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Small corns?

sammihood

sammihood

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Ok, so here is my corn, he is 2 and a half years old and somewhere between 1.5 and 2 ft in length. I feel like he is very small for his age, he eats 1 or 2 fuzzies (depending on their size, the one in the picture was 1 of 2) every 7 days, but hasn't really grown much in the past 12 months.

Has anybody experienced anything similar? Is he just naturally a little small or is there something I need to change?


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He does seem small for that age... do you weigh him and gauge his mouse size accordingly? At 2.5 years my snakes were just moving from hoppers to weanlings and they were around 3 feet long.
 
I have been without scales for a little while but I've just picked up some new ones today so will weigh him when I get in
 
He is 174g and currently eating 2 x small fuzzys at 6g each. According to the rough guide chart he should be eating a small adult but I think it might be too wide for him? Would you recommend moving him up the sizes gradually? Thanks for your help
 
I think you could comfortably move up to one good sized hopper or small weanling at this point. You'll be surprised how his mouth can stretch, even though you're not used to seeing it.
 
1.5 times the thickest point of the body. There should be a noticeable bulge from each meal for 2-3 days after feeding.

You can either up the meal size or up the frequency of the fuzzie meals. Increasing frequency might need a bump in temps slightly to elevate metabolism. Multiple, small meals are usually preferred for younger snakes in order to get them off of pinkies and fuzzies.
 
Rigby & Marcy said:
I think you could comfortably move up to one good sized hopper or small weanling at this point. You'll be surprised how his mouth can stretch, even though you're not used to seeing it.
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I agree. Our snake is now about 110g and has been eating hoppers for a while now. They look pretty big next to his tiny head, but he gobbles them down easily. Here's a picture from a couple months ago. Sorry for the crummy cell phone quality, but I think you can get the idea. GL!
 

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I'd say time to up it. My girls is around that age and eats one small adult every two weeks and is 273g. As long as you have some spacing between feedings of a larger sized prey item you should be fine.
 
I agree with everyone, supersize that happy meal!

He is beautiful, what morph is he? I am so bad at the "Name That Morph" game that I am always the last one picked for a team. (Just teasing, but lots of people ask what morph they have and I do try to name it, but I am always wrong!)
 
Popcorn715 said:
I agree. Our snake is now about 110g and has been eating hoppers for a while now. They look pretty big next to his tiny head, but he gobbles them down easily. Here's a picture from a couple months ago. Sorry for the crummy cell phone quality, but I think you can get the idea. GL!
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Popcorn, yours is beautiful too! Again, what morph?
 
Rigby & Marcy said:
I was thinking bubblegum, no?
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Maybe. He was sold to us just as a pink snow (actually motley too, but he isn't). I asked here a while ago, and I don't think there was a consensus really.

I should get some new pics with the real camera now that he's had a few more sheds and gotten so much bigger. Whatever he is, we think he's very pretty too ....thank you!
 
Ok thanks everyone for all your help! I'm off to the shop today to get him some fine dining! I believe Isaac is just a snow... But I could be wrong :)
 
sammihood said:
Ok thanks everyone for all your help! I'm off to the shop today to get him some fine dining! I believe Isaac is just a snow... But I could be wrong :)
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He indeed is a snow and from the looks of it a nice classic one. Out of all the various corn snake morphs out there, I'd probably still have to chalk up snows as my favorite mutation. It's a tough call with a few of the morphs I now keep, but even with those I still find myself drawn to a nice classic snow whether blotched, stripe, or motley.

With the increase in food size, give him a solid week to digest. Do this for a few feedings. If everything seems to be going well, then you can probably safely get away with using slightly smaller versions of the new prey item size and bumping feedings to every 4-5 days. This should get you up to small adults to adult mice in a few months and then you can dial back to once a week feedings.
 
I have also had this issue with Patrick. I noticed at the last expo I went to, other 2.5-3-year-old corns were making him look like a total runt. I don't have a scale, but he's about 3ft and I've been going with the very rough estimate of 1.5 x widest part/bulge for 2-3 days, but feeding multiple (4-5) fuzzies rather than large single items. I suppose I need to up his frequency/number until we clear out his stock of fuzzies, then get him something bigger.

Thanks for posting this thread. It was very helpful.
 
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