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I have two questions I'd like to get some feedback on.

First, has anyone ever counted how many corn snake morphs there are? I don't mean potential, as in how many could there be, just how many are there now?

Second (this one is far less interesting), do you have to brumate corn snakes when you aren't going to breed them?

As to how many morphs (by that I mean animals showing peculiarities produced by being homozygous for simple recessive traits, or heterozygous for co-dominant traits) there actually are, I'd say somewhere around 60 or so, but it could be more than that without too much trouble.

As to your second question, the answer is no, you do not have to broumate your snakes if you are not breeding them. In fact, you don't even have to do so if you ARE breeding them. Many folks do not brumate their corns, and yet they produce clutches every year. On the other hand, some people do brumate their animals (assuming they're healthy enough) just so they can cut back on the feed bill for a few months.

Hope that helps!
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I just got done feeding my new corn (two days ahead of schedule, I might add), and it kind of freaked out. When I put the deli cup back into the cage to let it climb out, it started doing laps around the cage. Usually it hides from me for a good hour or so after I handle it, and then spends the rest of the night sticking it's head out of its favorite hide and peering at me like it's afraid of me. It's still moving all around under the substrate - I can see the aspen rising and falling in different parts of the tank. Does this mean it's still hungry? It's just a little creature, hatched earlier this year, so I didn't think it could handle two pinkies.