Pet Help?

[plum]

+1 for tongs. Hand feeding results in torn up hands. Yes, from my yearling corn. And from my 4-month old boa. Little monsters have tagged me more than Diamond has.

Would it get 100 degrees in the house? If not, I probably wouldn't worry..

[IAmLink]

If you have ac in your new house, you should be fine. Otherwise if it should get too hot, maybe put up a fan in the room with the corn? Or, if it gets really bad, you can put some cool packs on the cool side of the tank.

[Jazi]

Is there anything special I should do on days when it gets up near 100 degrees F?

Air conditioning! Seriously, that's about your only option. I had to have my AC running 24/7 last summer to keep Quetzal from pressure-cooking in his tank >3> Keep that room as cool as possible with fans or AC or else your snake will not appreciate the warmth.

[.Middy.]

If it got that hot inside, you can bet that we would probably be at a hotel or something with air conditioning. Even if we would have to drive 6 hours to my grandmas from there.

My parents have a 'Mini' English Bulldog who can't deal with heat that high, so if she had to leave the house, I would take the snake too.

We do have AC in all the houses we are looking at, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't something special I should do for the snake.

[Shark-salad]

mabye you could get a bearded dragon? i love them i have red a little about them but there a little difficult to care for, but you can take them outside. once my teacher had bearded dragons and i loved taking them out and putting them on my chest sometimes they climb on you its soo cute!! or a leopard gecko i cant touch them because there skin grosses me out (just the texture of the bumps on there skin im so sad i love geckos too!) (speaking of lizards i was at my pet store and they had baby chameleons so cute!!!!)


if hes not allergic to birds mabye a small bird, but there hard to take care of so i dont know

[.Middy.]

I can't get lizards or geckos, they creep my stepdad out.

He is insanely allergic to feathers, otherwise we would have a macaw. We both love them.

[.Middy.]

Do you guys have any books on corn snakes to suggest? I haven't talked my mom into getting the book from the SMR guy yet.

[.Middy.]

After reading the book from Don at SMR, I don't know which way to go.

Should I feed it one every four days or one every 6-7 days?

[plum]

I prefer weekly feedings w/ larger meals.

[.Middy.]

For hatchlings?