- Corn snakes are an animal that we talked about
quite a bit in the past but I haven't done as many videos
on them recently.
So I wanna update basically all the corn snake videos
and I'm redoing the entire care guide on the site.
Depending on when you're watching this,
it might not be updated just yet
but that'll be coming soon.
But to get started today, I wanted to give you some pros
and cons on keeping corn snakes.
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So, they're simple.
They're easy to care for.
They're small.
They're enclosures aren't too big.
These are all the reasons that you hear everywhere.
There's lots of videos on it, nothing very new.
So in this, I'll try and dig a bit deeper and explain some
of the reasons as to why I think you may or may not
want to get a corn snake.
So the very first pro is that they're great for beginners.
But I don't think this is the case
because they just have easy requirements.
I think it's more so because they are such hardy animals
and they can really survive in the improper set up
for much longer than other animals.
Obviously, you do not want to purposefully give them
something incorrect and if you see
that you're making a error,
you wanna fix it as quickly as possible
but you have more time to do so.
For example, there might be some species of snakes
or other reptiles, there's animals where if they're
in the wrong set up or wrong conditions or wrong temperature
or something for just a little too long, maybe it's
a few hours to a few days, then that doesn't give you
very much time and that could actually end up killing them.
Meanwhile, with corn snakes, if it's a few hours, a few days
even a few weeks, months or maybe even a couple years
of the wrong set up, most of the time, there's going to be
a much higher chance that that corn snake
will recover easily and maybe not even be affected.
Now, years is pushing it.
However, Gobi actually was in terrible conditions
for quite a while.
You can see the very first video I did with him
when I got him a few years ago
and he managed to survive those awful conditions
for quite a while and now he's a pretty healthy snake.
So, you don't wanna make errors but you have more time
to make mistakes which is why it might be good
for a beginner.
Even if the corn snake isn't the happiest
in the wrong conditions, at least it will survive
and give you that time to really learn with it.
Basically, do your best to set it up properly
but if you notice that you made a mistake,
there's a higher chance that they'll be perfectly fine
compared to a lot of other species.
Next up, we can go to a con,
that being that they're just not unique.
At this point, they are everywhere.
There are certain morphs.
You don't see this morph every day
but if someone owns a snake, there's a very high chance
it's gonna be a corn snake or a ball python, of course,
but if you're talking to other reptile keepers
and you're like, "Oh, I heard of corn snake."
It's not some amazing species that they've never heard of.
I'm sure they've known about them.
They probably even cared for them.
Kind of like in the lizard world,
everyone owns a bearded dragon except for me.
In the snake world, everyone owns a corn snake.
Now, you don't have to treat this as a con.
This could be a perfectly okay thing with you
and you shouldn't base what you want just because
a lot of other people have it.
But they're everywhere.
I'm not bored of them but I'm so used to seeing them
that it's not some super amazing special thing
when I see a picture of a corn snake.
Hopefully, you get what I'm saying.
Now, the next pro actually comes off of the con
that I just mentioned,
that being that because they're kept so much,
people have just perfected their husbandry.
If you have a question, you're gonna have no difficulty
finding someone to teach you how to properly care for it.
If you have an issue, chances are, plenty of other people
have had that same issue.
Now, if you're keeping a species
that's really not kept often or there's a lot of controversy
around how it's kept, which that's with every reptile,
but basically, there's no lack of information.
You can always find someone to turn to
and answer your question.
You can always find a care guide to teach you
how to do something and you'll pretty much always relate
to some other keeper
because everyone has so much experience with them
as a whole that you don't have to freak out about some weird
unknown thing going on with your snake.
Next up is a con.
This is the most annoying con for me,
that being, I personally think they are really not good
for handling.
Obviously, I'm working with it here but as babies
especially, they can be very fast, a bit slippery
and just ready to scoot away from you.
Now, pythons and boas tend to be much slower,
much more chill, they don't freak out,
they're not all slinky but meanwhile, colubrids,
specifically corn snakes it seems like a lot more often
they just get so active,
they move around so much that it gets a little bit annoying.
Now, this isn't a reason to not get a corn snake
and if you do want an animal to handle, it's definitely
something you'll get used to.
But Gobi is probably the most difficult animal to not only
hold but also to shoot and make videos with
because he's just everywhere constantly.
This is the first time he's stopped moving.
He gets all over the mic all over.
He wraps onto everything.
And they spend lots of times in trees.
I don't know if they're semiarboreal.
Are they semiarboreal?
They like to chill in trees a lot.
With that, they are just really good
at holding onto something and they feel uncomfortable
when they don't have something to latch onto.
His tail, pretty much, always loops around whatever's there
so that's that last little bit of support.
If you just put him in the middle of the room, they might
panic a little bit because they have nothing
to be secured on to.
The worse thing is when he gets into the shelving.
It takes forever to get him out of it because he wraps up
around these things all over it and he just keeps looping
through and he's really fast.
Not the easiest snake on earth to handle
but it's definitely manageable.
It's not too hard.
A really simple way to figure this out
to see if it's a good snake for you to handle
is you can just try and find a local one that you can just
go chill out with at a pet store or an expo or something.
So we went over all the main ones.
There's one extra little pro that I have
which I might have mentioned it in the past,
I'm not entirely sure
but that being that they pretty much always stick to mice
their entire life while eating.
So basically any animal that gets larger than a corn snake
or any snake that gets larger than a corn snake is going
to have to move on to rats at some point in its life.
Rats tend to be more expensive, sometimes more difficult
to find as some of you have said and switching them over
to rats can be a bit of a difficulty.
A ball python, for example, I'm pretty sure they're always
gonna have to move up to rats because mice just simply
end up too small for them.
Sometimes, it's a super smooth transition with ball pythons.
They go from mice to rats without an issue.
Other times, it's really difficult and people wish
that they started them on rats very early on
so that they didn't have to deal with it later.
Corn snakes, however, Gobi here is pretty much full size.
He just shed so he's still very slowly growing.
However, he can just go on adult or jumbo mice.
I had him on jumbo but I moved him to adult because jumbos
are starting to make him a little bit fat soon probably
if I keep feeding them to him.
But rats are really something you never have to think about
as a corn snake owner so that can be pretty convenient.
So there we go.
I'm sure I've missed a lot and obviously there's lots
of others that are just repeated everywhere
but hopefully, these are a bit more unique
and maybe something new that you had not heard before.
Let me know any other reasons that you can think of
in the comments to this video and whether you're considering
corn snakes, whether you already have one.
You might already have one since they are just so popular,
but that can be a nice thing.
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But that'll be it for this video.
Keep a look out for the corn snake care guide
which will hopefully be out soon
along with lots of other corn snake content.
That's it for this video.
I'm Alex and thanks for watching.
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