r/cornsnakes

​I bought a 2-year-old corn snake 3 weeks ago. I fed her 3 days after getting her. A week later, I couldn't wait any longer and wanted to take her out. Even though she was running away from me in the enclosure, I managed to pick her up. However, she was squirming so much in my hands that I was terrified she would fall and escape, so I put her back after just a few seconds.

​Then came the next feeding (a week after the first one). After waiting 3 days for her to digest, I started sitting next to the enclosure with the doors open, just wanting her to get used to my presence. Once, she actually crawled out on her own, but when I slowly stood up to catch her so she wouldn't escape, she panicked and started bolting blindly, so I immediately put her back.

​After the 3rd feeding, I sat twice with my hand resting flat on the substrate. Once, after a few minutes of me staying completely still, she actually came over and booped/sniffed my hand.

​I’ve read tons of websites and read that the fastest way to get a snake used to handling is to just handle them. So today, 3 days after her meal (and after she pooped), I decided to try. I know all the theories in my head—how to scoop them from below, not grab from above, etc.

​But I just couldn't do it. She panicked and bolted so hard. I touched her and tried to pick her up 5 times, but she was just too fast and kept slipping away. Finally, she started rattling her tail like a rattlesnake, so I decided to leave her alone and closed the doors.

​I feel completely helpless. It costs me so much stress because I know I'm stressing her out too. After today's failed attempt, I literally just sat down and cried like a child.

​I don't even know who to ask anymore or what to do. What should my next step be? I want to be able to hold her, and I want her to tolerate me. I know I should probably give her a few days of complete peace now so her stress levels drop, but does anyone have any advice? Could someone give me a step-by-step game plan on how to socialize her, or tell me what I am doing wrong?

After some research, found out my guy didn't have a big enough enclosure. So decided to upgrade him. Unfortunately, it's too big for my creativity.

I don't know what to do with the wires.

I've gotten three different heart bulbs to grasp the temperature gradient but feel like I'm not getting it.

I could just use some guidance please.

Any tips to handle a jumpy baby corn ? I had a cornsnake a while back and he was always really chill, never struck, never squared up. He went missing 2 years ago and I never found him. I now have an 8 week old amel corn, but he's the total opposite. He's jumpy, he hisses and strikes, and he's very jumpy when he's in your hands. Like totally still and then just launches himself forward. I've been bitten by snakes a couple times and it doesn't hurt but it always gives me a fright. Any tips ?

I just got a corn snake from people off of Facebook. They didn't understand the feeding schedule and fed it every 2 weeks. Super pale though. Is it hungry or is it shedding?

Never thought it would happen to us, but this guy escaped. My wife has new baby brain exhaustion and forgot to lock his cage. i found out by screaming like a little girl when I got up to get a drink in the middle of the night,and in the pitch dark as I reached into the fridge he launched himself out from under the fridge to constrict around, and attempt to eat my leg. Shame him. At least his violent tendencies made him easy to catch I guess. (He has been to an exotic vet about his aggression and after thousands in testing the conclusion was, he's just an asshole)

Hey everyone, I adopted this beauty a few weeks ago. The person I adopted her from said she’s been feeding her fuzzies still because she didn’t want her to get too big too quickly.

From everything I’ve read, I think she’d be okay to go up to hoppers. She is currently acting hungry just about every other day so she’s really going through a lot of fuzzies.

Athena is approximately 7 years old and I’d say she’s between 3-4 feet long.

Hey I bought this corn baby and forgot what morph is he. I only remember that he has 3 genes.

About week and a half ago I bringed home a corn snake (male, 8 m.o.), I am wondering if it will take a long time for him to see me as not danger. I'm trying to put my hand in his terrarium, give him my smell, also I'm the one who feeds him. And as a corn snake he is constantly trying to find tiniest gaps to crawl through.

If you have any ideas or could share your stories about "taming" snakes (especially corn snakes) it would be awesome.

I got this corn snake a little over a week ago. What more do we think he is? Also, how do I find out if it is a boy or a girl?

Hi, first time cornsnake mom, he is around 10 months old.

I have a bioactive enclosure with purple dwarf isopods, springtails, soil mites, and never had that problem before.

For the past couple days, I’ve been having really small (less than half a milliliter) thin bug that seems to have multiples legs. They are dark greyish and they seem ton float and move on water.

I change the water every time I see them but now it’s kinda all the time… I don’t know if they fall from somewhere or if they jump… they just appear !

I had fungus gnats at some point but I don’t know what this bug is and I’m really concern for my snake.

Video of the said bug. Thanks.

Hi, our cat brought flees in a week or so ago and we need to spray the room the snake lives in to get rid of them. I'm worried about her being in the room with the spray as it takes a few hours to take full affect and disappear. We've still got her old tank that we can move a lot easier but we don't have any more bedding for it. She'd only be in there for 2-3 hours before being put back in her Viv but I don't know what to do. Do I leave her in the Viv? Do I put a towel in her old tank with something to hide under? Do I put her in without the towel? Please help I'm quite stressed about this.

She's about 3'8" and 5 years old if that's ok any help

I'm having a hard time deciding on a snake. My son wants a snake for his upcoming 9th birthday and I've always wanted one since I was a kid, but have never had one. He initially wanted a ball python after holding one at a birthday party. But I had been considering a corn snake. 

What we think we like about a python: that they get thick and heavy, that they just chill. 

What we think we like about a corn: more active (we like the idea of movement in our hands and such), more diurnal, requires not as much humidity as a ball (I think).

Once it is situated we intend to handle it daily and I understand BPs to be nocturnal so I worry about disturbing it during the day. I also worry about keeping the humidity up because we have a glass enclosure with a mesh top.

The picture is what we've got going on right now. Still trying to figure out how to stabilize it. 

Plants are live pothos and snake plants in topsoil/sand/coconut loam with catappa leaf litter. We are considering going more bioactive but I haven't invested in bugs yet. A month ago I did throw in a bunch of wild rolly pollies from my garden (which I've read is frowned upon, but they seem fine and healthy).

Humidity is stuck around 53%, but I have yet to try putting cardboard or duct tape across the mesh to keep it in. 

I have 2 govee thermometer/hygrometers.

Cool side is at 76°F and warm side is at 81°F, which don't seem ideal to me. I also have a dimming thermostat with a probe and where the probe hangs (over the slate rock) the probe says it's at 89°. 

One of the domes is an infrared heat projector the other is just a red lamp I had already had just trying to see if it keeps the heat up. 

I also have a UVA/UVB lamp but it's not turned on in the picture because as I understand it it's just for basking not heat (?) so I don't want to run it without a creature in. 

There's also a grow light in a lamp above the whole thing but that's mostly for the plants.

The tank is on the floor, which I read wasn't great because snakes feel vibrations, but it's on the ground floor of a concrete slab and on heavily padded carpet in a low traffic room. 

I'm waiting on another hide to come in and a "swimming pool" to put in the cool side corner. 

I also have sphagnum moss to add, but I was waiting till closer to when we get a snake. 

Main Questions: 

What do I need to modify?

What snake would you personally recommend to me and my son, considering that we will probably never get a second? (So we're locking in for the next 20ish years.)

There is an expo coming up in our area next week, but is MorphMarket a safe place to buy?

jimmy is 2 years, 9 months old. 130 grams. i got him about exactly a year ago.

he is small. i see people post their corn snakes here that are much, much larger at this age. i know that it differs from snake to snake, similar to height in people, but jimmy is Little.

i feed him regularly (each 7-10 days) and weigh each mouse he is provided, aiming for close to 15% of his weight. i’m well-researched and particular about his care so i’m not concerned about that.

i’m mostly curious, does anyone just have a very small corn snake? perchance, he was a runt of the litter? might he be a late bloomer or will he be a little guy forever?

no matter what i love my little jimmy

New corn snake owner help with temperature and humidity I’m struggling with keeping temps up in my enclosure? I have my tiny baby corn snake in a 10 gallon with a backside heating lap and an Che bulb overhead using a mesh metal screen ? She comes on Tuesday afternoon just trying to make sure i have the right temps and humidity as I’ve seen some confusing numbers

First 2 photos were from the day I got her, last 3 slides are from the past few weeks!

I’ve had her for going on 2 years now. I think it’s gotten a hell of a lot better!