If he is drinking often from his water dish, then it may very well be dehydration. Also, is the water dish large enough for him to soak his whole body in? Spraying with water would probably be stressful for him. Corns in the wild probably seek shelter during rain & storms. Maybe they drink the water that pools up afterwards but I don't see the same behavior with my corns as I do with my green tree pythons for instance...so spraying would not be a suitable source for them to obtain H2O.



I probably should have read up on this , but like I said it was a birthday present...so it was a suprise. I love snakes...in fact I'm going for a zoology degree right now. But I just haven't learned all that much about snakes yet. Just what I've watched on animal planet and national geographic channel.

- I have taken undergraduate herpetology courses AND those still don't give you the knowledge of how to properly care for them in the wild. I would invest in Kathy Love's Corn Snake Manual as its corn snake 101 for answering any and all ?'s you'll have.



P.S. is probing the only way to sex corn snakes? Or the short tail = female thing work with them?...I always popped the hemipenes when I bred awhile back, but that only works for hatchlings so I would either have it probed by someone who knows how to do it correctly OR try to use the tail method, which is not the best but who cares if its only a pet and its not going to be used for breeding. In Kathy's book, it explains how to sex by looking at the tail. I have always just trusted the people I buy from. It will be their loss if they screw me b/c I'll never buy from them again if I put two corns together and both are males! Of course, mistakes happen BUT what are the chances that someone makes a mistake and gives you a female when you request a male? LOL
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