Pet corn snake Care Sheet: Cage and other care information
Pet corn snake Care Sheet: Cage and other care information.
Cage (Vivarium)
A 20 gallon long makes a good sized cage for an exotic pet corn snake. Even five feet long fully grown adult corn snakes, only require a cage about three feet long by fifteen to eighteen inches high by fifteen inches from front to back. In fact, this size is big enough for a pair of Corn Snakes.
It is ok to keeping two snakes in one cage, but three or more is too much. In other hand, snakes don’t like big wide open space. So, it is no good getting an adult size cage for hatchling. The wide space will stress this young corn snakes out. Read more…
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Choosing Corn Snake as exotic pet
Exotic Pet Corn Snake. The exotic Corn snakes (Elaphe guttata) make an excellent and popular pet snakes, especially for beginners, since they are relatively docile, reluctance to bit, moderate size and easy to handle and care for.
With a wide variety of different colors and patterns selective breeding has produced, however, exotic pet corn snakes also favorites with experienced keepers.
In order to obtain new corn snake specimens, most people head to a pet shop. Though the big multipurpose pet shops certainly fulfill a need in the world of pets in general, they are probably not the best place to go for exotic pet like a corn snake. It would be better off going to a small specialist reptile pet shop, where the owner really knows about reptiles, including corn snakes, and can give you solid advice about your pet snakes. Read more…
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Common Snakes Species to Keep as Pets
Common Snakes Species to Keep as Pets. So you’ve decided to get a snake as pet and now you’re wondering what kind of snake to get. There are many species of snakes that make good pets for those new to reptiles.
For beginners, starter species are recommended as these snakes are generally quite easy to care for and feed and they are also fairly easy to tame.
These snakes are also do not need to eat often, although you must be prepared to feed other animals to your snake, and most of them need whole prey such as mice and rats. Read more…
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