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I know that Garter Snakes eat fish, is this the same for corns. I have read several care sheets and haven't read anything against it or for it.

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Nah. Corns aren't ones to fancy fish. Rarely ever eat 'em in the wild, if ever, soubt youd be able to get yours to eat any.
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Chondros and colubrids... my 2 favorite types of snakes!

"Life is hard. Life is harder if you're stupid." - John Wayne

I sometimes give feeder fish to my hognose for a treat, but I don't think your corn would be interested. But, I don't see the harm in trying. My hognose will eat just about anything if I scent it with water from canned tuna.
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0.1 Western Hognose
0.1 Common Corn

All im going to say is it makes very smelly,runny,poo for a corn.Mine did eat minnows.It was funny watching them hit the water.lol.Just something I did with leftover shiners from fishing.If I would do it again no...Paul

You may be opening up a whole new world of parasites to your corn. That's one of the advantages of f/t; freezing kills the parasites.

I have heard that feeding fish to animal that is not desinged to eat strickly fish will cause an over dose of a certian vitiman. I think it is one of the "B" groups, but it will cause system failure in your snakes organs.
Animals that are designed to eat fish, such as water and garter snake, have a built in mechinisim to deal with this over load of vitiman B, that other do not.
Hope this helps
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
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A corn snake will not get sick from one small fish if it has been f/t. If you fed nothing but fish, you might build up the vitamin overdose, but doing it rarely should not pose health problems.

On the other hand, I follow the rule of a consistent diet. I've heard too many stories of snakes stuck on rabbits, gerbils, other snakes, etc to try anything different. The frozen mice I buy work fine and are safe, and I can get them whenever I need them at a good price.
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