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[felix93]

Please bear with me. I am pretty new keeping snakes. Got myself a couple of baby corns. One is almost 4 months old and the other one is just about 2 weeks younger. They are from different breeder etc.

My older one looks he has grown a lot since I got him and he looks chunkier compared with the slightly younger one, although he is longer. He shedded once since I got him and I think he's about to shed again in the next few days. The younger one has not shedded under my care yet but then I only just got him 11 days ago.

I feed both of them at the same time in their own tank, every 4 - 5 days (that is what I was told to do). I have increased to feed 2 pinkies to my bigger one while the younger one has only 1 pinkie. When I finish feeding them, the young one seems very contented and just goes back to his hide, while the older one seems wanting to have more. I know he would have more pinkies if I offer him more (tried to give him 3 pinkies once).

So how do I know how much is too much and the corn is overweight? Please advise, thanks.

[Lynne]

give him three pinkies a few times then move him onto fuzzies. its hard to tell correctly without seeing though, have you any pictures of the two off the, cause depending on her size the younger one could maybe be on fuzzies too. picture would be great. at this age my bigger ones were certainly onto fuzzies. (small at first)
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[JohnC]

Baby corns do not go in for obesity, the food they eat goes into growth, growth in all directions. So you do not have to worry about yours being overweight.
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Carpets, royals, rainbow boas, corns, milks, ackies and leos.

[felix93]

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[Lynne]

they do look a bit small. i would leave them om the pinkies for a few weeks more. but there is not much nutrition in pinkies, so the sooner they move up to fuzzies the better. but they will be fine on pinkies for a bit longer. hard to tell as i only have the pinky to judge them by. i would think though if the bigger one was taking two pinkies, then he could take a small fuzzy. if he will take three give him three, and i would give the smaller one two. pinkies i mean.
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[Neffy]

I moved my corn upto small fuzzies once she had taken 2 pinkies for about 6 weeks.
When i went to my local rep shop and asked for small fuzzies they let me pick em out myself. It was then i realized that the small fuzzies were actually the same size as the 2 pinkies i was feeding her if not slightly smaller.
If you have a local rep shop near you ask them can you have a look at some small fuzzies and compare their size to what your feeding now. It may be more beneficial for your snake if you can feed it 1 fuzzy rather than multiple pinkies.

[Lynne]

its actually better for them to have a few small food items at a time rather than one big one. but your right about the fuzzy sizes. and my pinkies are huge.{the mice ones, not actually mine]. nit that am saying your wrong about the feeding. what i did when my big ones were small was, once they had taken 3 pinkies for a couple of weeks i then got them fuzzies. everyone moves them up differantly.i think the question was how does he tell if they are fat!!! well baby corns wont get fat so dontworry. larger adult corns will develop 'white' around the scales.
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[Neffy]

[Lynne]

i mean when they are about to move up a size. but hey...we all have our little quirks, but i was advised this by a corn breeder, and its advice i have always followed.
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