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jeloyo
at Fri Dec 5 08:50:59 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jeloyo ]
Hi! I'm new to the group, and although I'm not new to herps, I'm new to snakes. Although we've had an iguana, and still have a mating pair of bearded dragons and a mali uromastyx, we just recently acquired a red rat snake (same as corn snake?) at a local pet store.
The sales person said that the snake was eating approximately one pinky/fuzzy once a week. We bought ones of the similar size that the snake was used to eating.
We have now tried for three weeks to feed him, but with no results. He has not eaten in the three weeks that we have had him, and we're not sure if we should be worried or not.
He is approximately 29" long, and we have him in a 20L gallon tank. He has an undertank heater and a light on one end of the tank, and the other end of the tank is his cool spot. The light gets turned off at night, although the heater is on 24/7.
I know that our lizards have slowed their eating patterns during these cooler months (we live in Wisconsin), but they still eat SOMETHING (just not as much as they do the other months of the year).
At what point should we begin to worry if our snake doesn't begin to eat? Also, does anyone have any tips as to how we can get our snake to feed?
Oh, and one more question -- the pet store said the snake we purchased was a red rat snake. When I did research on-line, it seems that rat snakes and corn snakes are used interchangably. Are rat snakes and corn snakes the same, or different?
Thanks, in advance, for your responses!
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 Snake isn't feeding... - jeloyo, Fri Dec 5 08:50:59 2003
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