i want buy a corn snake but i want to know if corns produce the smelly urine like garters snakes do.
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Fla
Oct 28, 2006 05:28 PM
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xblackheart
Oct 28, 2006 08:44 PM
its called musk. All snakes produce it to my knowledge. Corns hardly ever use it and when they do, it does not smell anywhere near as bad. Garters have the worst smelling Musk, in my opinion. Followed by milks and kings.
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tspuckler
Oct 29, 2006 07:15 AM
Misty,
Have you smelled a water snake lately?
They're the worst!
Although I suppose stinkiness is in the nose of the beholder.
Tim
Third Eye
xblackheart
Oct 29, 2006 11:26 AM
No Tim, I have never been ant where near a water snake. lol. I don't think they are native around here anywhere, but I will take your word for it!
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phiber_optikx
Oct 29, 2006 01:01 PM
Misty, I think the closest thing you would have to a water snake is a krait 
see if you can get one to musk you!
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.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
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phiber_optikx
Oct 29, 2006 01:04 PM
I have never been musked by a water snake. But I will say garters and ribbons are the worst! Even if just due to their readiness to musk. like I said, I've never been musked by a water snake. But every garter snake that I have caught has musked me....
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 MO Locale Black Ratsnake "Molly" (Flogging Molly)
"You can only take my money for so long. And then I don't have anymore, and then I get angry!"
fla
Oct 29, 2006 11:38 AM
thank you
phwyvern
Oct 29, 2006 06:12 PM
>>its called musk. All snakes produce it to my knowledge. Corns hardly ever use it and when they do, it does not smell anywhere near as bad. Garters have the worst smelling Musk, in my opinion. Followed by milks and kings.
ounce for ounce, ringneck snakes have a much more potent musk for their size. Sometimes takes a few days for it to wear off even after washing several times.
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PHWyvern
draybar
Oct 29, 2006 06:59 PM
>>>>its called musk. All snakes produce it to my knowledge. Corns hardly ever use it and when they do, it does not smell anywhere near as bad. Garters have the worst smelling Musk, in my opinion. Followed by milks and kings.
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>>ounce for ounce, ringneck snakes have a much more potent musk for their size. Sometimes takes a few days for it to wear off even after washing several times.
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>>PHWyvern
I've been musked by rat snakes, corn snakes, king snakes, garter snakes, black racers, water snakes even a copperhead.
I have handled quite a few ringnecks, worm snakes, brown snakes and green snakes but have never been musked by any of them.
So...I am going to have to say in my opinion...garter snakes are the worst with water snakes right behind them in a very very close second.
I think it is the fish and frogs they eat.
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