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Just got a young motley albino corn today. Haven't had a corn snake for a couple years. Have mine in a 29 gallon with aspen bedding with a water dish, some branches, and a bonzai tree. Have a uv bulb on top... I know most don't think they need it... and I have a UTH. Right now the temp is about 87, I am shooting for 85 though... curious as to what everyone else keeps their basking temps at.

ps. this is a pic of my old corn that I no longer have. Had to give her to a friend... she would later become a mom

I'd rethink the UV light. It normally doesn't really matter much. But with an albino snake its eyes are sensitive and it could cause the snake to prematurely go blind.
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Second that - my amel cal king certainly has poor vision, though she's not blind. I've never used UV light - but obtained her as an adult.
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Yeah, I've read about that before too. I think my UV lights might have hurt my lavender cal king.
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0.1 Lavender California Kingsnake (Lizzie Borden) (missing )
1.0 Florida Kingsnake (Eddie Gein)
0.0.1 Okeetee Cornsnake
0.0.1 Cornsnake
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1.0 Egyptian Arabian (Bagan) (Deceased )
1.0 Tennessee Walking Horse (Durango)

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I also agree with that!, Ultra Violet rays are not a real necessary part of most colubrid husbandry. As for the albino snakes(or any animal for that matter) normally pigmented (dark pupils) are dark so they can absorb light,.....in albino forms with pink eyes, the light is NOT absorbed correctly as they normally would, and the light tends to reflect and bounce around within the eye, causing amelanistic animals to have very sensitive eyes. Obviously their skin pigment is drastically affected by this as well, and they tend to burn much more easily, as ANY animal would without sufficient melanin to properly absorb UV rays. Many amelanistic humans have extremely sensitive eyes(and skin)too, so it's really not difficult to see the proof here regarding this UV issue. Some animals, e.g. lizards,.....need a certain amount of UV to synthesize vitamins in their diet, whereas snakes do not, but rather they DO utilize the Sun's rays for thermoregulating their body temps.

~Doug

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