Baby Corn Snake Food

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Baby corn snake food.

For example a hatchling or baby corn snake might start out eating lizards or small frogs which are small and easy to catch and swallow. This typically includes lizards frogs rodents birds and eggs but they may also consume other snakes or insects from time to time. However in captivity it is typically wisest to feed your corn snake a rodent based diet. The size of the snake will determine the size of the feeder mouse.

Feed your snake one mouse every week. Corn snakes that live as zoo captives eat similar meals think chicks and rodents. As you probably noticed in the guidelines at the top of the page a hatchling can handle a pinkie newborn mouse and an adult snake can handle an adult mouse. Keeping your pet healthy and fed should always be your top priority.

Mice are the most popular corn snake food as they grow along with the snake. In this video 16 year old pierce curren of tv s scaly adventures feeds one of his baby corn snakes. You should see whether your corn snake seems interested in food after 5 days have elapsed by dangling a pinkie in front of it. In the wild corn snakes are pretty opportunistic predators who eat a variety of prey species.

Mice aren t the only appropriate type of corn snake sustenance however. As the baby corn snake grows up his diet may expand to include larger and more challenging prey such as bats birds rats and mice as well as eggs. Baby corn snakes should be fed pinkie mice. Corn snakes eat mice in the wild and in captivity.

The live rodent should not be left in your corn snake s enclosure for more than 1 hour. The young ones also occasionally eat frogs and lizards while their grownup counterparts occasionally consume birds and bird eggs.