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what happens if your tank is "too small"

It is kinda hard to tell if it is stressing sometimes.

What size tank do you have and how big is your snake?
 
It is hard to tell his size from the pic. But, I think a 10 gallon is fine for him now. You have nothing to worry about. :)

Save up your money. In the next 4-6 months, you should probably get him a 20 gallon (preferably a 20 gallon long)
 
any way to tell its stressing??
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Main signs of stress are any changes to their usual behaviour. Things like:

- Reliable eaters going off their food.
- Normally sedate snakes spending a lot of time "patrolling" their tank.
- Normally very active snakes spending a lot of their time hidden away.
- Increased frequency of shedding.
- Muscle tone/behaviour when you pick them up:
* A snake that normally feels quite toned and alert, suddenly being more limp or acting disinterested.
* A snake that normally seems very relaxed and disinterested when handled, suddenly starts to tense up.

You have to be able to tell routine signs (e.g. hiding away before a shed) from unusual changes.

To detect any of these symptoms does mean that you need to know what's normal for each of your Corns in the first place. They can vary tremendously in their preferences and habits. This doesn't really take much work (my 15 adults are handled once a fortnight and I know them well enough to spot a problem brewing), but it can take a couple of years to really get your head round the seasonal norms.
 
It is important that the snake should be able to straighten out at least once a day. Snakes kept in cages that are too small often develop permanent kinks in their spine. This can become extreme enough that it can actually be passed on genetically.

This is what happened in the case of the lavender morph. In the 60's we didn't know as much about snakes and captive husbandry as we do now. As the lavender morph was being developed the number of snakes involved became numerous. To accommodate the number of snakes, many otherwise adequate cages were divided in half so they could hold two snakes. Almost all of them developed kinked spines. We didn't realize until several generations later that the trait had carried over into the offspring.

At about that same time some breeders were working on a Lilac colored morph. They chose not to divide their cages but allowed the snakes to cohabitate instead. All of those snakes were cannibalized (except for one) and that blood line was lost all together.
 
Sorry Wade, but a physical characteristic aquired due to environment cannot be passed on in the genes, unless there's a genetic basis for that characteristic, which is then expressed because of the environment.
 
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I'm sorry, I guess I should have been more plain. That was meant to be a joke. I understand that being really cold will not actually make your children eskimos.:rofl::laugh01::roflmao::D
 
when i first got him.. as a baby..

i handled him alot and learned that i should of left him alone in the tank for a few days..


so i did..

and then i fed him.. then he shedded.. so i havent handled him because of that..

and now when i pick him up he trys to run from me =[


is this normal?
 
Depends what you mean by chill with you. Yes eventually as the snake gets older it will become more used to you and to being handled you should be able to handle easily with no fuss. If by chill with you, you mean hanging out together then no.
 
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