Corn Snake Prey Size

Video Transcript

"Okay, so how do you know what's the proper size prey item for your corn snake? Well, the first rule of thumb is that the prey item should be no bigger than the thickest part around of your snake. So don't judge by the head size because that can be very misleading. Snakes heads stretch quite a bit. However the middle section is what you need to be judging by. So if your snake is only that thick around? The thickest part? That's the size animal you should be feeding it. How many animals should you feed it? Well, that's going to depend entirely on your snake and his own metabolism. Baby corn snakes are probably going to pound one to two feeder items a week. And it will probably continue that on until they reach adult size when you can go down to probably a week and a half or so. There are different sizes of feeder mice to be looking out for as your snake grows. And it wouldn't be bad to check ahead of time at your local pet store to make sure they have those items or can at least get them for you. Again, there's the pinky that starts you off, okay. Those are going to be little baby mice. Then you have the next step up which is the fuzzy. These are mice that are going to be a little bit larger. They should just be getting some fur on. There's an individual, another size up which is called a hopper, which is kind of in between the fuzzy and the adult mouse, they're a little bit harder to find and generally aren't that readily available. And then the final size would be your adult mouse which is just an adult mouse. Nice and froze for you and ready to go. You shouldn't need to go any bigger than that for a corn snake though as they get larger and there could be some freak specimens where you need to maybe look into some small rats, medium or possibly but highly doubtful, jumbo size rats."