These lipomas are QUITE common in captive bred corn snakes, or in some strains of captive bred corn snakes. I’ve always assumed it was genetic, but who knows? Perhaps feeding too heavily at a certain period of their lives starts the process off. It helps somewhat to feed these snakes only in moderation, but, regardless, these benign fatty tumors will never go away. The overgrowths on the spine you describe are something entirely unrelated, I think.



One of my old corn snakes surprised me with a clutch of 27 infertile eggs in August (I don’t think she’s ever been with a male during her lifetime). Although she lost one third of her body weight and looked gaunt, the lipoma near her tail was still obvious, though a little shrunken in size.



-Joan

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• Corn snake with apparent adipose deposits - Colchicine, Mon Nov 3 19:08:36 2003
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