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undigested pinkies

I can tell you without a doubt that 4 yearlings in a 20g high is not enough room and 4 hatchlings in a 10g is not enough room. In Europe, they commanly cohab and do it successfully BUT they are in HUGE enclosures or vivs.

Personally, my yearlings are house in seperater 20g long. My hatchlings all have their very own 10g. I do not have stressed out snakes. Nor do I have repeated health problems or any snakes that have a failure to thrive or properly digest their food. They all have UTH on thermostats with correct temps. 85 on the hot side and 70-75 on the cool side. They all have a water bowl, 2 hides (one for cold and one for hot) They also have toliet paper or paper towel rolls as hides for in between. I have had 3 regures from 3 different snakes, 1 was because I feed a prey item slightly too big, 1 was I feed right before they went in blue and the last is from a tiny baby I saved from a cohabbing nightmare with horrible husbandary, incorrect temps and humidity and underfed.

However, I did do my research for a year before we started keeping corns. I also joined this site and began devouring all the information I could. I also take any sick animal to the vet immediately. I do have other rescued snakes that have come in to my care from cohabbing nightmares as well. So speaking from experiences from someone who has rescued this snakes and nursed them back to health. I would seperate your snakes immediately. Stress can kill your snakes and I would rather not risk the life of mine out pure ignorances. JMHO
 
When you buy an animal, you promise it food, shelter, and healthcare. For LIFE. You aren't willing to take a $15 snake to the vet for frear of a $300 vet bill? I hope you never have kids.

Also, I hope your corns don't eat each other because of how hungry they are.
 
We separated them all into their own tanks and after they were fed, 3 days later, we had found what looked like a pinky partially digested. We also have a 10 gallon, two 20 gallon long, 20 gallon high, and 55 gallon tanks. We had planned to move them into bigger tanks very soon.
 
Yes, they have proper adequate heat. As stated before their are 4 snakes all together, same ages who all except for the one are completely fine. None of them have attacked the other since they were first taken out. I believe they were hungry since after they ate they have not done this since and we have had them for over 2 months. This snow was like this before we got it, it passed a pinky the vendor had fed it before we bought it. So, that leads us to believe it CAME with whatever is wrong with it. I WOULD be willing to take it to a vet if we had one that would treat it. However we don't.

If the snow came that way, you have no clue what came with it and now all the other snakes that are housed with him could be exposed to something that could killed them and make them die a slow miserable death just like it seems this snow is doing.

There are so horrible diseases and parasites out there.

I am sorry I can't help you or give your anymore information than I already have.
 
First of all we have 4 WONDERFUL kids! Also, we love our snakes and are concerned for them that's WHY we got on here and are asking! They all eat EVERY WEEK quite hefty meals at that!!! Did you not see the further posts about NOT HAVING A VET HERE THAT WILL DEAL WITH A CORN SNAKE!?? Please do NOT ever question my ability to take care of our kids! I didn't get on here and bad mouth you for asking a flipping question that we were just looking for advice on. Hoping that someone else may have ran into the same problem!!
 
If the snow came that way, you have no clue what came with it and now all the other snakes that are housed with him could be exposed to something that could killed them and make them die a slow miserable death just like it seems this snow is doing.

There are so horrible diseases and parasites out there.

I am sorry I can't help you or give your anymore information than I already have.

Thank you! We will separate them and hope that they all do not get sick!
 
Them being curled up together is a form of fighting. As they are naturally solitary animals, which only come together for breeding in the wild, when they are forced to live in close spaces with another they form dominance behaviors. They sit on each other because they are competing for the best resources in the cage, may that be the best warm spot, or the best hide. If they are always in the same spot, that makes me believe that they are bullying each other in the hopes of moving the weaker ones out of their territory. When I got my very first snakes, my roommate and I cohabbed, not knowing how dangerous it was. I thought that it was cute that Jasper and Elliot were always coiled up together, if I knew then what I do now, I would have realized that Elliot's constant following Jasper and twitching were fighting behaviors. Any time I placed Jasper back in the cage, Elliot would race over and start following him, flicking his tongue all over the body. I am lucky that I didn't end up with dead corns from this.

I did read that you are going to separate yours, which is fantastic! You will probably see a lot of over all improvement in them. I just felt that I should address your question since you asked.
 
We separated them all into their own tanks and after they were fed, 3 days later, we had found what looked like a pinky partially digested. We also have a 10 gallon, two 20 gallon long, 20 gallon high, and 55 gallon tanks. We had planned to move them into bigger tanks very soon.

Are you sure it wasnt a regurge? They can sometimes look like a partially digested pinkie because thats basiclly what they are.

This was a the first regurge that I ever found. It was from feeding a fuzzie that was slightly too big.
regure.jpg
 
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