How to raise corn snake best?

Corn snake generally refers to corn brocade snake, also known as red rat snake, corn snake, etc., is a snake of the snake family, known as the most popular pet snake, color is changeable, temperament is docile, and food is simple, adult body shape is moderate, can easily take a handle to play with, so corn snake is very suitable as an entry breed, let's take a look at how to raise corn snake best!

Morphological characteristics of Corn Snake

The corn snake has a total length of 80 to 120 cm, up to 182 cm, with many colors, usually gray, grayish brown to khaki, orange, etc., with these colors as the background, with red or reddish brown markings with black edges, thick and light checkered markings on the abdomen, and straight stripes on the ventral part of the tail, and some gray individuals have black checkered patterns on the abdomen, so it is also called "corn snake". Corn snake is the most variable subspecies. Snakes in the same nest have stripes of horizontal and vertical bands, and have developed a variety of body color changes, such as albino, yellowing, reddish and colorless, vertical stripes.

How long is the life of a corn snake?

The life span of corn snakes is not very long, usually about 14 years or 20 years. If the growing environment is good, corn snakes with superior breeding conditions can also live for more than 20 years, which has a lot to do with their living environment. Artificial breeding corn snakes need to pay attention to the temperature, corn snakes favorite temperature is about 30 degrees, when the temperature drops, the digestive ability decreases, which is also the characteristic of cold-blooded animals, if the corn snake feeding temperature is lower than 26 degrees Celsius, eating food can easily lead to indigestion and enteritis over a long period of time. Therefore, the life span of the corn snake is closely related to the breeding environment we give him.

Living habits of Corn Snake

The vast majority of corn snakes entering China are raised in captivity through selected variants. Should follow the artificial conditions of feeding, should not feed fish, eggs, etc., artificial corn snakes to small mammals as the staple food, often choose mice. Feed suckling mice when young, snakes should be fed to suckling mice for one year, and gradually increase. The temperature is controlled at 28-31 degrees, digestion is slow below 26 degrees, and it is not suitable for feeding. Enteritis is easy to occur below 24 degrees.

Feeding methods of corn snakes

Corn snakes can be raised in a relatively simple, high and wide, well-ventilated and strong feeding box, with a solid top cover at the top to prevent escape. Dead wood, artificial turf or newspapers, hidden stone caves, etc. can be placed in the box to prepare withered branches for peeling, as well as water basins for drinking water and bathing. There should be crawler lights to keep warm. Small mice can be fed each time at intervals of 7 to 10 days, do not be too large or too many, otherwise they will vomit, do not disturb them after each meal, so as not to cause vomiting and death.

Precautions of Corn Snake

1. Corn snakes have to make all the preparations before entering the house. They need to prepare snake boxes, heating equipment, water drinking equipment and suckling mice of the right size as food. Don't wait until you buy a snake before thinking about it. Just bought corn snakes due to changes in the environment, temperature, light, smell, vibration are not the same as the original, coupled with the snakes are more sensitive to environmental factors, prone to tension, hiding from the problem. Therefore, just bought corn snakes, need to let them rest quietly for a few days, give it a quiet environment, clean water and shelter, must not play or rush to feed.

2. It is normal for a corn snake not to eat when it has just come home. It needs a process of adapting to the new environment, and it will eat slowly. However, if your snake is too small, if the suckling mouse is too big for your baby, you will not eat it. If you feed the mouse tail or half a mouse first, the smell of rat brain or lizard will attract the snake even more. Don't stare at it. Snakes in the wild are vulnerable to attack when eating, so if you have noticed that other animals are paying attention, they will not be willing to eat.

3. Snakes are relatively independent animals. They generally move alone and only look for mates with each other during the mating season. If multiple snakes are mixed at the same time, it is easy to cause the problem of snake eating. It is absolutely necessary to avoid putting different kinds of snakes in the same feeding box. The young corn snake will not mind living in a very small place, the key is to have their own world, not to have companions who often disturb it.

4. The advantage of using newspaper as the base material of corn snake box is that it is easy to find excreta and clean it up very quickly, although the visual effect is not the best. The newspaper should not bring a new one to the cushion box as soon as it is read. It is better to spread it out in the sun. Do not use fine sand. Fine sand is easily sucked into the respiratory tract and lungs. Do not use fir bark. It is poisonous.