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I have a 3mo old baby albino Oskeete-Ruby-for less than a week now. In all of the info I have read...and I have been reading alot, the poop is a good indicator of the snakes health..am I right? So, my worry is that in the little bit of time I have had Ruby, she had pooped twice, first very runny and white and second still runny but this time had solid white and green with black spots. She has been fed from the pet store with f/t pinkies, I have not fed her yet giving her a chance to adjust to her new home. Is this poop normal? I have read that the solid white is a snakes form of urine-right? But as for the green and black spots???
Also, do snakes 'musk' as a defence mech.? I thought I read that somewhere.
Sorry for the book and thanks for any help you can give a new snake lover!
Jamie

I don't know what the green is, but normally baby cornsnakes have runnier feces than adults, because the pinkies they are eating don't have any hair. Once you start feeding mice with hair, the feces will get more "normal."

The solid white you see are urates. And yes that is the equivalent of snake urine, but they still do deposit liquid as well.

Some snakes do musk, but I've never had any of my cornsnakes do it, though to be fair I only currently have 4. The only snakes that have ever musked me have been wild caught animals, one was a black ratsnake and the other was a water snake. Musking is different than being pooped on though. I have been deliberately pooped on (on more than one occasion) by a friend's California kingsnake.

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Current snakes:
1.0 2001 Hypo snow cornsnake
0.1 2002 Ghost (Pastel?) cornsnake
1.1 2002 Bloodred cornsnakes
To be added in March:
0.1 1998 Het Hypo, Het Caramel cornsnake
1.0 2000 Hypo Het Caramel cornsnake

the only snakes that have ever musked on me were ribbon snakes...yucky. and, oddly enough, my kingsnake pooped on me too, when he was a baby. granted, they're not as domesticated as corns...is your snake doing this when you pick him up? Cuz, don't let it stop you from handleing him. What I did to combat the attitude problem with my king was wearing rubber gloves when i handled him everyday. He learned eventually that pooping wasn't going to get me to leave him alone.
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The feces sounds normal to me. That is typically the way that it looks with all three of my snakes.

Thank you for your comments and info.
Jamie
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I did not believe in love at first sight until I saw Ruby, my baby corn snake!

Just thought you guys might want to know that the green poop that I asked about is not normal for a corn snake of any age, it should be brown or white. The brown being the animal matter and the white the urine matter.
jamie
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I did not believe in love at first sight until I saw Ruby, my baby corn snake!