Finally got my Corn fed =)

[Elmolax]

Thanks to all of you who helped in m earlier thread...
I was gonna go buy the beef cubes that was sugegsted but I found a petsbarn that had some pinkies =)

Anywho, my corn has gotten really light in color. I fed it saturday, and it's been hiding till today. Its color has started to go away, it's really lighter. What is this? A sign of an up coming shed?

 

[Thoth]

Sounds like a shed. They eye's will go cloudy as well. Just don't handle your snake until it sheds, it stress it out unnecessarily.

 

[Elmolax]

really? dam
I need to move it baadly. About how long after it starts to get lighter will it shed?

 

[Cirith Ungol]

A few days 'til a week. It will go normal colour again just before the shed (lose the milkiness). Try to keep the substrate slightly moist during shedding times then you'll get a good and complete shed. If it is kept too dry the skin might come off in fragments, which is not so good.

 

[Elmolax]

A few days 'til a week. It will go normal colour again just before the shed (lose the milkiness). Try to keep the substrate slightly moist during shedding times then you'll get a good and complete shed. If it is kept too dry the skin might come off in fragments, which is not so good.

Thanks for the tip.
Will do. but I do wish it wouldn't burrow so much XD

 

[Cirith Ungol]

Thanks for the tip.
Will do. but I do wish it wouldn't burrow so much XD

It has 1 or 2 hides does it? Maybe it's digging to get to some extra moisture, but it could also be digging just for fun.

 

[Elmolax]

It has 1 or 2 hides does it? Maybe it's digging to get to some extra moisture, but it could also be digging just for fun.

I havent been able to find a hide yet (no money, either) any alternates I can use? (like jars?) MY corn is a little for than a foot... it's a baby. No thicker than a dime =S
How moist should I keep it? I misted the top just a little

 

[WhyTeDraGon]

get a plastic cup and either bury half of it or cut it in half, and there ya go
Got a dog bowl? The kind with the grooves on the bottom sides so there's a hide for the snake, and ontop of that, a water bowl

Anything will work pretty much, just gotta use your imagination

 

[YouLosePayUp]

The easiest least stressful way to help a corn shed is to put a tupperware container with sphagnum moss in it and a hole in the top. Thoroughly soak the moss with water. The snake will go in it get all wet and shed in one full length. then you can keep a jar with the progressive sheds

 

[Cirith Ungol]

The easiest least stressful way to help a corn shed is to put a tupperware container with sphagnum moss in it and a hole in the top. Thoroughly soak the moss with water. The snake will go in it get all wet and shed in one full length. then you can keep a jar with the progressive sheds

I hope you don't mean that spagnum moss is the single stress free method of moistening it up for a corn? j/k As mentioned before, I'm just spraying the substrate somewhat when I see a shed is coming up and I keep up the moisture level up until the shedding is complete. Then I check the tail and the eyelids on the shed and I've always gotten them off too... or they have

And in regard to hides - yeah anything non toxic or too brittle will do if it is not transluscent or has sharp egdes. Just put in an overturned frying pan, or a hollowed out remote controll or...whatever I'm just trying to say, they manage to hide wherever it is dark. And is the space a bit cramped then it's even better. Heck, that size snake would proberbly be able to curl up in a large bottle cap