Cornflake- Lost but not forgotten! Upload pet profile picture or choose a pet icon. Pet Type Reptile/Amphibian Breed/type Region East Midlands Personalise your pet URL. i,e if your pet´s name is snowy you can make your URL www.petstreet.com /pet/snowy. Make sure you check it to see if it is free. Choose a background colour for your pet. Or choose a background image. Not logged in Owner | My Interests My Blog 15 Feb 2007 01:45 This is a question i hear a lot! And it is usually followed by "I bet its alot". Well no its not in fact it is far less than what people pay for pedigree dogs and cats or most other pets. Well yo prove this i'll run through the costs. A baby corn snake you can basically buy for between 30 to 130 pounds for some of the more common colours These are very varied and there are some beautiful ones. Just in case any one is wondering a Pueblan milksnake like plato would cost 80 pounds generally as they are sold at 1 year plus usually as they are a bit tricky to look after as hatchlings. Any way we have our snake we need something for him to live in. Now there are many starter kits available that are cheap but you will have to change these as the snake grows, we must remember that they will grow to an average of 4 to 5 feet maybe 6. So i recommend buying a hand made vivarium these are generally wood with sliding glass doors and you can generally pick one up off ebay for about 50 + pounds. These must be 3ft long as this is what the snake will need as an adult. This will last the snake its life. So what goes in the viv? Well you need as a minimum is a UTH heat mat. This sits under one end of the viv providing a warm area for the snake DO not use a heat lamp these are for lizards. A water dish is also needed and you need to provide two hides these can be purchased or be simply to shoeboxes one at each end of the viv so the snake can move between hot and cold areas. Adequate substrate is also needed i recommend aspen bedding but do not use sand or pine or cedar chips. Thats it your basic viv you can add decoration i would say it would be a good idea to buy some cork branches for the snake to rub on when it's shedding but is not compulsary. so lets add up the cost it comes to about 100 pounds give or take luxuries. So not overly expensive really oh and about 40p a week to maintain. 0 Comments 06 Feb 2007 12:00 Cornflake shed today but came under some difficulty. I hadn't been able to keep the humidity up due to the cold weather the last few nights the central heating was going mad. Thus only half her skn came off and was still over her eyes. So the next hour was spent moisning her with a damp cloth and gently helping her to riggle out (the things we do for our pets). Finally to my suprise she actually sat still without any restraint and let me peel the dead skin off her eyes. It still amazes me how tame she is and how all animals know from time to time that your helping them! 2 Comments 31 Jan 2007 18:55 it isn't. All captive bred hatchlings are taught to eat pre killed food. The mice simply come frozen which you thaw out and give to your snake. These can be bought from most pet stores. Some individuals do feed live mice to their snakes but i disagree with this for the reason you have stated. Plus a scared mouse can do serious damage to a snake which isn't hungry. Unlike the wild a mouse has no chance of escape which only makes this practice more cruel. snake sausages can be bought which are created to hold all the nutritional value a mouse woud however my view is tha they are like ready meals for snakes, not the healthiest of foods but an option none the less. 0 Comments 30 Jan 2007 16:45 I am setting up this blog to answer any questions or concerns people may have abut keeping snakes. I do not pretend to be an expert but have read so much (proberbly too much) stuff on snakes i am of some use ;). to help answer any questions people may have. So come on, ask me a question no matter how trivial, whether it is to do with advice on purchasing a snake or just curiosity and i'll do my best to answer. If i don't know or can't find the answer i know a magnitude of places to point you in the direction of. 2 Comments My Message Wall  12 Nov 2007 12:56 Hey Matt My boa constrictor is for sale if you know of anyone is interested in buying one. He is a lovely placid snake and his sale is through no fault of his own. He is my mums snake and due to her very sick health, she feels she can no longer give him as much attention as she would like to. He is still being cared for and will come with his vivarium and heat pad, substrate is already in the vivarium. He also has his own hides, which he loves. He has never shown an aggressive side as from when we bought him, he has been handled. He is around 3-4 years I think, but is not used to other snakes. Please write back.. Candace x  02 Feb 2007 19:23 I would say corn snakes generally are the best pet snake to start as they have a good temperament, don't grow to big and aren't fussy eaters nor do they need overly complicated habitats. As with all animals you get the nasty ones that just want to bite your arm off but ive had no such problems with Cornflake she's so tame. I find a close second are king and milk snakes but these tend to be more of a show and tell pet as they are shy. I would recommend that new buyers try to stay away from the overly amazing colours that are on offer as these tend to be overly in bred which can cause bad tempraments. I have to be honest i don't know much about boas or pythons other than royal pythons are a very recommended beginner pet. Thanks for the message. 02 Feb 2007 18:44 Hi I was just wondering whether "cornflake" was your first snake bought and whether you think they make good first snakes. cornflake looks like a really nice snake, but we have had a corn snake before, and was told they are the best beginner snakes you could have but found that it wasnt true, as it was snappy and just extremely bad tempered. We now have 2 snakes. A Royal Python and a Rainbow Boa Constrictor. They are both very beautiful and very well tempered. Candace x-x-x Received Gifts | My Pictures My films |
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