PETS R E N COR Hi, my name’s Colin My name is Colin and I am a corn snake. I live in my glass tank and I am a very good pet as I like being handled by my owner and I am very easy to keep. I am originally from Florida in the USA and I used to live in a woodland and would catch mice, young rats, birds and bats and other small creatures for my dinner. I now live with my family and they feed me baby mice, baby rats and chicks. As we are constrictor snakes we like to bite our prey and then wrap our bodies around it to suffocate it before eating it but my owner gives me frozen mice, which I love. I eat 2 mice every week. We also like to have a large water bowl to drink from and this should be filled with bottled water rather than water from the tap. We like to have fresh water every day. We also like to hide and my owner has given me some terracotta pots and plastic pots with holes in for me to hide in. Rebecca the vet says I do not need any UV light in my tank as I “Corn snakes can lay love natural light which shines on me from 10-30 eggs in the window. I have a heat mat that is on one go!” one side of my tank and I like to move from the heat to the cold so that I can maintain a regular body temperature. We can live for up to 25 years if we get lots of tender, loving care from our owners.
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