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I was keeping my albino oakatee corn snake who is about 3 feet long with my albino nelsons milk snake which was about has of its size. They did well together for about a month. No problems they were fed separately and neither one ever bothered each other. The enclosure was clamped down and secured. Now today I look only to find the nelson milk snake missing. I don't think that the corn snake ate him... because hes a corn snake. Anyway I guess the enclosure just may have not been secured enough so I set out a snake trap in my 700 sq ft apartment and already did a thorough search. The snake trap im using is a clasic bottle trap with a funnel , pinky inside for bait and a paper funnel taped to the rim. If anyone has any advice thoughts or ideas please let me know ... thanks - Marco

>>I was keeping my albino oakatee corn snake who is about 3 feet long with my albino nelsons milk snake which was about has of its size. They did well together for about a month. No problems they were fed separately and neither one ever bothered each other. The enclosure was clamped down and secured. Now today I look only to find the nelson milk snake missing. I don't think that the corn snake ate him... because hes a corn snake. Anyway I guess the enclosure just may have not been secured enough so I set out a snake trap in my 700 sq ft apartment and already did a thorough search. The snake trap im using is a clasic bottle trap with a funnel , pinky inside for bait and a paper funnel taped to the rim. If anyone has any advice thoughts or ideas please let me know ... thanks - Marco

Corn snakes can and do sometimes eat cage mates, especially when they are considerably smaller. It's best to cage snakes separately.

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how many days where there between the last feeding of the corn snake, and the albino milksnake disappearing? Corns don't usually eat other snakes, but I guess it's possible, especially if they are hungry enough. If it was the other way around (milksnake twice the size of the corn snake) then I'd almost be 100% sure of what happened! Something else to try: if you have a heat lamp with a night time bulb, try to place it over the bottle trap. If he goes in to eat, and he has plenty of heat, he won't even think of trying to leave!
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-David

1.0 ball python (Pandora - don't ask)
1.0 argentine boa (Prometheus)
0.1 hogg island boa (Andromeda)
0.0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (Inara)
1.0 kenyan sand boa (Diablo)
1.0 normal corn snake(Cypress)
0.1 amery. corn snake (Morgan LaFay)
0.0.1 banded cali. kingsnake (Cain)
1.0 tangerine honduran milksnake (Narcissus)
0.0.1 snow corn snake (Valkyrie)
1.0 amazon tree boa (Pegasus)
0.0.1 sandfish skink (Slick)
0.0.1 fire skink (Phoenix)
1.0 dog (Luke)

the wife's pets:
1.1 ferrets (Ares, Enyo)
0.0.1 betta fish (Captain Morgan)
1.2 cats (Galahad, Ripley and Sassy)