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I recently aquired a yearling (maybe a year old sometime soon) Creamcicle corn from a friend who couldn't take care of it. It's about a year old, and it isn't a foot yet (well, MAYBE 1 ft, but no longer, I'm going for shorter though). He neglected it, and sometimes went a month or so without feeding it. Could it's growth be stunted??? Could it ever get any bigger??? It has defenitly gained some weight since I've started feeding it once a week.

If it's less than a foot at a year old, I bet it's a lot more often than 'sometimes' that he went a month without feeding it - my hatchlings were 10-11 inches right out of the egg. I had a milksnake that would regularly go 3 weeks without eating because it would only eat live mice (the store where I bought the pinkies would frequently be out). He still managed to grow 2 inches in 4 months on that diet.

I think he'll be fine if you start feeding more often. I think I would step him up to feeding every 3-4 days or so, maybe give supplements (pinkies lack calcium). Once you get him on a more frequent diet, I think he'll have a growth spurt. The milksnake I talked about previously, once I got my mouse colony set up and running, I could feed him a lot more often and I swear he grew a couple inches in a month.
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-audri
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