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First of all can somone post a picture of an average size adult next to somthing for scale? Thanks. I was working with my corns today and I put Prince my male in with Casper my female and sat back and abserved. First prince got real jerky??????? I am sorry but jerky for lack of a better term, Isnt that mating behavoir? NExt casper did the same thing. After Princes whole body was on the ground "I put him on her log" she proceeded to flee to the other end of the cage but to no avail, Prince folowed her starting with his head on top of her tail and runing up her back folowing her cerves with his body exactly. It is at that time I seporated them as I was sure this was mating behavoir and well as you all know they are not old enough yet. Thanks for the help.
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First of all can somone post a picture of an average size adult next to somthing for scale? Thanks. I was working with my corns today and I put Prince my male in with Casper my female and sat back and abserved. First prince got real jerky??????? I am sorry but jerky for lack of a better term, Isnt that mating behavoir? NExt casper did the same thing. After Princes whole body was on the ground "I put him on her log" she proceeded to flee to the other end of the cage but to no avail, Prince folowed her starting with his head on top of her tail and runing up her back folowing her cerves with his body exactly. It is at that time I seporated them as I was sure this was mating behavoir and well as you all know they are not old enough yet. Thanks for the help.

Here is a comparison photo for you ....hope it helps. That is an "average" size ghost corn.
Twitching is a normal mating behavior; you should leave them together for a day or so and then remove the female. Wait another day or so and re-introduce the female again for a day or so. Once you put the female in with the male leave them alone.

Hope this helps.

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Jim
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Arnt they to young though? The are from an 05 litter. The male only comes in at 71g I dont thionk I should leave them in together at all LOL Thanks for the comparison shot.
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Ok, either I missed it or you failed to mention they were 05 offspring.
I recommend you get the corn snake manual by the Loves.
A great book for beginners.
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Jim
Home Grown Herps

Yikes! Definitely keep them seperated until the female is big enough to breed! That's waaay too young and way too small to be breeding any corn.

-Kat
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Here is my '02 butter male being held by my 4 year old son.
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1.0 het albino ball
1.0 norm ball
0.3 norm ball
0.1 snow corn
1.0 butter corn
1.0 norm corn
1.0 southern plains rat
1.0 striped Cali king
1.0 western hog

Visual Morphs?....I love the normal looks. You can't improve on nature, you can only produce "interesting deviations".

OH NO not another spiderman? My 3yo is crasy about spider man he he heee Niuce looking snake, thanks for the shot.
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That is normal mating behavior. Sounds like your female was not ready (as you said she is too young). Males are ready at a younger age than females.
I am no expert, though
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We are the people our parents warned us about!

2.1.2 bearded dragons
0.1.1 water dragons
2.4.5 leopard geckos
15.22.0 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
5.2.0 king snakes
1.0.0 royal (Ball) pythons
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
0.1.0 rat snake
1.1.0 Leucistic rat snakes
0.0.2 prairie ringneck snakes
0.1.0 chilean rose hair tarantula
1.1.0 emperor scorpions
1.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrots
0.1.0 German Shepherd hybrid dog

That is what I figured, I put them on the scale today and the male came in at 71.10g and the female at 67.10 I know they are to young witch is why I stayed by and observed and removed them before I thought it would be to late to remove them. Thanks for all the info
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