Cornsnakes

Alright, I am definitely a pet person, and other exotic pets are going to come up in this blog in the future, but for right now, I'm going into one of my favorite pets, cornsnakes.

I know that not everybody is a herp (reptile) lover and I understand that there is definitely a stigma to owning reptiles. Fortunately there are also tons of people who just don't understand that stigma, and know the truth that most reptiles are enjoyable pets that are easy to keep.

There are some reptile that are considered "starter reptiles" because their maintenance and needs are comparatively simple. Cornsnakes definitely fall into this category, but that doesn't mean that they aren't really enjoyable pets for anyone who likes a pet that isn't the cuddly type.

This is a picture of one of my own cornsnakes, Kama Tui, and in this picture she is really just a neonate. She's grown to about 20 inches long and is definitely into the yearling phase of her growth. She will eventually reach about 5 foot long and be about 2-3 inches in diameter. Right now she eats mice that are about a week old, but will eventually be all the way up to rats, cornsnakes are red rat snakes after all. She eats once a week and she is a pretty good eater. Other than that, I hold her some during the week, but not so much as to stress her out, just enough to keep her calm when being handled.

I've got four of these snakes. Mushu is an orange-red coral snow, Yuki is a gray-brown Miami phase, Konami is a butter (shades of yellow), and Kama Tui, as you can see, is a hypomelanistic that is shades of brown.