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Hello everyone Im new to snakes and about a week ago I picked up a juvenile corn snake. I have put a cricket in its cage for a couple days but has not eaten it. Im not sure if I should be feeding it mice yet because it is pretty small it is a little less than the thickness of a BIC pen. But it has not ate yet should I be concerned about this?

I know your snake may look too small to you, but pinkie mice is what you want to be feeding him/her.
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Arlon Delorge
Classic Constrictors

What were the people you bought it from feeding it? Corn snakes usually hatch in the Summer, which means your snake should be at least 6 months old and eating pinky mice.

Baby corns hardly ever eat insects. Sometimes they'll take lizards or frogs, but in most cases breeders feed them mice.

Tim

Third Eye

Should definitely be eating pinky mice. Corns are ready for them from birth.

If you're worried about the size then get day old pinkies from your rodent source.

If it is still that small then the breeder may have, as some I know do, hibernated the hatclings as soon as they were ready post hatching. They then bring them out of hybernation later in the season when they have sold all their non hybernating stock.

This saves them alot of rodent cost in the meen time. Also if they are selling in a store front then the hatchlings sell faster because of baby "cuteness" appeal.

It will "down" a pinkie the girth of its own body with no problem whatsoever!.....this is the norm, and he will thrive on them...Also, keep cage temps at mid 80's at one end of cage with an underneath heat source(one end only) such as a heating pad. DO NOT just guess at the temps, this doesn't work.Use a readable thermometer down on the substrate And give him a little "hide-box" at both ends so he can thermoregulate himself!..with this, he should do fine...................................Doug
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

Thanks for the help everyone I just picked up some pinkys(frozen) I put one in the cage. Do they usually take long to eat it or do I leave it in there for a while?