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My '07 male corn has always been docile. For the past two weeks, it seems to be pacing it's cage and follows me with its eyes everytime I walk in the room. On a few occasions, when I put my hand in the cage, it follows me with its mouth open, but has not struck yet. I have switched its feed from two fuzzies to a hopper mouse every five days (it is fed outside the cage with metal tongs).

Can it be that it is still hungry? Mating season? Just in a bad mood?

It wants to eat. Sometimes it doesn't matter if you feed it in a seperate enclosure, if the snake associates you with food, it may come after you with its mouth open. It's not being mean though - just hungry.

Having said that, just because it wants to eat doesn't mean that you should feed it. I've seen a lot of overweight corns. If you are feeding it one food item that is the same width as the widest part of the snake and you are feeding it every 5 days, I'd stick with that schedule.

You might want to use a snake hook to remove the snake from it's cage. Once it's out of its cage and being held, there's a pretty good chance that it will lose its inclination to bite.

Tim

Third Eye

You're right...

He's fine once in my hands...but boy can that tail rattle.

sounds hungry to me, maybe switch to 2 fuzzies every three days