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I have a 1 year old corn who was 36 grams on 6/4 when I got her. I feed her one small fuzzy rat a week, which she horks down w/in a few minutes of seeing it. She is growing like a weed on this diet & weighed 53 grams on 7/30. She has shed once a month for the last 3 months. I would never intentionally power feed or try to sneak in a second prey item after she ate the first. I think she's doing great & is maybe making up for lost time in her first year. Do things sound normal/OK?
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1.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.6 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & 2 as-yet-unnamed babies
1.1 cats Gus & Mena

For starters, this is the prime growing season. Corns are active and ready to eat but will start to throttle back with the lengthening nights. A 33% weight gain now is not bad for a yearling. Mine are about 120g. now but I feed once ever 5-6 days.
To determine if you are giving the proper sized meal, need to relate the prey to the snakes body size. Rule of thumb is the meal should be somewhat larger than the snakes body. A small fuzzy rat sounds just fine. Does it make a noticable budge once it is in her gut? If so, keep them coming!! If not, then try to increase the prey size...
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0.1 Snow Corn
0.2 Sunglow Corns
1.1 Albino Motley Corns
0.0.23 '04 hatchlings
0.1 Albino Corns '03
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some Bearded Dragons Cooking
1.3 Albino Leopord Geckos
1.0 Pictus Geckos
1 great wife
2 great boys
0.2 dogs (they're great too!!)

Thanks so much! Yes, it leaves a sizeable lump (& more feces by the week!). It seemed to me like things were going well w/ her, but I wanted to be sure.
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1.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.6 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & 2 as-yet-unnamed babies
1.1 cats Gus & Mena

>>Sounds good to me.
Nice healthy growth.
good job
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

n/p
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1.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.6 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & 2 as-yet-unnamed babies
1.1 cats Gus & Mena

How about Huey Newton
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2.0 Anerythristic Corns
1.0 Sunglow Corn
3.4 Leopard Geckos
3.1 Crested Geckos
1.0 Peacock Day Gecko
0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko
1.1 Giant Day Geckos
4.2 Cats

Who is/was Huey Newton?
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1.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.6 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & 2 as-yet-unnamed babies
1.1 cats Gus & Mena

He was one of the founders of the Black Panthers. He was murdered in 1989. Maybe not an association you want to make - depends on how you view the BPs...
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2.0 Anerythristic Corns
1.0 Sunglow Corn
3.4 Leopard Geckos
3.1 Crested Geckos
1.0 Peacock Day Gecko
0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko
1.1 Giant Day Geckos
4.2 Cats

Well thanks. It ain't easy finding famous Newton names after the first 6! I had to do an internet search to come up w/ #6- Helmut Newton (& that newt's a girl!) I'm also keeping Thandie Newton in mind, an actress. I'll have to research the BPs.

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1.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken & Abby
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)
0.1.1 frogs Buffy the Cricket Slayer, Butrose Butrose Froggy
1.1.6 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & 2 as-yet-unnamed babies
1.1 cats Gus & Mena