aSnakeLovinBabe
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I rescued a cornsnake a month or so ago... I have around 100 snakes, but i only had 1.1 corns and 5 eggs incubating before this girly!
Picture this:
A kid about my age (19 or 20) walks into my store, he heard that I keep snakes! He is looking to get rid of his cornsnake.... "it is borning and it just sits there"
Of course I said bring her in. THe next day, I saw him walking towards the store with a ten gallon tank in hand. I was thinking to myself, oh, must be a little guy.
The ten gallon tank was entirely filled up by a big hollow log, and I was stunned to see coiled up inside an adult cornsnake. A 4 foot cornsnake, being housed in a ten gallon tank! He said he had had her for 4 years, raised her from a baby, and fed her "about once every 2 weeks or so".....:realhot:
So he told me after I put her in my bag that he was keeping the tank "because im thinking about getting another snake, one of those milksnakes that looks like a coral snake". That really got under my skin and remembering that I was on the job and that not everyone knows as much about snakes as me held my tongue and said "i dont recommend that, all snakes are every bit as "boring as this one" if you found this one boring the biggest mistake would be to go get another", then I firmly but gently talked to him about what he did wrong in the care of the snake (should have fed every week, snake should have been in a much larger tank, etc) but I also did say to him that despite the cramped conditions and all that the snake seems to be in overall good health and that I was happy to see that the cage and interior was clean, and that he had used a heat source (a lamp) I proceeded to talk him out of another snake, and then he mentioned dart frogs. He ended up going out to a specialty store and getting a complete terrarium setup for dart frogs, thankfully something that will never outgrow a ten gallon...
So over in all, many snakes have had it far worse than this cornsnake here, at least she still has all of her scales and a good weight to her. But, I can tell that she was never handled, at all, she is extremely wiggly! I can tell she is not usd to the stimulation of a larger enclosure... she doesn't come out much yet.
So, welcome to a better home, Cornhole!
(the kid was amazed when I called her beautiful, he thought she was the ugliest snake he's ever seen
)
I was unaware that cornsnakes could have fluorescent orange stomachs until now... how is this inherited?
Picture this:
A kid about my age (19 or 20) walks into my store, he heard that I keep snakes! He is looking to get rid of his cornsnake.... "it is borning and it just sits there"
Of course I said bring her in. THe next day, I saw him walking towards the store with a ten gallon tank in hand. I was thinking to myself, oh, must be a little guy.
The ten gallon tank was entirely filled up by a big hollow log, and I was stunned to see coiled up inside an adult cornsnake. A 4 foot cornsnake, being housed in a ten gallon tank! He said he had had her for 4 years, raised her from a baby, and fed her "about once every 2 weeks or so".....:realhot:
So he told me after I put her in my bag that he was keeping the tank "because im thinking about getting another snake, one of those milksnakes that looks like a coral snake". That really got under my skin and remembering that I was on the job and that not everyone knows as much about snakes as me held my tongue and said "i dont recommend that, all snakes are every bit as "boring as this one" if you found this one boring the biggest mistake would be to go get another", then I firmly but gently talked to him about what he did wrong in the care of the snake (should have fed every week, snake should have been in a much larger tank, etc) but I also did say to him that despite the cramped conditions and all that the snake seems to be in overall good health and that I was happy to see that the cage and interior was clean, and that he had used a heat source (a lamp) I proceeded to talk him out of another snake, and then he mentioned dart frogs. He ended up going out to a specialty store and getting a complete terrarium setup for dart frogs, thankfully something that will never outgrow a ten gallon...
So over in all, many snakes have had it far worse than this cornsnake here, at least she still has all of her scales and a good weight to her. But, I can tell that she was never handled, at all, she is extremely wiggly! I can tell she is not usd to the stimulation of a larger enclosure... she doesn't come out much yet.
So, welcome to a better home, Cornhole!
(the kid was amazed when I called her beautiful, he thought she was the ugliest snake he's ever seen
)I was unaware that cornsnakes could have fluorescent orange stomachs until now... how is this inherited?
