Do you own a snake?
 

because i have a corn snake.. and she is a complete numpty..

weve had her for a week.. shes just under a year old.

we bought her a bigger tank on Wednesday, but she spends most of her time sleeping between the backdrop thing, and the actual tank.. weve just fed her, and she tried to drag mousey back behind the background.. but it wont fit.. so she is currently trying to eat a mouse with just her head poking out.. and the rest of her body up against the glass of the back of the tank.

she sleeps a lot, and spends very little time actually crawling around her tank.

obviously i wasnt expecting her to be tame and like.. sleep on my shoulder and do tricks and stuff, but i thought she might be a bit more... visible!

i could look on a snake forum.. but yeah.

is this normal snake behaviour?

I don't have one, but I wish I did =[

yep im afraid to say its pretty normal!!!

i was amazed to see one of my snakes out today, i honestly havent seen him in about 4 days.

do you have hides in the viv? some snakes will want to eat in private. and they also like to curl up somewhere out the way which is probably why your snake is hiding at the back like that.

my brother has one, and from what i see when i venture in to his room it sleeps alot of the time and i cant normally see it, so it sounds normal to me lol
xxx

at the minute.. we dont have many hides.. we are having vines and rocks and stuff delivered tomorrow though.

shes come all the way out now to eat her mousey, and she is constricting it.. she looks like she had tied herself up in a knot!

what snakes do you have Raven?

Nope but I knew someone that did and I stayed at her house for a while and I didn't see it out once

im sorry but can i just say (after my visual)
yuck
poor wee mouse

like said though snakes usually like to take their food to a private place

you definitely need to get some hides - we have 2 or 3 in each of our vivs. one on the warm side where the heat mat is and one on the cold side. for the smallest snake i have i have 3 hides similar to these:
http://www.petreptilehouse.co.uk/prods/2.html
http://www.petreptilehouse.co.uk/prods/3.html
http://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/exo-terra-snake-cave.html

its interesting watching them eat! did she strike the mouse?

i have an okatee corn, a snow corn and a sunkissed corn :-)

she has a half a coconut thing on the warm side, some logs and a big rock thing on the cold side, and some loo rolls =p

she did strike it yeah... shes super fast.. and she looks like a different snake with her jaw dislocated.

We have an Amel corn, but shes stiped instead of blotchy. shes pretty.

well, as long as shes got something she can hide in then she should be fine :-) maybe shes just taken a liking to the back of the viv lol.

i like to watch them strike, they are so fast! my sunkissed corn doesnt strike though, we have to pretty much put her food into her hide for her else she wont eat!

amel corn are pretty!!

^ haha have you seen it yawn yet? When my Kingsnake yawns it is the most bizarre thing with the whole stretched jaw!!

Umm but yes, snakes don't do much. The most active mine gets is when she crawls around the light fixture...and falls off.
It might get more active when you get it out of the viv, they become more curious is "new" surroundings

lazy snake!!

how old are yours?

we think ours is about a year old.. shes two foot long ish. i completely forgot to ask the guy in the shop, but a reptile guy told us.

and Lou.. ours like to crawl along the tinyest ledge where the doors close.. she gets about half way across and falls off.. but she does it over and over again.

lol at the snakes falling, when i first got mr white he was always climbing up to a little ledge on the top of the viv and falling off.
im not sure how old my snakes are really...i think plissken is about a year or so. mr white is maybe 2 or 3 years? and i have no idea how old otis is because we found her. i dont even know what sex otis is but i always say her.

here are my snakes

awh... theyre super cute!

the snow corn is massive!!! i cant wait until she is that big.. im going to train her to eat all the spiders in the house.

im going to find pictures of ours.

yeah he is getting big!

lol never thought about spiders before :-p

it's tres normal.

the one we had used to spend the majority of her time in the rim between the lid and the opening bit.
and she hid to eat =]

incidentally, the snake we looked after was called Charlie :)

this is florence!!! =]

the last picture is where she likes to hide between the backing and the tank.

I don't but my dad had a couple of corn snake, a milk snake and a beautiful, black king snake which was so gorgeous.

I haven't lived with him for him and don't know how they are. I wasn't keen on them, despite going to meetings of local herpteological society however I could respect them.

I am never coming around your house, not with a snake. :-p