Corn Snake

Corn snakes are popularly known as rat snake. The beautiful colors, wide range of variety and proper adjustment to captive environment makes corn snake most popular among pet snake. In the captive environment snake can live up to 15-20 years with proper care. They are commonly found in southeastern and central United States. Corn snake owners should feed rodents or other small animals to their corn snakes.

Corn snakes are a bit shy in nature and usually active at night. Since mostly corn snake remain inactive in winter, therefore, they hardly prefer anything to eat in that season. Insecurity can make them feel aggressive. So you should fulfill their basic requirements in order to make them feel secure. Corn snake have very good metabolism structure. This helps them to stay alive even in low oxygen and with low blood pressure level. An average corn snake can grow up to 3-5 feet long.

Requirements of corn snakes:

1. Corn snake feed: Corn snake diet includes rodents, birds, eggs, and small lizards. Although Corn snake have teeth but they are non- venomous. Corn snakes swallow their prey whole Mostly corn snake prepare their food by killing their prey, wrapping it, then squeezing it and allowing the prey to suffocate. Adult corn snake likes to be fed with rodents and occasionally with bird’s egg.
2. Reproduction in corn snake: Corn snakes are one of the most easily bred snake reptile. Corn snake mostly breed in the month of April-June. For best breeding, bromating of 3 months at 55-58 degree Fahrenheit is required. Copulation in corn snakes usually occur in night, at times corn snakes can start copulation after being fed and after shedding as well. During summer season, the female corn snake will lay the eggs in about 20- 30 days after copulation. One should keep the eggs of corn snakes in an efficient incubator so eggs can have sufficient heat and humidity to hatch. The higher the temperature, sooner the eggs hatch. At times it can cause problem in hatching. Therefore, the temperature of incubator should be kept at 80 – 84 degree Fahrenheit. Eggs will hatch in next 30 – 55 days. The average Baby corn snake can grow up to 8 to 14 inches long. Corn snake hatchlings should be fed on small frogs, nesting rodents, etc. One should take proper care of baby corn snake as very few of them survive till the adult hood.
3. Handling of corn snake: Corn snakes are easy to handle. Constant care will help your pet to be stress free. One should try to spend ample time with their pet corn snakes as they love to move around. One should never allow corn snake to wrap around your body while holding it. Corn snakes can become nervous if introduced to new environment or new people. They require some time to get familiar with the people around it.