Corn Snake Cages

Video Transcript

"The next thing we're going to discuss a little bit is the proper caging of your corn snake. Now you're probably going to buy him as a baby. So something like a 15 gallon is going to be more than enough for your baby corn snake. You want something that's long for this type of snake. They're not a big tree dweller. They're not going to be doing a lot of climbing. But they need a lot of floor space. So long and wide if you can. Start off with a 15 gallon. As he grows you're going to want to upgrade. Probably, maybe, if you could to a 40 gallon breeder. They're just a great overall size for most reptiles. Lots of room. Lots of space to move around. Very important for all snakes and really any reptile. But very, very important for snakes is you have a properly fitting screen top. That screen top needs to fit nice and snug on top of your cage. Okay? It should be very tight when you put it on. You need to make sure that it's a very heavy metal screen. Don't buy anything that's cheap or plastic. You don't want any plastic on your screen top as you will have heating elements on it. Also you're going to want cage clips for your screen top. Okay. These are very simple devices. And all they are is they just lock onto the side of the screen top and hold it down securely. Snakes are strong animals. They are basically one giant long muscle. Imagine if your arm was disconnected and could do whatever it wanted to do. They can push and put a lot of pressure on things. All they need is that little bit of space to sneak out and you no longer have a snake. So make sure you're a responsible herp keeper and make sure you have a proper screen top and screen locking devices whatever they may be."