this guy at work might give me a 4ft milksnake w/tank and stand for free...

[xBurntBytheSunx]

i don't know much of anything at all about snakes, anything i should know before accepting his offer?

 

[Ravnos]

If you plug 'milk snake care sheet' into Google it should come up with a huge amount of good information. Milk snakes are among some of the easiest to care for and most common captive snakes so theres is plenty of good info out there.

Rav

 

[MrT]

Take it...

 

[atavuss]

Originally posted by MrT
Take it...

I agree!
Ed

 

[Frostbyte]

I just bought a baby corn snake .. I dunno ... #1 you need to feed them pre-killed mice . Frozen -Thawed is better , and they require a hot and cold area . It can be a handful trust me

 

[Mojo Jojo]

Originally posted by Frostbyte
I just bought a baby corn snake .. I dunno ... #1 you need to feed them pre-killed mice . Frozen -Thawed is better , and they require a hot and cold area . It can be a handful trust me

Actually, you don't have to feed prekilled mice. I think that it's a good idea to do so if you can train it to do so at an early age. It reduces the risk of the mouse biting the snake. But in the wild, snakes generally eat live prey. I had a black ratsnake that I raised from an egg and kept for 9 years. It wouldn't touch dead food. Although if I knew then at the time that it hatched what I knew now, I would have started it on prekilled food.

Jon