Creamsicle Corn Snake

[Loren]

Corns generally make excellent pets, and have very basic care needs.
I have 3 of them. 2 amelanistic fm's and an anery male.
They will only bite if I let them confuse me for food because they have such great appetites(best feeders I have). So I just make sure they get a good look at my hand before I pick them up. Then they are great.

[beaniesmommy]

Ok I didn't mean to offend any other SAHM's... I am tattooed and I party once a month at a poker party and I love rock music... I am not too boring either. Sometimes after making lunches and watching Disney movies for weeks on end you start to feel like you loose yourself a bit... That is what I meant...

But here are some pictures of the "Candy Cane" Cornsnake... That is what the pet store called it I will do some more research and see what I can find. It is so happy in it's new home. It sat in the water and took a bath right away. It has eaten two furries (I think that is what they are called) and two pinkies that my garter wanted nothing to deal with.

Happy snake owner here

P.s. Does a snake bit hurt really bad? I am just worried about my daughter. She is really gentle and I am ALWAYS helping her hold the snakes. Just wondering

[Loren]

Thats very pretty. It looks alot like one of my amelanistics. Mine are two different varieties- I dont know the actual morph name, just that they have red eyes, and basically just the same colors as yours- so I just call them amelansitic.
As for snake bites- corns and snakes like that can draw a small amount of blood, but I have never found it too much to worry about. It doesnt really hurt because they have sharp teeth, so its a fairly clean cut. I have only been bit by any snake a few times, and the only one that was actually painful was my racer, because he just kept chewing and chewing and chewing. I was doing a show at the time too.

Main thing is just to make sure and wash the wound good, and make sure your reaction is very calm and not worried, so your child doesnt get more freaked out than she already will be.
Bites from a cornsnake are rare and usually only happen when they mistake you for food, which only happens on the initial pick up. I have never had one try to bite once they are out of the cage, as long as you are gentle.
Perhaps you should get it out for her, then let her hold it. Any younger child should be supervised with any snake anyways- if for nothing else, to make sure they dont lose it. Then you can make sure the snake seems calm.
Only other thing to watch is when they are ready to shed- their eyes cloud over, and they can get "cranky" since they cant see well.

[Loren]

Well, I went out and snapped a quick pic of my cornsakes since we were on the subject. They dont all live together- this was just for the pic. The anery is the male- almost 4 feet long, the other 2 are females, maybe a little under 3 feet.
I tried to get one of those cute group shots where they all are looking at the camera- not a chance, that could have taken all day!

[Stefan-A]

Hold on, the creamsicle is a hybrid between a corn and an Emory's ratsnake, isn't it?

[Zephyr]

Hold on, the creamsicle is a hybrid between a corn and an Emory's ratsnake, isn't it?

I thought it was an intergrade between the corn snake and the great plain's rat snake.

[Stefan-A]

It was, when they still belonged to the same species. Now they're two distinct species of the same genus.

[Zephyr]

I have a recently published book still saying they're the same species, copyright 2007... When was the change and why wasn't I informed? :P

[Stefan-A]

I think it was changed some time between 2004 and 2006. They chopped up Elaphe, since all the rat snakes of the world didn't belong to the same genus. I've heard a rumor that there are plans to get rid of Pantherophis as well and move most of the North American rat snakes to Pituophis.

http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/687.pdf

we suggest that all species in the clade formed by the MRCA
of Pantherophis guttatus to Pituophis melanoleucus (node
C2, Fig. 4) be designated as Pituophis.

edit: it was in 2005.

edit 2: better not repeat rumors. Deleted it.

edit 3: what the hell, I'll put it back.

[Zephyr]

I think it was changed some time between 2004 and 2006. They chopped up Elaphe, since all the rat snakes of the world didn't belong to the same genus. I've heard a rumor that there are plans to get rid of Pantherophis as well and move most of the North American rat snakes to Pituophis.

edit: it was in 2005.

Well if you average 2004 and 2006... :P
Next thing you know they'll find some little gene and push them all back together again. XD