Hi. I'm no expert but have 3 corns my self. I house my bigger corns in 20 gallon long tanks. My baby zig-zag I started in a 5 gallon size and she is now in a 10 gallon. You don't want to big of an enclosure when they are so small. They can get 'lost' in it and sometimes won't feed. Some folks use a shoe box size.

I have her on that green carpet stuff then paper towels over that. She loves to hide under the paper towels plus it absorbes the waist matter better.

Hide boxes are very good. Mine love paper towel rolls.

In my opinion they don't really need all that lighting. I don't know where you live but here in arizona it don't get so cold to have to worry about to much extra heat sorce. I just have UTH's on my bigger corns and even then they tend to stay on the cooler side alot. I took their lights off since they hid all the time. Now my bigger ones come out more in the day.

Feeding once a week sound right although I feed my baby sometimes every 5-6 days. F/T is the best since you don't have to worry about the pray turning into the predator and doing damage to your snake. It does happen.

If you don't already have it get the 'Corn Snake Manuel' by Kathy Love. Great book. Enjoy your new baby. :0)

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