
08-09-2011, 02:23 PM
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Re: New corn shake babies
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Originally Posted by Ozcat
Congratulations on your new snakes! I used to keep corn snakes when I lived in the UK. I really liked my corns, one was a normal and the other was anerythristic. They were very tame and docile. The more you handle them, the better they get. I have only ever heard of accidental cannibalism if they both try to eat the same food item, say a mouse, with one snake engulfing the head end and the other the tail end. One snake will swallow the whole mouse and keep going until it swallows the other snake too!  I think this is very rare mind you. This problem can be overcome by feeding the snakes separately which is what I used to do.
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all snakes are capable of being cannibalistic as all snakes are opportunists , i have heard of corns eating other corns and some not even in the instances you have mentioned , some species are more prone to eat other snakes , such as milk snakes and kingsnakes for instance , general rule of the thumb for me , is to house each of my snakes seperately i`m not prepared to take chances with any of them 
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