Love), she'll be in much better physical condition than she is now!

I think this is a win-win situation all around.
 
:D deffinitely win win. Thee girl passed as egg free at the vets and parasite free for both. The male is out of hiding right now and the girl was out last night looking around. I do worry about them escaping though, they are huge, not just in the way of fat either, never seen such long snakes (I live a sheltered life lol)! They got out of the travel bin on the way home even though I had it clamped so I have like 10 lbs of flour on top of their stacked tubs lol. A multi size rack is in the works!
 
I'd love to see an update with pix on how these 2 rescues are doing...hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge :p
 
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