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Alright, so heres the deal...
I don't know if any of you recall my thread from a few months back where I was trying to figure out what was wrong with my sisters blizzard corn snake, and in the end we lost the snake. We're pretty sure we had the set up basically right, but we've got another one coming our way. We've already placed the order, but its going to be awhile 'till it gets here. We're getting it from Glades herp and he won't send it out until it's shed 6 times and eaten or something like that so the guy we're ordering it through (a client at the clinic who frequently orders from them, free shipping, yay) said it probably wouldn't arrive until june/july which is good, its my sisters birthday present and her birthday id July 18th. (however after just talking to my mom I found out its acctually going to be in next week...well...crap XD)
So the one we'd had before (a baby) was kept in a five gallon with peat moss substrate, two hides, a waterbowl big enough to soak in. and a heat emitter on one side. the temps were a gradient from 75-80F on the cool side to 90F on the hot side. He also had a propped up stick to climb on.
We don't quite know how large this one is going to be so we may end up using a 10g or a 20L, but I've got to make sure we get things right. (Even though we, and everyone we've talked to believed the set up we'd had was decent)
For an adult corn snake is a 20L sufficient? If not what would be a better choice? I think I've heard 40 breeders are good?
Was there anything about the set up we'd had in the first place wrong? What could we do to make it better?
This is also a question thats going to be relevant to our hognose as well since we're going to redo his 20L tank, what substrate is best? I think we want to go more for natural so we don't want to do newspaper or paper towels. We have a ton of peat moss, but would something else be better? Like aspen?
I don't know if any of you recall my thread from a few months back where I was trying to figure out what was wrong with my sisters blizzard corn snake, and in the end we lost the snake. We're pretty sure we had the set up basically right, but we've got another one coming our way. We've already placed the order, but its going to be awhile 'till it gets here. We're getting it from Glades herp and he won't send it out until it's shed 6 times and eaten or something like that so the guy we're ordering it through (a client at the clinic who frequently orders from them, free shipping, yay) said it probably wouldn't arrive until june/july which is good, its my sisters birthday present and her birthday id July 18th. (however after just talking to my mom I found out its acctually going to be in next week...well...crap XD)
So the one we'd had before (a baby) was kept in a five gallon with peat moss substrate, two hides, a waterbowl big enough to soak in. and a heat emitter on one side. the temps were a gradient from 75-80F on the cool side to 90F on the hot side. He also had a propped up stick to climb on.
We don't quite know how large this one is going to be so we may end up using a 10g or a 20L, but I've got to make sure we get things right. (Even though we, and everyone we've talked to believed the set up we'd had was decent)
For an adult corn snake is a 20L sufficient? If not what would be a better choice? I think I've heard 40 breeders are good?
Was there anything about the set up we'd had in the first place wrong? What could we do to make it better?
This is also a question thats going to be relevant to our hognose as well since we're going to redo his 20L tank, what substrate is best? I think we want to go more for natural so we don't want to do newspaper or paper towels. We have a ton of peat moss, but would something else be better? Like aspen?