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Bladespark Nov 19, 2007 12:19 AM

I went to a reptile show in Portland yesterday. I'd honestly gone hoping to find a rainbow boa that I liked, but there were a grand total of four of them at the entire event, all overpriced and none of them appealing to me.

I was so disappointed about that, but then I was just randomly looking at some corn snakes, and I saw this little guy! He's apparently a year old but a little runty, he was a bad eater the year before, but is now finally over being picky, or so I'm told. He was $25, which sounded like an eminently reasonable price for a small yearling corn snake to me, and I think he was the very prettiest one on the whole table. The pastel colors that seem to be the most common are nice, but I really like something a little bolder and with more variety.

I know jack all about corn snakes, but I keep a ball python already with no trouble at all, and I've been told many times that corns are even easier, so I'm not too worried. I've read up on a few care sheets, and I expect to have a full setup for the little guy completed by tomorrow.

As far as I know he's just a very striking normal and not a morph at all, but that's just from my flipping through a few pages of photos on line, I'm not anything like an expert.

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Replies (3)

lister8 Nov 19, 2007 11:38 AM

very pretty. my corn is 7 months
its interesting to see what it will look like when it is older!

draybar Nov 19, 2007 06:26 PM

>>I went to a reptile show in Portland yesterday. I'd honestly gone hoping to find a rainbow boa that I liked, but there were a grand total of four of them at the entire event, all overpriced and none of them appealing to me.
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>>I was so disappointed about that, but then I was just randomly looking at some corn snakes, and I saw this little guy! He's apparently a year old but a little runty, he was a bad eater the year before, but is now finally over being picky, or so I'm told. He was $25, which sounded like an eminently reasonable price for a small yearling corn snake to me, and I think he was the very prettiest one on the whole table. The pastel colors that seem to be the most common are nice, but I really like something a little bolder and with more variety.
>>
>>I know jack all about corn snakes, but I keep a ball python already with no trouble at all, and I've been told many times that corns are even easier, so I'm not too worried. I've read up on a few care sheets, and I expect to have a full setup for the little guy completed by tomorrow.
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>>As far as I know he's just a very striking normal and not a morph at all, but that's just from my flipping through a few pages of photos on line, I'm not anything like an expert.
>>
>>

congrats and welcome to the addiction.
You are right, that is a nice "natural". Normal just doesn't work for me. Nothing normal about them.
I can't think of anything better to start with.
good luck and enjoy

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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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munchkins Nov 19, 2007 08:54 PM

And is such a natural beauty. I agree that the non-morph colors can be gorgeous! But you have to be VERY careful with cornsnakes. Once you have one, you have to get another.......and another......and another.
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sue

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