Corn Snake Terrarium Tips

Video Transcript

" On behalf of Expert Village I'm Nicole and I'm here to tell you about corn snakes. Corn snakes are best kept in a glass aquarium with a screen top just like most other captive snakes. They do not require high humidity so no need for humidifiers they do need a hide cave and corn snakes are climbers. They really like to climb on the branches so stick with a lot of different twigs and branches on it. That will be something your corn snake really enjoys. Keeping a large bowl of water is very important because when they are getting ready to shed such as this one. His color has dulled out a little bit they need to be able to soak themselves to loosen that skin in order to keep from having any problems with shedding, such as retaining skin or eye caps. Corn snakes do not need to be kept in a very high temperature they can easily live with just a supplemental basking light during the day time preferably during the afternoon. You have keep a heat light on it all times but they don't need to be kept very hot. So if you do use a heat light keep a lower wattage so your snake is able to cool itself off when it needs to. Make sure again to keep the snakes heat light on one end of the cage in the burrow on the other side of the cage so they can thermal regulate themselves."