Are corn snake hatchlings usually available at Christmas time? If not, how big will the youngest ones available at that time of year be? I know at least some of the colors change quite a bit as they mature. Will they still look like babies, just a little bigger, or will their adult patterns already have emerged?
How soon after xmas will next years babies start becoming available?
We've recently decided to get a ball python for our family (I've wanted one for years) but while we've been looking around at all the reptile stuff, one of our kids has gotten really interested in corn snakes and the other in leopard geckos. So I'm thinking we'll go ahead and get the ball python, then if the kids still seem interested after a while, we'll let them each get one of their chosen species. Xmas would be perfect. What a great present plus it is a reasonable amount of time to make sure we are all truly enjoying having a reptile in the house and want to add more. But I'm worried there won't be any hatchlings at that time of year and of course both kids got interested in species where the appearance can change quite a lot as the animal matures so we don't want to miss out on being able to watch that occur.
JMO