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I recently aquired two normal phase corn females. The snakes are wild caught and about 2-3yrs old ( judging from their size and weight). They are 36 to 40 inches in legnth and 220 to 270 grams. I have them in seperate aquariums to quarenteen them as all my other snakes are in the cooler till feb 15th. I never considered wild caught before but I needed a few females to breed with my ghost male as my other ghost females died in november. What is a minimum brumation period I could use for these wild caught females as the male will come out of a 3 month brumation in february? The 3 month quarenteen will end in march. I have been feeding them agressively and the vet has them on pancour untill feb 12th for intestinal parisites ( quite common Im told in wild caught animals). once they have a clean bill of health and are eating steadily I'll consider cooling them. Also they are the nastiest, foul tempered, little girls who rattle and strike quite often causing me to keep my hook next to the cages to pick them up and avoid being bitten. I've tried the bold, gentle, and consistent advance approachs to picking them up and counter their threats, but their not bluffing and a bite seem to be a sure thing unless you can divert the biting end away untill your have a hold of them. Anyone who has experience keeping wild caught animals - will they settle down?
Ive had them 3 weeks and handle them every couple of days to try to settle them down, but so far no luck.
Thanks Chris

They may calm down they may not.All you can do is try.I have a cb hypo female that im about ready to turn into belt leather.Make sure you have another fecal done before you decide to breed,and double check for creepy crawlies....Good Luck .Paul..

My only experience with wild caught is Texas rat snakes. I caught three last summer. An adult, yearling, and a hatchling. I decided to keep them just to do a little experimenting. I've always heard how agressive they are and wanted to find out for myself. Well the adult is long gone. I kept it about three weeks. There was no way in hell it was ever going to be tamed. It didn,t even want me in the same house. I've never been musked by anything so horrible in my life. I just gave away the other two a couple of weeks ago, they turned into nice little pets. The hatchling has never struck. The other though tamed somewhat would strike out of the blue for seemingly no reason on occasion. The new owner says he's been chewing on his hand ever since he took him. Like said above maybe yes, maybe no. I think the older the snake the harder to tame. Just from my experience. Jim
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Hello;

I have both wild caught okeetee, and miami female corn's. They also are very very agressive in fact the only snakes in my collection I have been bitten by are these two. They have not changed since I have had them maybe mellowed a little but not like my other snakes. I have heard that some people who have wild caught snakes do settle down but most of them stay fairly aggressive. I would get rid of my two but they are beautiful snakes. GOOD LUCK!!!