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how big can corns get? i have a "natural" who is a year this week..and he is already 2feet8 inches and ive been feeding him medium..or regular size mice, and they arent big enough anymore, i wanna put him on adults but i think they are too big..i read that corns can eat bigger then there girth but i dont wanna make him regurg..anyway how big will he get do you think?

The adult size for corns is 4 to 5 ft. I've heard of some males reaching the 6 ft. mark. But i think this is rare.

I had a corn that was about 4 feet in his first year. Starting to feel I feed him too much. Fed him pinkies twice a week when I first bought him (he was about 14" Pinkies didn't seem to make much of a bulge so fed him two at a time then switched to small fuzzy mice after I ran out of pinkies. Cut back to once feeding a week after having him for about two months but he still grew big in his first year.

I don't have him anymore, had to sell him as I was moving out of the city and didn't know if I could get into a place that allowed exotic pets. Not sure what his weight was, didn't have a chance to weigh him before selling him but he was approximately 4 feet long (longer than length of my 35 gal tank which was 36" in length). Last time I weighed him he was around 225g and about 3 feet long.

Have I been feeding him too much or was he just a healthy grower? Would like to know as I plan on getting more corns in the near future.

I've been feeding my yearling fuzzy rats once a week & she's growing like a weed! She's shedding once a month for the last 4 months! I prefer rats, personally, feel like they're getting more bang for the buck than w/ mice.

About your size ?, I have an adult (6 years old when we got him this past summer) who's about 52" long & currently weighs a kilogram (1,000 grams)! He was eating adult rats when he went off feed a few weeks ago for the winter.
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2.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken, Jack Skellington & 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
1.1.5 firebelly newts Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton, Fig Newton, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton John, Helmut Newton & Thandie Newton
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He has one that is huge.I mean huge.Maybe he will grace us with another pick of Godzilla. Thanks Marcel.

>>He has one that is huge.I mean huge.Maybe he will grace us with another pick of Godzilla. Thanks Marcel.

LOL, any chance I get to show him off.. Most of you have seen these a million times but here I go:

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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield
http://www.marcelpoots.com

>>he is already 2feet8 inches and ive been feeding him medium..or regular size mice

Hercules, my 14 year old male was a little bit bigger at age one. I would think just over 3' (almost 100cm) At age 5 he was close to 6'. The last few years he has been growing a few cm a year.

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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield
http://www.marcelpoots.com

Big boy!!
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