Even though I always felt bad for the cute little mice, feeding was one of my favorite parts of having a corn snake. Mine would get very excited and strike at the glass whenever I got near. She could smell that mouse defrosting. So could I. Stinky, LOL.
It is suggested to also feed in a different container so that anything, such as fingers, being introduced from the top of the living tank aren’t presumed to be something to bite.
hatchlings need to be fed 2x a week but once they get to about 3 months old, most will switch them to once a week. If you've never heard of Snake Discovery, I recommend watching their videos because they have a lot of great educational information.
@@claricethecornsnake5016feed my 4 month corn snake a pinky last night. He threw it up today just a few minutes ago when I tripped and banged the surface shaking his enclosure. I feel bad I don’t him to starve and get sick. How long should I wait to feed him again? I don’t think he can go a whole weekend without eating
Hi I just got my corn snake a day ago he was supposed to eat yesterday according to the feeding records the breeder had given me he eats every seven days and he was supposed to eat yesterday but he did just get shipped and he did not eat so I left it in overnight should I be worried that he didn’t eat and try again in a week or what should I do
So your corn snake is probably stressed at the moment from being shipped and being introduced to its new home. I would give it a week to calm down, so just leave it alone. I would then try to feed it again after a week. Corn snakes are known to be good eaters, just make sure you are feeding it the right size and it should end up eating.
hi, i have a baby corn too, my corn snake is a garbage disposal tho :D give him time, atleast a week, make sure he is in quiet enviroment, if you have the snake tank in a living room or a room where is too much room, just move it somewhere where the little guy is not disturbed. check again if you are feeding the right size of a pinkie and i woulf personaly feed him the smallest one, i heard there is lower chance of him regurgitating the meal. if he doesnt eat now, contact the breeder and ask about what size of mice he was fed plus if he was fed live. i hope you have bought a snake that was already eating without any problems... your little guy should eat after that, also there is a method if you use dead mice (for a live god, please dont do that on live mice) its called braining, where you open the mouse, for my corn, i used just a specific pair of scissors, and you make a cut on the back of a DEAD mouse just to reveal blood or any tissue under the skin. some baby corns might not eat frozen and thawed because apparently, they loose a bit of scent. i hoped this insanely chaotic paragraph helped!
My baby snake I got I was told was eating live pinkies. Is that ok? I was gonna get frozen but I’m nervous. I will start that probably next week. And how often to feed for a hatchling???
I got an wild caught gray rat snake, it's only a few weeks old, just a little bigger than the one in the video. What can I feed it with and how can I help it to adapt to frozen thawed?
Unfortunately, I don't know a lot about wild caught snakes and can't give the best or most correct information on it. The best I could give you is to do research on it and slowly try and transition to feeding it thawed mice. Use a bag when putting it in water to keep the scent of the mice however, from what I know once snakes are on live, it is very hard to change to frozen thawed. Though, since it is very young there is a chance, you can change it.
If it's only a few weeks old and wild-caught, it has probably only had a couple of meals that it has hunted if it was lucky. You will probably have to start with live and just hope that it does okay in captivity. One of the main problems with wild-caught reptiles is they were born out in the wild and won't be happy in a tank of any kind. If you bought it from someone, I really hope they worked with it at least a little bit to get it used to humans and being fed rather than hunting. There are a lot of changes that they have to adjust to and many don't thrive in captivity. I would always recommend getting captive-bred reptiles rather than an animal that was taken from its home in the wild. Edit: A wild baby rat snake is not going to be hunting pinkie mice as the mother mouse would probably be with the babies. They typically eat frogs, lizards, and other small vertebrates. Scenting might be needed to transition to mice.
I bet this works a lot but I'm writing for those people who found a wild corn snake and are worried about it eating. I was a novice. So I bought a pinkie and did this. It was a very small snake. Only way I was successful in getting it to eat was small back yard lizards. Live! Eventually I will exchange for mice but it loves lizards. Likes to hunt them. Plus idk. I'm sure dead mice are fine but life is something special. Feeding live may be beneficial. Or I'm a dumb ads then don't listen to me.
Feeding live is ok, but I would suggest not feeding live lizards found in your backyard since they could carry diseases. As long as you are ok with feeding live, then go for it! I personally don’t like it, haha
@LiaTheMermaid Most frozen rodents are either suffocated in a bag, drowned, have their heads smashed (typically done by personal breeders to feed their own animals), or are flash-frozen with liquid nitrogen (the fastest way and least painful way to go) so I'm not sure where you get the "peaceful departure" idea especially since nature is set up so that the snake kills whatever prey item it is going to eat.
Even though I always felt bad for the cute little mice, feeding was one of my favorite parts of having a corn snake. Mine would get very excited and strike at the glass whenever I got near. She could smell that mouse defrosting. So could I. Stinky, LOL.
I totally agree, I love feeding clarice! hahah
My corn snake Darth Noodle is about a year and 5 months. He can eat hopper mice now and I’m so proud!
aw reminds me of my baby noodle when he was small
Ik they are so cute and fun sized 😆
thank you i'm planning to buy a corn snek so thanks for this video
That’s so exciting! Good luck with your new snake!
nah im pretty sure they meant snek
i don't even have a baby corn snake don't ask me why im watching it lol
haha
You watched it because it is very cool
So cute i wish i had a corn snake 🐍 😔
Just make sure you offer the mouse head first, and not on a substrate
Please if possible temp test the food, 27’c to mimic live prey.
“Use the hottest temp from the tap.” And pray your rodent doesn’t blow up.
lol
how many gallons is your terrarium?
My terrarium is about 15 gallons
@@claricethecornsnake5016 Do you have a bigger tank? because the adult cannot be housed in a 15 gallon.
@@nadia9410 baby corn snakes are housed in 20 gallon (average) and adults 30-40 gallon so yes you are right he should be in a bigger tank
@@someduckifound5734 adult corn snake are 4 foot long, they should be in a 120 gallon at the minimum.
@@someduckifound5734 I have a very young baby corn snake who has a 10 gallon tank because of how tiny he is
It is suggested to also feed in a different container so that anything, such as fingers, being introduced from the top of the living tank aren’t presumed to be something to bite.
is it alright to feed babies every 7 days
I would say to feed your snake that is still on pinkies every 5 or 6 days but if it’s on fuzzies 7 days is perfectly fine
hatchlings need to be fed 2x a week but once they get to about 3 months old, most will switch them to once a week. If you've never heard of Snake Discovery, I recommend watching their videos because they have a lot of great educational information.
@@claricethecornsnake5016feed my 4 month corn snake a pinky last night. He threw it up today just a few minutes ago when I tripped and banged the surface shaking his enclosure. I feel bad I don’t him to starve and get sick. How long should I wait to feed him again? I don’t think he can go a whole weekend without eating
I like friends
same
my corn snake won't eat me pinkies at all, he just stays curled up.
Try boiling the pinkie till it turns somewhat grey then give it to your corn snake it worked for me when they get stubborn about eating
@@allyflores6187 i got it, he was just shedding.
Bon Appétit
Ik delicious 😋
Hi I just got my corn snake a day ago he was supposed to eat yesterday according to the feeding records the breeder had given me he eats every seven days and he was supposed to eat yesterday but he did just get shipped and he did not eat so I left it in overnight should I be worried that he didn’t eat and try again in a week or what should I do
So your corn snake is probably stressed at the moment from being shipped and being introduced to its new home. I would give it a week to calm down, so just leave it alone. I would then try to feed it again after a week. Corn snakes are known to be good eaters, just make sure you are feeding it the right size and it should end up eating.
@@claricethecornsnake5016 ok thanks so much
@@myzoo2856 Of course, happy to help!
hi, i have a baby corn too, my corn snake is a garbage disposal tho :D give him time, atleast a week, make sure he is in quiet enviroment, if you have the snake tank in a living room or a room where is too much room, just move it somewhere where the little guy is not disturbed. check again if you are feeding the right size of a pinkie and i woulf personaly feed him the smallest one, i heard there is lower chance of him regurgitating the meal. if he doesnt eat now, contact the breeder and ask about what size of mice he was fed plus if he was fed live. i hope you have bought a snake that was already eating without any problems... your little guy should eat after that, also there is a method if you use dead mice (for a live god, please dont do that on live mice) its called braining, where you open the mouse, for my corn, i used just a specific pair of scissors, and you make a cut on the back of a DEAD mouse just to reveal blood or any tissue under the skin. some baby corns might not eat frozen and thawed because apparently, they loose a bit of scent. i hoped this insanely chaotic paragraph helped!
I thought the mouse was the baby snake…..
My baby snake I got I was told was eating live pinkies. Is that ok?
I was gonna get frozen but I’m nervous. I will start that probably next week. And how often to feed for a hatchling???
I got an wild caught gray rat snake, it's only a few weeks old, just a little bigger than the one in the video. What can I feed it with and how can I help it to adapt to frozen thawed?
Unfortunately, I don't know a lot about wild caught snakes and can't give the best or most correct information on it. The best I could give you is to do research on it and slowly try and transition to feeding it thawed mice. Use a bag when putting it in water to keep the scent of the mice however, from what I know once snakes are on live, it is very hard to change to frozen thawed. Though, since it is very young there is a chance, you can change it.
If it's only a few weeks old and wild-caught, it has probably only had a couple of meals that it has hunted if it was lucky. You will probably have to start with live and just hope that it does okay in captivity. One of the main problems with wild-caught reptiles is they were born out in the wild and won't be happy in a tank of any kind. If you bought it from someone, I really hope they worked with it at least a little bit to get it used to humans and being fed rather than hunting. There are a lot of changes that they have to adjust to and many don't thrive in captivity. I would always recommend getting captive-bred reptiles rather than an animal that was taken from its home in the wild.
Edit: A wild baby rat snake is not going to be hunting pinkie mice as the mother mouse would probably be with the babies. They typically eat frogs, lizards, and other small vertebrates. Scenting might be needed to transition to mice.
Why are most of these comments so illiterate?
Have you met the US education system? It's not exactly focused on grammar.
@@nadia9410wth how do u know these people are from the US... thats do random 😭
poor baby mouse
dont call yourself an animals lover if u just love the cute and the fluffy one
I bet this works a lot but I'm writing for those people who found a wild corn snake and are worried about it eating. I was a novice. So I bought a pinkie and did this. It was a very small snake. Only way I was successful in getting it to eat was small back yard lizards. Live! Eventually I will exchange for mice but it loves lizards. Likes to hunt them. Plus idk. I'm sure dead mice are fine but life is something special. Feeding live may be beneficial. Or I'm a dumb ads then don't listen to me.
Feeding live is ok, but I would suggest not feeding live lizards found in your backyard since they could carry diseases. As long as you are ok with feeding live, then go for it! I personally don’t like it, haha
@@claricethecornsnake5016 I trust God to give life and take it away. 😃
@LiaTheMermaid Most frozen rodents are either suffocated in a bag, drowned, have their heads smashed (typically done by personal breeders to feed their own animals), or are flash-frozen with liquid nitrogen (the fastest way and least painful way to go) so I'm not sure where you get the "peaceful departure" idea especially since nature is set up so that the snake kills whatever prey item it is going to eat.
I understand why that worked as they don't hunt pinkies in the wild but do hunt lizards and frogs and similar vertebrates.
You should never take a reptile from the wild to be a pet, just buy a captive bres one.