Corn Snake Handling Safety Tips

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Nicole and I'm here to tell you about Corn Snakes. The safety of your snake something you need to consider before actually bringing your snake home. You need to make sure that because corn snakes are very small especially as juveniles, they can fit through any little opening that they have available in their house. You need to make sure there are no small openings in the cage or the top of the cage and you need to make sure they don't have access directly to the heat, heat bulbs or heat pads or anything that you are using as a heat source. They don't need to have direct contact with it. Now we also need to make sure that they're, anything you put in the cage, any sticks you use for them to climb on, make sure you purchase those from a pet store because pulling a stick out of your back yard could easily poison your snake because if your yard has ever been sprayed with insecticides it will stick in that wood for years to come and there's a good possibility that you will poison your snake. Now if you do use stones or sticks or something from outdoors, something that you find. Then what you need to do is you need to bake it in an oven at about 350 degrees for 1 1/2 to 2 hours and that should rid it of any parasites or toxins that is on the stick or the rock, whatever you want to put in the home. "