Corn Snake Diets

Video Transcript

"Alright, now were going to discuss feeding, and proper diet for your corn snake. When you buy your corn snake, chances are it's probably going to be a baby, and he is going to be eating what we like to call "pinkies", which are basically new born mice. You can also get hamster pinkies, gerbil pinkies, rat pinkies, though those are all going to be a bit bigger. Mice pinkies are going to be extremely readily available in the reptile industry. You should be able to but it at any well stocked local pet store. Preferably you want to buy them frozen. A lot of people are going to tell you, well I want to see my snake eat, I like feeding them alive. Here's the problem with that. Feeding live animals to reptiles not only increases the chance of you being bit, because they are associating movement with eating more, but, there is an increasing chance of your reptile being bit. Mice are not friendly little buggers. They like to bite, and especially if you take a mouse and you're introducing it into the reptile?s environment. So, say you have an adult corn snake and you have an adult mouse and you're putting it in the corn snakes cage to feed it. The mouse knows the corn snakes there, it's not a natural way of feeding. Generally, the corn snake is going to enter the mouse's environment in the wild and attack the mouse, not the other way around. Reptiles do not heal well, so a simple mouse bit to a reptile can in many instances bring upon death."