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| John Nicholson |
Posted - 11/09/2012 : 19:53:42
Basically all my Corn will eat is Ratpups, I can't get her to eat mice, the previous owner couldn't get her to eat mice, the professionals (my local reptile shop) can't get her to eat mice!!
I've been told they can't really survive on ratpups but must eat mice, but she just won't take them. I know they'll make her fat and everything but I'll give her enough excersize to work it all off.
My Corn has been in the care of my local for two weeks now, trying to get her to feed, I'm missing her is it worth taking her home and feeding her ratpups probably for the rest of her life or let them hang onto her a week or two more?
She's about 1-2 years of age. |
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| smart bunny |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 17:18:10
Hey John, how are things going now? |
| John Nicholson |
Posted - 22/09/2012 : 18:42:09
Awesome!! Corno is still insane, I love it haha.
And yeah lol I also want a snake tattoo I think that'd be awesome, like a tattoo of a snake like wrapped round the top of my arm and maybe over my shoulder, I just thought that would be pretty cool haha |
| smart bunny |
Posted - 21/09/2012 : 16:41:20
Corno is just over a year. In the above thread Ember was about 4-5 months and she is now 9 months, I'll have to do another thread for her lol. Snakes are so addicitve John, you will soon have more lol! |
| John Nicholson |
Posted - 20/09/2012 : 21:56:10
Wpah :O that's crazy I'm jealous haha |
| SexyBear77 |
Posted - 20/09/2012 : 21:20:55
More than that now, I kept 9 babies from this years pairings  |
| John Nicholson |
Posted - 20/09/2012 : 19:50:44
Yeah, I think I will, too many people have been going mad telling me how badly she needs to be on mice I will just feed her rats from now on.
Bear, have you seriously got 18 corns plus more other snakes? O.o |
| SexyBear77 |
Posted - 20/09/2012 : 18:42:28
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Originally posted by Red123
Probably get shouted at for this, but why are you so desperate to get your snake off rat pups and onto mice? As long as you leave a sensible amount of time between feeds then feeding rats to her is, in my opinion not a problem. You can move her up to rat fluffs if the pups are too small and an adult corn can easily manage rat weaners. I actually have the opposite problem I have a corn that will only eat mice and I have tried everything to get him to eat a rat but he won't have any of it. So he will have to stick with mice.
100% agree with this- if it eats rats, feed it rats. |
| John Nicholson |
Posted - 20/09/2012 : 16:44:16
Red, yeah everybody on here (on a different thread) and everyone at my reptile shop has told me she REALLY REALLY NEEDS to be on mice, and how she won't get the right nutrition. And a while back she wasn't pooing, and people put that down to her being on rats too. But to be honest, I think I am probably just going to keep her on rats, and just try mice occasionally on the off chance.
Bunny they are amaaazing :D I love the colour of Ember and Corno is just amazing!! I love anery's so much lol how old are your two corns now? |
| smart bunny |
Posted - 19/09/2012 : 18:58:30
I thought that too Red, I think John has just been given very strong 'advice' from the pet shop to be honest which he obviously and understandably thought it was best to follow... |
| smart bunny |
Posted - 19/09/2012 : 18:55:31
Anery's are the easiest morphs, along with amels, to find lol (not counting normals :p). I'm sure you would find one if you just hold out a bit ;)
Here is recent thread of mine showing Corno - and how much she has changed lol http://www.thecornsnake.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26169
OMG Ember gets seriously neglected on the photo front, not got any recent threads of her so will have to rectify that! Here's an old thread: http://www.thecornsnake.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=23234&SearchTerms=ember
As for the rainbow - well your best bet is to have a look on the rainbow boa forum to find out more ;) I saw a few photos of Brazilian Rainbows and thought they were beautiful but the 'extra care' required put me off... but Blackcat (who funnily enough also has anery and amel cube corns :O) told me not to worry and that they were easy. We've not had her long enough to comment really (she's actually hubby's snake), but it's certainly been no problem so far keeping things more humid - you just have to clean them out a little more often :) Bit more expensive when they get older though as it's best to keep them in a plastic viv due to the humidity which are more pricy... |
| Red123 |
Posted - 19/09/2012 : 18:41:07
Probably get shouted at for this, but why are you so desperate to get your snake off rat pups and onto mice? As long as you leave a sensible amount of time between feeds then feeding rats to her is, in my opinion not a problem. You can move her up to rat fluffs if the pups are too small and an adult corn can easily manage rat weaners. I actually have the opposite problem I have a corn that will only eat mice and I have tried everything to get him to eat a rat but he won't have any of it. So he will have to stick with mice. |
| John Nicholson |
Posted - 19/09/2012 : 18:12:45
Throne Walker yeah that's what the people in the show suggested, just wondering can you buy them freshly killed and take them home or does they go un-fresh? If that makes sense? Like how long are they freshly killed for?
Bunny, omg I love Anery's!! I REALLY want one like a little hatchling one but I have no clue where I can get one, when I get another little viv I'll go hunting for one. And wow ember sounds like really cool, I've never seen stripes going to blocks before :O and wow a rainbow boa, do they require like lots and lots of caring? I know they need a certain humidity level but apart from that are they that hard? I'm also very interested in those haha.
Zeezee is home at last :D |
| smart bunny |
Posted - 18/09/2012 : 22:18:55
Aww thanks :) Corno is an anery (but that pic was taken last November so she's changed a LOT) and Ember is an amel cube (starts off as a stripe then changes to blocks later down). Prism is a Columbian Rainbow Boa (who we got in July at just a month old and ate for us for the first time on Saturday night, so was seriously stressing us out, and we are now over the moon, so I can understand your worry about trying to feed Zeezee lol). |
| Thorne Walker |
Posted - 18/09/2012 : 20:44:35
Fresh kill might be a middle ground.. it's not F/T but it's also not going to turn around and defend its self.. |
| John Nicholson |
Posted - 18/09/2012 : 19:47:38
...I don't actually know, I've not tried. I've just been recommended to get her off them so I've just been trying her on mice |
| a33272 |
Posted - 18/09/2012 : 19:06:08
So she won't even take bigger rats? |
| John Nicholson |
Posted - 18/09/2012 : 16:47:53
A33272 I'm not sure what is what but it did some damage.... I wouldn't mind meeting this little mouse you know, and it is literally ALL she will take, she won't eat mice or anything with fur, she's really fussy haha. I love her though!!
And Bunny, cheers I reckon it's for the bets to be honest. And yeah that sounds good to me I'll definitely try that... Bunny, I love your corns, they look amazing :D What type are they? |
| smart bunny |
Posted - 18/09/2012 : 08:56:57
I'm so sorry to hear she got hurt, I don't blame you in the slightest for wanting her back in your own care :(
Personally I would get her back, let her settle in with you properly for a good while eating what she wants. Once she is truely settled, then try other methods to change her to better food, but at the moment she just needs peace and quiet, poor thing xxx
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| a33272 |
Posted - 18/09/2012 : 07:58:09
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Originally posted by John Nicholson
Omg that is awesome!! Mine has shed at the Reptile Shop so she's like become massive now :D haha
Audl you know I was saying about Zeezee, mine, and how that girl my from local reptile shop was going to take her home and feed her a live yeah?
She took her home fed her, Zeezee went for live mouse, bit into it in the middle, it turned around and bit her back :/ she's got a load of stitches around her face :'( upsetting to see but she seems bright and cheerful considering so that's one good thing I suppose
I thought she was going to try on a live pinkie? Cant see a pinkie would of done that much damage.
Do you feed rat pups because there size relivent or is it liturally that is all she will take? |
| John Nicholson |
Posted - 17/09/2012 : 22:49:36
No. Zeezee is coming home, it's the best option to be honest, my mum pointed something out to me today.
What's best for her? Sitting in a small box in the care of complete strangers getting looked at once a day to make sure she's not dead, getting starved and slapped round the face by some food she doesn't want to eat and getting her face ripped open by mice.
Or is living at her ACTUAL home where she is comfy, where she gets one to one attention, where she's get's loved and fed the food she she enjoys the most? Do you see my point? Which is the kindest option.
Seeing her all stitched up broke my heart today :'( |
