S'N'A Introducing Series: Episode 48 - Corn Snakes (An In Depth Look)
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Snakes ‘N’ Adders
Introducing Series
Episode: 48 - Corn Snakes; a in depth look
(Pantherophis guttatus)
• First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766 as Coluber Guttatus (Spotted Snake)
• As always went through a number of changes of genus and species (29 changes in total). In that time has been a member of Elaphe, Scotophis, Coryphodon and Elaphis. Before settling on its current home. Pantherophis.
• Pantherophis guttatus translates as Spotted Panther (like) snake.
• This is a medium sized Rat Snake usually maturing to around 5ft. Claims are made pretty regularly about 6ft+ animals but I would take these with a pinch of salt. Would be keeper should expect a snake that matures to between 3.5 and 4.5ft in length.
• Corn Snakes utilize constriction to subdue their prey. Over generations of captivity however this behaviour seems to be leaving them.
• Corn Snakes occur on the South Eastern Seaboard of the United States. They are known to occur in 10 states including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, Alabama, Mississippi and Southern Tennessee.
• The majority of their natural range would be considered coast plain with a sea level below 50m.
• They have been recorded at up to heights of around 750m.
• This accounts for the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia and regions of the Carolinas.
• LOOK AT THE MAP AND SHOW THE CHANGES IN ELEVATION.
• Corn Snakes across their entire range occur mainly in Pine Forests although other woods do occur. These are:
• LOOK AT THE MAP AND LIST THE FOREST TYPES IN THEIR LOCALITY.
• Corn Snakes are highly adaptable to the environment they find themselves in, being equally at home in the harsh pine barrens of New Jersey or the subtropical swamp of Southern Florida and tropical grassland and forest of the lower Florida Keys.
• This is one of the defining reasons why Corn Snakes have been so successful in captivity. Adaptability. More troublesome is the fact they are willing to survive in some outright wrong or dangerous rigs as well. Furthering the numpty brigades cause. If they weren’t so damn durable the arguments of the advancement lobby would have carried so much more weight.
• This range from north to south is a little over 1800km as the crow flies (Newark to Key Largo)
• East to West from North Carolina to Mississippi is 1000km roughly.
• CORN SNAKES ARE OFTEN ONLY ASSOCIATED WITH FLORIDA (PARTICULARLY IN THE UK) - AS WE CAN SEE THIS IS ERRONEOUS. SHOW ON MAP.
• Corn Snakes are now a species on their own but were once grouped with Great Plains Rat Snakes and the Rosy Rat Snake. The Great Plains was elevated to its own species status and the Rosy Rat Snake was rolled in with the Corn Snake.
• Slowinski’s Corn Snake now is recognised to occur in the area previously denoted as the hybridisation zone for Great Plains and Corn Snakes.
• Intermontana snakes occur much further North and West than the other subspecies and are truly isolated from other populations.
• Natural localities exist. You will see these in captivity. They loosely follow a set of rules about how that locale should look. Of course we can’t confirm they are from this locale merely that they look like the wild snakes from that locale. These include ‘Carolina Corns’ (incidently the type locality being south Carolina, ‘Miami Corns’ and ‘Okeetee’ Corns.
• Amelanistic Corn Snakes born without black pigment became the entrance to the rabbit hole most if not all Corn Snake keepers have disappeared down. With so many people keeping and breeding Corn Snakes animals with genetic aberrancies were bound to show up. Intially these also included Anerythrystic and hypomelanistic. This was then the birth of the combo.
• BRIEF EXPLAINATION OF GENETICS.
• NORMAL TO AMELANISTIC
• HET TO HET
• ¼ AMEL 66% POSS HET
• TAKE TWO RECESSIVE AND THE ODDS LENGTHEN
• AMEL TO ANERY
• 100% DOUBLE HET
• ONLY 1 IN 16 STATISTICALLY WILL BE A SNOW.
• THE BIRTH OF HIGH VALUE, SOUGHT AFTER SNAKES.
• Discuss the base morphs now in existence.
• show the combos and market names now in exists.
• Finally we need to look at the natural climate and variations for the Corn Snake. Whilst there is a pattern to follow, nuanced change between localities is the be expected. Florida is an aberrancy compared to the rest especially when we consider rainfall.
• BRUMATION
• REPRODUCTION (HYBRIDISATION) - TURBO, JUNGLE, PUEB
• GESTATION
• OVIPOSITION
• INCUBATION
• HATCHING
• ESTABLISHMENT OF BABIES.
FYI, i live in southern NJ, a quick ride away from the pine barrens....my dad lives in the pines and i hike/ ride my bicycle there regularly. Spent a summer there at camp as a child.
The Pine Barrens is a largely undeveloped forest made up primarily of runty, long-needled conifers we call "scrub pines." It's considered to be a very unique ecosystem, but there are very similar smaller pine forests in the sandhills of South Carolina....the Pine Barrens treefrog, Hyla andersoni, lives in the Jersey pine barrens and the SC sandhill region in the northestern end of the state.
But, anyway, the NJ pine barrens sit atop a massive aquifer. Despite the ubiquitous presence of white quartz sand (the locals call it "sugar sand;" it is similar to what one finds on a beach or in a desert....) and the fact that things can seem quite dry b/c the sand drains so quickly, the pine barrens full of bogs, springs, streams, rivers, ponds, etc. The pine barrens are the home of the cranberry bogs that provide most of the cranberries for the US. My point is, the pine barrens has no shortage of water except in times of extreme draught (common in the 1990s/2000s, not so much nowadays) and whenever i see colubrids wild in the pines, they are within a fairly short distance from the dark waters of the pine barrens, which is colored like tea from the plentiful cedar tannins and iron ore in the region.
My common South Carolina cornsnake is in a literal snake mansion. Huge viv with lots of space, branches, isopods, plants from the south eastern United States, basking spot with a deep heat projector, ventilation and lighting on one side so there's both a light, heat, and humidity gradient, etc. It's been quite happy in its setup and it deserves it being my first snake. I can't imagine putting her in a tiny box with aspen lol
I just bought a baby corn snake this week and definitely spoiled her with a heavily furnished enclosure. Anytime my roommate questions something I'm like "bruh there's literally snakes in tupperware and paper towels" lol
Amazing video, I am a new corn snake keeper and picked mine up 2 weeks ago and is still a hatchling. I did so much research and preparation but have found your video super informative. I've dreamt of having a corn snake from being in primary school and my partner finally said yes for my birthday!
I own a Corn Snake I named her Medusa I love working with her Corn Snakes are great pet Snakes
Thumbs up for this! I agree corns are underrated and taken for granted. Thanks for this!
Thank you for taking the time to do such an in depth talk about Corns. Really enjoyed it.
Nice job! Corns are great snakes.
Wow glad I found this. Best in depth information I’ve found so far. Looking forward to watching more videos!
Thank you for this video. My first snake, of course :-), was a corn snake. He is now three years old, 5 feet long. And he has the strongest strike and coil of any snake I have. I always kind of wondered when I first got him and was doing a ton of research how people came up with low humidity requirements etc. The southeastern United States is humid compared to much of the rest of the country. And such a huge variety of environments also. Which you explained very well here. I do think they are very underrated and taken for granted. Endless morphs but also beautiful wild types. Their popularity became their curse. Because they are available everywhere so cheaply people don’t take it seriously when they get them as pets sometimes. It’s really too bad because they are great snakes. Great videos, keep them coming.
Nice! Thanks for doing this man! I love your videos and I'm glad you revisited corns 👍😃👍
it needed doing mate, i was guilty as i think many others are. They are a snake that is taken for granted.
That is sick 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Well put again there! My first snakes surprise surprise were corns. Wish I had kept them with as much care as I do now with my boa nearly 2 decades later. Also, would bloody love to see you out and about herping one of these days. Sure it would make for some truly wicked episode! Cheers mate...
Herping in the UK? For what? Worms? We've got sod all except adder etc or have I read wrong mate?😳
@@simon5856 😉 plenty of herping opportunities on the continent during Summer, mate...
Enjoyed this episode. But as a native Floridian and long-time herper, I know there's not a lot of longleaf/slash pine habitats left. Most of it was cleared years ago. I'd have to disagree that it makes up the majority of corn snake habitat in this state. They can, in fact, be found in almost every habitat here.
In the Journal of Herpetology I found an article on venom resistance in selected North American colubrids. Surprisingly, the corn snake was shown to be immune to venom from the Cottonmouths, Copperheads and Prairie Rattlesnakes. Here's a link to the article: www.researchgate.net/publication/273075279_Variability_of_Venom-Neutralizing_Properties_of_Serum_from_Snakes_of_the_Colubrid_Genus_Lampropeltis
Just scroll down and you'll see it. It can also be downloaded as a PDF file.
Hi Chaz, thanks for this excellent, detailed video. Your observation about pine needles certainly gives food for thought!
A lot of the information is good...BUT okeetee (pronounced Oak-a-tea) corn snakes originated on the Okeetee hunt club in Jasper County South Carolina. First described bt Carl Kaulfield in his book Snakes and Snake hunting in 1957. I have had the privilege of herping in Jasper County and many of the corns there do look like what captive breeders refer to okeetee corn snakes. In Florida many corns are rather dull, but Miami corns tend to have gray or brownish background color, but not as beautiful as line bred Miami corn snakes which are largely attributed to the breeding efforts of Kathy Love in the 1980's. Something missed in the video is how many Florida corns appear to be naturally occurring hybrids between yellow rat snakes and corn snakes...showing lateral striping. I have never seen corns in Delaware, but I have seen gravid New Jersey corns that were gravid under 30".
Great video with lots of information most keepers don’t bother to learn.
great video! I actually got my first corn yesterday, so perfect timing! I've been doing research for months and they're undoubtedly the best snake in my book, glad to see some new videos on them.
Love the video, rewatching because I'm getting a corn. What substrate do you believe is best for them??
nice movie man perfect ,gg
Greetings! So I bought a baby corn snake a few months ago from a reptile convention and she has been a non eater. Her set up is the same as my 2 other snakes and they are great eaters. I have assist fed her several times because I was worried about her and I have tried the following things. Frozen pinkies that have been brained, pinkies that have been scented with chicken, or fish, pinkies that have been heated up to over 100f, F/T pinkies split in half, and I have tried offering baby chicken legs to no avail. I haven't tried feeding anything live to her yet because it's hard to find live pinkies here. Any thoughts or recommendations?
hi great snake can i ask a question i got a six mouth old corn snake he is about 22 inches long do you know what size vivarium can i put him in please
So a shoe box n some bog roll won't do? 😂🤭(I am actually joking)👍