Care of Snakes

Patience and perseverance. Most reptiles, though never actually becoming 'tame', will get used to being handled. If you're bothered about being bitten - wear thick gloves during the early stages of handling. Once you're confident the snake has accepted you're not going to hurt it - you can discard the gloves. A corn snakes bite is harmless (although painful) and can be treated with antiseptic.

put dead rats in there once they eat it it will swallow for a half a minute so 30 sec. so one they are swallowing get a old cage or a weapon like an axe cut its head off.

Hognose snakes are a pretty docile species. Also - they don't grow very big (about 18 inches !)

milk

The same kinds you do: stomach acid, amino acids, deoxyribonucleic acids... the only one that's actually noticeably corrosive is stomach acid.

Snake venom is not particularly acidic, if that's what you were thinking. Any cartoon or show that depicts "snake venom" eating through a metal floor or melting a metal spoon or something along those lines is indulging in a bit of hyperbole.

The large snakes generally eat rats, while the smaller ones eat crickets.

Abiotic factors are living things like predators, prey, and bushes so three abiotic factors could be, coyotes, mice or bushes. Biotic factors are non-living things. Three biotic factors could be, rocks, water, and sunlight. These things are all natural but another biotic factor could be something un-natural like plastic someone has thrown away or any other non-biodegradeable items.

well it really depends on alot of things but i have a rat snake too. when they r little, u feed them "pinkies" or small mice. and as they get older you move to "fuzzies", "weened", and "full grown". you should probably feed them frozen because sometimes the live ones fight back and hurt the snake.

during the winter, feed it once every two weeks and any other season, once a week.

happy i could help!

I got mines on sale for $40 at petsmart. We already had a glass aquarium, but im guessing about another $40 for a good sized cage. Maybe another $20-$30 for the aspen wood chips, hide hut, ect. Corn have to be fed outside of their cage, so if you do reach out to pick him up, your fingers dont look like a mouse, so a cheap $10 small transportation cage is what you want too....so, alltogether, approximatly $120. hope that helps!

They do not. A snakes' lower jawbone is only loosely connected to their upper jawbone. The lower jaw is made up of two bones that are connected by an elastic, or stretchy, tissue, so the snake can open its mouth very wide (several times as big as its own head), accommodating a relatively large animal.

No, some snakes will accidently eat some of the dust when swallowing the mice or what ever the food is and over time it can cause a blockage and some serious problems. The best is to get the carpet

Snakes belly scales are called stomach scales

it all depends, just like any animal it need proper attention from cage cleaning to handling and feeding. I would recommend trying to learn a little about owning them as a pet so you know its feeding times and how to handle/care for it. Remember they do tend to get very large so you have to be prepared for that as well and know it eventually will happen and you need to be able to accommodate for that. Just a tip never hold a snake during its shedding period they tend to have blurry eyesight from this and may end up biting you by mistake also i wouldn't recommend handling it after feeding.

They don't 'give birth' - they lay eggs - about 60 days after mating. The eggs take a further 60 days to hatch.

It's rare to have a snake shed that quickly - unless it's under a year old. Most young snakes (up to 2 years old) will shed every 8-10 weeks, as they're growing fast. Adult snakes can go more than a year between shedding.

Snakes generally strike very fast and let go, so it is not terribly painful with a small snake like a corn snake, probably similar to a paper cut.

Corn snakes , although docile , can bite. they dont have fangs , just a few very tiny teeth . and it doesnt hurt , just a few pricks

When a snake sheds its skin, you will first see little flakes of it come off, when you see this make the surroundings slightly more humid and give your snake fresh water daily and a place to hide.Then eventually, the snake will rub its skin off on rocks or anything else it can find, then the skin should come off in one whole piece.If not then your snake might not be so healthy...hope this helped XD

no a corn snake contains no venom what so ever :)

yes

Pampiress-
I power feed my snakes. I have a 3 foot Ball Python, a 5 foot Ball Python, and a 12 foot Burmese Python. With our two Balls, we feed once a month usually (unless cash flow lets us feed weekly) and they do fine with it. We feed the 3 foot either 4 small white mice or one medium rat. The 5 foot, we feed her either 6 small whites or two medium rats. Our 12 foot, we feed either 5 extra large rats or three rabbits. Although it is safe to power feed a Burmese, it is not advisable. They will go into a feeding frenzy. They will eat as long as you are putting food in with them. They will over gorge themselves, for they have no stopping sense when it comes to eating. They will eat even if they are not hungry.

Actually, yes, there are some snakes who eats crickets. There are many snake breeds who are too small to even eat pinkie mice, so crickets are another good way for snakes to get nourishment and not starve.

A few of these snakes include:

Green Whip Snakes (Who also eat other small insects)

Several species of Shovel Nose Snakes

Green Grass Snakes

As well as Northern Brown Snakes, but I do not know if they can be have as pets.

The average is around 66 inches (1.67 m) but there are always exceptions.

have u checked the cage? If not try looking in small dark places i have a Bearded dragon and he likes to be in small dark places he will dig under is log and stay there and he will curl up in my hand. Have good luck finding your lizard

Yes.