Reddit reviews Corn Snakes: The Comprehensive Owner's Guide (The Herpetocultural Library)
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I like this book mostly because it was written by Bill and Kathy Love who are well known and respected corn breeders. www.cornsnakes.com is a very helpful forum website.
Some people say a corn that's under 3 years old should eat once a week while others like to feed very young corns more frequently. The Munson plan is sometimes considered a bit aggressive but I like it young corns close to this. When it says four to five days I'll usually feed pinkies every 5 days, fuzzies every 6 days, and hoppers and adult mice once a week. When they're young, they'll often shed about once a month.
The color is of a hypo lavender (I just picked up a little female hypo lavender myself! Her and her normal pattern for comparison ) and the pattern is motley. It may have sunkissed in there too and that reduces the head pattern slightly and tends to make them brighter. Males do tend to be brighter and smaller but there's no guarantee for that. Keep in mind that as babies, most corn morphs will change color slightly with each shed, so if you get a baby it's not going to look exactly the same as an adult.
There doesn't seem to be a required minimum for handling but some snakes do respond better to being handled less often as it can be stressful but it really comes down to the individual snake. Twice a week is typically fine but I wouldn't handle the snake at all once it starts to go into a shed or before it settles into the new home and is eating well.
Spot clean when you see poop and total deep clean once every couple of months though some people say every month. To me, if you're spot cleaning it doesn't seem necessary to do it every month.
If you keep them on aspen, I would be careful about misting as it can mold. You can give them a moist hide though they usually shed fine at 40% humidity which is pretty normal for most places.
Getting a bigger enclosure is fine so long as you make the snake feel hidden by "cluttering" the tank with foliage and hides.
Having a dog shouldn't be an issue so long as you keep the snake out of harms way. I haven't seen any of my snakes react to the presence of the dogs unless the dog tries to get close. Freezing, the "s" shape stance, and high tailing it in the other direction are good indicators of being stressed.
temperature sounds about right, cool side should be about 70° and warm around 86°.
I read a lot online, plus bought a book. I think the best info I found was linked on this reddit, plus these:
also something I forgot to mention but is dead important: check these things:
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