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And how long do they live? Mine is still young I hope at 4yrs.I was thinking she is so tame and great, then started thinking about when she gets old,(sorry I just lost one of my ferrets yesterday and started thinking about losing my other pets)..
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>>And how long do they live? Mine is still young I hope at 4yrs.I was thinking she is so tame and great, then started thinking about when she gets old,(sorry I just lost one of my ferrets yesterday and started thinking about losing my other pets)..
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my oldest, at this time, is only seven years old.
With proper care they can live up to around twenty years but I would think the average would be a few years less then that, though.

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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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I had a female normal that made it to 14 before we had to have her put down for cancer.
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Burm baby burm...

They can live as long as 32 years, but most that I know of only get to about half of that (16 years). As you might expect, their life expectancy is rather variable. There's speculation that captive bred morphs don't live as long as wild-caught corns, presumably because of all the inbreeding needed to create color phases.

I have several corns that are 8 years old.

Tim

Third Eye

At 4 years old you should have plenty of years to enjoy your corn. My oldest is a '99 female (pic attached) and she's one of my favorites.

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Ken Roshak
BlackSwampSerpents@toast.net

I have one that hatched in 1991 so will be 17 this july. she is going strong and gives me mid to upper 30 eggs annually. Her sister, who died in a hibernation accident in 2005, gave me 70 eggs(all good) one year in 2 clutches(43 and 27). Your 4 year old has lots of good years coming.

What is a hibernation accident?

Sorry to have to rehash a painful memory but here goes. Back in feb of 2005, a day before I was to bring my snakes out of their winter "vacations", I lost all power in my shed(separate from my house)during a cold snap and lost 2/3 of my adult breeders-many being irreplaceable specimens. Normally I'm on top of things and it wouldn't have happened but I was recovering from major surgery and couldnt get out to the shed on a daily basis. Amazing hos you know what happens.

Aww...I am sorry that happened. I know you must have felt awful about it. I would have nightmares forever. krawls

That really sucks though about your accident, hard to recover from something like that.
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it was tough but 2 years later and I was back. now this year I am back in full force. hey, as they say, " you know what happens."

I have a male amel that I am guessing is about 17. I have had him 13 years and the people I got him from had had him about a year before they got him from a breeder who had used him for breeding. He was fully adult when I got him.

Maizey is 11 this year and still going strong.

Big Gus my Locale WC okeetee hunt club corn was caught when he was a hatchling. That was 14 1/2 years ago. I purchased him from my vet who personally caught him re-livng Karl Kauffelds dream! He is a beast at over 5ft, closer to 6, i really need to get a better accurate measurement. I also need to take pics with my new camera just havent did it yet.

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My herps..
1.1 Amel bloodred corns
1.1 reverse okeetees
1.0 normal corn
1.0 Anery
1.2 Amel corn
1.1 Jasper county Okettee's(YES true locale specimens)
2.0 American alligators
0.1 Northern Copperhead
1.2 Timber rattlesnakes(canebrake phase)
2.3 black rat snakes
2.2 eastern hogs
1.0 Everglades rat
1.1 yellow rat
1.2 Albino monocled cobra

Thats an awesome looking cornsnake, definitly something to be proud of.
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This my female Creamsicle "Yolanda".
If I remember correctly (not exactly a sure thing), she's 14 years old and close to 52 inches.

She and her (late) mate "Mr T" made many, many babies over the years.

Take Care,

John D

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I am so not lesdysxic!

0.1 Creamsicle Cornsake
1.0 Bairds Ratsnake
0.1 Desert Kingsnake
1.1 Eastern Kingsnakes

My Blood/Okeetee male is a '91 and still produced 89% good eggs last year.

about 15 years old,i got her,an anery, as a christmas present when she was 3 years old and i was 9,my very first snake!(thanks mom for trusting me) i hope she has many years left but she is getting older. ill miss her terribly.

my brother got her in middle school as an adult.... and i still have her... her name is Gertrude. evil lil thing, but still cute. she lives in an old womens home which is a 55 gallon aquarium. i figured her last years should be lived in luxury.
~kin
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~Sober Serpents~
Corns, Creamsicles, A Black Rat, Thayeri, Cal Kings, A Jungle Corn(Just A Pet), A Bearded dragon, Leopard Geckos, a Snapping turtle, and a white cheeked mud turtle

I caught an adult male cornsnake in Charleston, SC in May of 1981 and he died in Aug of 2002, 21 years, and 3 months. I would think he was at least 6 or 7 years old when I caught hin. He wasn't a typical corn as he had an attitude and always wanted live food. I have an eastern mud turtle that I also caught near Charleston as a hatchling in 1980 and I still have her.

Rick

Back in high school my buddy bought a yearling okeetee cornsnake. Likely WC as it was 1974! He kept it for a very long time. There were many years it ate only the mice his pet cat caught. Maybe 10 a year. But live on and look good it did.

In 2002 I got a call from the "neighbor kid" he had given it to. The snake was acting weird and felt "stiff". I said perhaps it was dying of old age as I knew the history of the animal.

The next day I got the call, "He died".

Snake was 28 years in captivity and a yearling when bought. So for this specimen? 29 years or so!
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The first corn I ever owned is currently about.. 15-16 years. He's still as energetic as ever though

My friend Rick has a female that is approx 21 years old and has bred in recent years, she is retired now though.

My oldest is '96 anery, and she is still a kickin, she has catiracts on each eye, but is still as gental as can be.......She is having a hard time putting on weight any more though, this all comes with age, and the female breeders take the worst of it.....Males tend to live longer just 4 the simple fact they aren't having to go through the whole breeding"eggs" factors.......

Hi! I hardly ever post, maybe once every three years or so, but I spend time on this web site weekly, and have attended some part of every chat week since the beginning.

We have a pet corn snake who was born in the fall of 1992, so he'll be 16yo this year. When we got Spot he was only a couple of weeks old, and smaller than a new pencil. As he grew, so did his homes. He first started out in a 10-gallon aquarium and has lived now for many years in a 55-gallon tank. We have an empty 75-gallon tank just in case, but have decided he doesn't need to move anymore.

Spot is a calm snake and when the kids were younger attended several school, Cub- and Brownie-scout show-and-tells. Now he mostly just cruises around his tank looking for girls, and gets taken out about every three weeks or so.

We've never had any problems with him, aside from some years not eating from late November to sometime in February. Drives me crazy!

My father got me into snakes when I was a little girl by giving me 50 cents to go into the circus caravan parked in the shopping center parking lot, so that I could see the humongous python, or maybe it was a boa. It stopped there for a few weeks every year, and every year I don't know how much money I spent going in to see that snake!

i know this thread is a little old, but if you keep your snake in good health it should live a long time. i have a bull snake that is in the neighborhood of 26 years. i have had it in my possession since summer of 1984. he was wild caught and at the size when found one could speculate about 1-2 years old.