No, you don't need to supplement the mice with anything. If you are breeding your own mice, the best food is rodent blocks, using seed based food is usually just too much fat. Supplementing the mouse food with some veggies every once in a while would be good too.



A snake the size you have "should" be able to eat a full grown mouse. So you know, it should leave a bit of a lump after the snake has eaten it.



Of all the ideas I've have ever heard, the easiest way to kill a mouse is to hit it's head against a wall/counter/etc.



If I were you I would try to get the snake to eat frozen/thawed mice. They are much easier to deal with and no threat to the snake. Remember, live mice can severely injure a snake.



As far as breeding it with something, the best way to get a variety of morphs is to get a normal het for charcoal and het for amelanistic (but this is easier said than done; where I live it's hard to find anything het for more than amelanistic). If you were to pair these 2 types together you could end up with normals, amelanistics, charcoals, and blizzards.


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Current snakes:

1.0 '01 Hypo snow cornsnake (Tesla Coil)

0.1 '02 Ghost (pastel) cornsnake (Banshee)

1.1 '02 Bloodred cornsnakes (Desi and Luci Too)

To be added in Spring:

0.1 '98 Het Hypo, Het Caramel cornsnake

1.0 '00 Hypo Het Caramel cornsnake

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