Feeding Young Corn Snakes

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Tim Cole with Austin Reptile Service and I've been keeping reptiles and amphibians for over forty years. We're here to talk to you about feeding young corn snakes. Hatchling corn snakes usually are pretty easy to get feeding. Most of them have been bred in captivity and will feed readily on frozen, thawed picky mice. The method I like to use is to use a small brown paper lunch sack, put the snake in there with the frozen thawed pinky and I'll paper clip it and leave it overnight, and usually that method will work for the snake to feed. If it hasn't gotten used to feeding the frozen thawed I will start off with a live pinky and do the same thing. You can also do that in a small clear deli cup and when pinky is crawling around on the baby snake it will agitate it enough that it will eventually grab it and kill it. Most corn snakes will feed on mice, but once in a while you might run across one that's a problem feeder and is going to want lizards. So small green anoles or small mediterranian geckos work to help get them started. Once they've eaten once or twice they usually switch over to pinkies pretty readily and that shouldn't be a problem. There are other methods to get the corn snakes feeding if those don't work, but rarely would you have to force feed them."