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What is the most natural setting for corns?
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Carpe Serpentis
Hybrid Snake Lover
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Facts/FactSheets/Cornsnake.cfm
"DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT:
Corn snakes are found in the eastern United States from southern New Jersey south through Florida, west into Louisiana and parts of Kentucky. However, corn snakes are most abundant in Florida and the southeastern U.S.
Corn snakes may be found in wooded groves, rocky hillsides, meadowlands, woodlots, barns, and abandoned buildings.
DIET IN THE WILD:
Corn snakes do not usually feed every day instead they feed every few days. Young hatchlings tend to feed on lizards and tree frogs, while adults feed on larger prey, such as mice, rats, birds, and bats. They are constrictors. First a corn snake bites the prey in order to obtain a firm grip, then it quickly wraps one or more coils of its body around the victim. The snake squeezes tightly until it suffocates the prey. Then it swallows the food whole, usually head first. However, corn snakes have also been observed swallowing small prey alive.
ZOO DIET:
They are fed mice, rats, and chicks." Hope this helps.
"DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT:
Corn snakes are found in the eastern United States from southern New Jersey south through Florida, west into Louisiana and parts of Kentucky. However, corn snakes are most abundant in Florida and the southeastern U.S.
Corn snakes may be found in wooded groves, rocky hillsides, meadowlands, woodlots, barns, and abandoned buildings.
DIET IN THE WILD:
Corn snakes do not usually feed every day instead they feed every few days. Young hatchlings tend to feed on lizards and tree frogs, while adults feed on larger prey, such as mice, rats, birds, and bats. They are constrictors. First a corn snake bites the prey in order to obtain a firm grip, then it quickly wraps one or more coils of its body around the victim. The snake squeezes tightly until it suffocates the prey. Then it swallows the food whole, usually head first. However, corn snakes have also been observed swallowing small prey alive.
ZOO DIET:
They are fed mice, rats, and chicks." Hope this helps.
Alli_Draggy
Wadjet's family
They also live in Tennessee. I would reccomend things like ears of Indian corn to give a natural feel, or, if you have space, putting a small house plant in the terrarium.
Allidraggy
Carpe Serpentis
Hybrid Snake Lover
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=534040656614097&set=a.534036926614470.125255.100000245021281&type=3&theater
Here is a helpful distribution map if you want to know ranges.
Here is a helpful distribution map if you want to know ranges.
BSLMichael
Below Sea Level Reptiles
If you want natural, I suggest you look at the appalachian forests The apps cover most of the corn snakes' natural ranges. So a forest setting based off the forests at the base of the apps would be the best call imo.
Corn Snakes can occupy a wide range of habitats, but like many snakes, they prefer clearings. They need sunlight for thermoregulation and fields (as well as other types of clearings) can hold large rodent populations.
About 20 years ago I was camping at a spot near Daytona Beach. My buddy and I were driving and saw a Gopher Tortoise, so we got out of the car to photograph it. As we were getting back in the car, a strange noise was heard further down the road. We decided to investigate. The sound was coming from a rat that this Corn Snake was constricting.
So even an "open area" created by a road can be suitable habitat.
About 20 years ago I was camping at a spot near Daytona Beach. My buddy and I were driving and saw a Gopher Tortoise, so we got out of the car to photograph it. As we were getting back in the car, a strange noise was heard further down the road. We decided to investigate. The sound was coming from a rat that this Corn Snake was constricting.
So even an "open area" created by a road can be suitable habitat.
Chip
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒ&
The Midwest is one place barely encroached upon by wild corns. I have caught corns from the marshlands of Georgia to the Appalachian mountains, as well as flatland covered in pine trees. They truly adapt to a wide range of conditions, and I'm surprised released pets haven't started populations on the west coast. I can say this much about them though, the vast majority I caught or spotted in the day time were under something! Tin really works wonders if you have property in corn snake country to lay it out on. Might take a year or two, but they'll find it -and keep coming back.