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shedding

sherry

snake girl
its me with more questions. i been trying to get in the chat room but my laptop wont handle it for more then 3 mins. my questionn is how oftern do they shed. i had my baby for 2 months now and it seems like she grew i give her 2 pinkys every 7 days and nothing no shed no blue fase or anything she looks dimmer when she eats but i think thats just her tummy full of mice what do i do what am i doing wrong. im a begginer and dont no what im doing besides loving my little baby
 
is there any way to tell what kind of snake you have and the safest way to sex one to know the sex of one. my sister gave me her cuz it wouldnt stop b5t5ng her and it went t6 fast for her. and its a cornsnake i just dont no what kind and she had hers for a week and it already shed but i had mine for 2 months and nothing its agervating what am i doing wrong.
 
im 16 why do i sound that dumb asking questions. i was wondering cuz i never had a snake and i dont no if im doing something wrong and if i am i would like to no so i can fix it
 
Your posts are just very hard to read because you dont use proper words. When you use "no" instead of "know" it makes for difficult reading, etc etc.

Anyway, your snake hasnt shed for 2 months? And it's a hatchling? I dont know what to say there, I've got a pair that are over a year old and they both shed at least once every 2 months.

Perhaps you should feed your snake a pinkie every 3-4 days or step it up to a very small fuzzy every 7, just a thought. Also, you cant tell the sex of a snake just looking at it, they have to be probed and that should only be done by someone know whows what they're doing. You dont have a need for knowing what sex your two corns are right now, so I wouldn't worry about it.

If you want to know what kind of corn you have, go to www.cornsnake.net and scroll though the pictures. I'd assume you have something simple, either Amel, Anery, normal, snow...something along those lines.

I'd also suggest going out and getting a corn snake book, say "The Corn Snake Manual" by the Loves because you've got a lot of questions and you'd be better off reading them from a few books instead of just asking people questions. It's obvious that these are your first snakes and you need to do some reading--something you honestly should have done before getting your snakes.
 
I would say every 5 days. 3 days is a bit short seeing at it takes 3/4 days before the whole pinkie is digested. So that would mean he'd be only digesting feeding after feeding. 7 is possible, but indeed a bit thin.

How big is your snake, and how big is the bulge inside the snake after he ate a pinkie? You may want to move up to peach fuzzies as they are more nutricious then pinkies.
 
im sorry I will use better spelling so that its clear what I am saying. I have read the "corn snake manual" by the loves, and been on the net doing research and asking my brother in law question. and yes my brother in law has had snakes all his life and has been hard getting a hold of for me to ask questions, so I thought I would ask here I didn't no I would be told to read a book and do research before getting the snake (which is what I did). and you have to do a lot more then read a book you have to see if you even like them. I am guessing she's about 9 inches. not to big. I tried her with a peach fuzzy she vomited it up it was to big. I called a pet store (has vets there and people who have and had snakes all their lives) for advise and they said it was most likely to big for the baby and I took it in there earlier today they said it was a girl and looks really healthy and they don't know why she's not shedding. to keep feeding her pinkies next time try 3 since she's is still to skinny for anything bigger. they also said my other snake is a healthy male, and he to is healthy. and I wanted to know there sexes because its nice to know and I was wondering. and thanks for the site. I never new there were so many different kinds. I ordered a butter one but got a amel, but I love her so im happy.
thanks so much for the helpfull advise
 
rippit, be nice. Don't make me go get my whistle. ;)

5 days is perfect. He's really small, so 7 would probably be too long. A peach fuzzy is WAY too big for a 9 inch corn snake. Stick with pinkies for another couple months at least.
 
I would agree with Spirit. I'm feeding my hatchlings every 5 days, and they're all bigger than yours. I have them all on pinkies and they're doing pretty good on those. I find my larger snakes shed about once a month, but I suspect these babies will shed more often than that. I've only had them a couple of weeks and they've all shed once. I'll see how often after I've had them a while.
 
what if my snake takes longer to digest. the lump doesnt go away for like 3 days and after that i dont hold her till she poops cuz i dont wanna hurt her with a bone or anything but its hard not to hold her when she crawls up in your hand when you put ur hand in the cage. and what is a moss box and i just added plants to her cage wich she absoluty loves, shes been all up in them all day long. anywho i fed her 4 days ago yet she still has stuff in her, you can see it cuz u can see right through her when u put her up to a light. whats weird is when something out side her cage moves she strikes it and bashed her face on the glass but when im inside the cage she all over me but she strikes and anything eles in the cage and dont like my brothers. what does this mean. she strikes everything but me, is she pmsing and wont bite her momma or what
 
It's possible that you're seeing fecal matter and not actually undigested food in there. 3 days shold be more than enough time for holding especially if she's out and cruising around.
 
Carefull with the glass banging there. I've heard stories of snakes breaking their jaws on the glass. You wouldn't want that to happen.
 
sherry said:
what if my snake takes longer to digest. the lump doesnt go away for like 3 days

I haven't seen you describe your setup yet. Do you have a proper temperature gradient with a warm area to facilitate digestion? A "possible" cause for what you are describing (slow growth, regurges, slow digestion etc...) is a snake that is being kept at too low a temperature.

There should be a nice comfy hide in an area that stays at around 85 degress. Your snake should be heading straight for it after snacking on a pinkie, and staying there for a day or two until the meal is digested.

Hope this helps shed some light on your problem (no pun intended :rolleyes: ).

Scott
 
Sherry, You will also be able to see the liver of the snake, it looks like a black mass, she will shed when she is ready so try not to worry too much. It sounds like you are doing everything right for your little guy.
 
her cage seem ok, the temps are 80-85 in the day i have a heat lamp and a under the cage heater. i never turn off the under cage one but at night i turn off the heat lamp. she has a hide on the cold side, in the middle, and on the warm side, after eating she get water and there's a log in the middle of the cage and she curls up in front of it she doesn't like her hides she's always out in the open and she's been playing all up in the plant i put in there and i found her sleeping on a leaf it was so adorable if i still had my camera i would have taken a pic. most of the time she sleeps sprawled out in the middle of her take she only curls up after feeding. and i fixed her nose bashing. i got a new computer desk and took apart my old one and used it to block in the sides so she cant see anything. she's a different snake though, she cant kill, and she don't like anyone but me and so on. would the pinky have more nutrition if it wasnt frozen or not. cuz she only eats frozen what about one of those snake steaks sausages, would they have what she needs. she's to dinky for a fuzzy or anything bigger then the smallest pinky. and i have 100 frozen pinky so i have a lot, and should i try 3 cuz she's like 9 inches and really tinny around, but she's growing and what im happy about she is darkening up the red is showing on her a little i have to get a camera to post a pic.
 
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yesterday i feed her 3 pinkies it was 5 days, and she ate them so darn fast and all three of them and now she streched out next to the glass in front of the tank. has anyone tried the snake steak sausages? i waqs thinging about those,cuz arnt they grown up audult mice.
 
feedin' yer baby

when my Maizie was littler i started her/him on F/T pinkies..s/he stayed pretty skinny...& couldn't handle fuzzies...the 1s we got @ the pet store were too big 4 her & we had 2 cut them up (ewww)....so i stuck w/ pinkies...s/he was all the way up to 12 pinkies @ a feeding.!!!!..b-4 i could move her/him up 2 fuzzies...(now s/he eat 5 of those!)..listen 2 yer gut feelings 4 wat is best 4 yer baby!...& different places will have different sizes of pinkies & fuzzies...GOOD LUCK! :crazy02:

ps: i'v read in other threads on this site that those snake sausages are BAD!
 
do all snakes go through the blue phase, because when i left to work this morning slinky was very dark in color, when i got home 11 hours later shed dull color and very light colored opistie from this morning and only within 11 hours. i never seen her like this. is she sedding or is she sick.and out rubbing and then sleeping. but why is this a sudden thing or what
 
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