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[Baz]

Hi,

I just wanted to introduce myself. One week ago I got my first snake, a caramel corn snake. His name is Carmello.

I came upon this site via Lozzer's site, which I was impressed with.

Being new to corn snakes I will probably have some nervous health questions, which will just turn out to be nothing serious or even normal.

I apologize in advance for those.

Once I have a good picture of Carmello I will add it to my profile.

Have a good one!

Bas ;D

[John Pilling]

Welcome to the frum and i hope you enjoy it here.

Don't be affraid to ask questions no matter how small or trivia, when your starting out theirs only 1 way to learn, by asking.

Can't wait to see a pic off your little one and any problems, someone is nearley always online.

[Dave]

Hey Baz
welcome to the forum, always here to help in anyway we can

[lozzer]

Yes welcome ;)hope my care sheet helped!
Yer and don't be afraid to ask us any questions.
And we will be glad to answer them.
We are all very friendly and knowleadgable(hope i spelt that right lol)about these beautiful and docile reptiles.

[lee]

i haven't been here too long but welcome to the site
looking forward to seeing your corn pics
lee

[Christina]

hi! me chrissy, i ask loads of dumb questions! but every one is really helpfull and all are really cool ppls!

[ssSSam]

Hi im Sam. i own a royal python and a amel corn:)

[Dave]

boy this could get confusing lol ;D only kidding welcome sssam

[ssSSam]

its sam and dave i had to get a new account as i forgot my p word lol so were familiar lol

[Dave]

oh dear why do i always do the stupid things!!! ;D

[Vicki]

Hi Baz, welcome to the forum ;D

[Baz]

Wow,

what a welcome! I've been having a lot of fun reading up on all the old threads and looking at the pictures.

Just a little about myself: I am Dutch, studied in Salford (I saw a lot of you live up North) and then worked a while in the UK. Moved back to Holland for a few years and then moved to Denver (American wife).

I'd never seen snakes in pet stores before and here in the USA they are readily available.

I first wanted to get a rough green snake to avoid having to deal with mice, but then you have to deal with escaping crickets and looking after them. I figured frozen mice don't escape too often.

That opened up more snake choices. I read that corns are pretty and they are a good "beginner" snake. I had also set up my vivarium already for the semi-arboreal green snake, so although I love the Cali king snake and they also had some Mexican Milks, I picked the corn they had at the reptile specialist store, which happens to be the Caramel corn. I named him Carmello, because of the caramel and because the star basketball player of the Denver Nuggets is a young kid called Carmello Anthony.

I avoided the "generic" pet store (read Petco), because I have little faith in their care for the reptiles and fish and their knowledge of the animal's background.

[John Pilling]

Always best to avoid petco, they have a very bad reputation on www.cornsnakes.com Their mice are good though, well from what i have heard.

Salford, not far from me, just a couple of miles from manchester and probabley about a hour away by car.

[Baz]

I agree. After reading one book on snake keeping I was chatting to two guys from Petco and realized they were full of it. Just tell you anything for the sale. Apparently they are cheap for crickets, so I guess mice too.

In Denver I went to Scales n Tails. I can recommend them to anyone in the Denver area. Alternatively there is a reptile shelter in Denver too.

Yep, lived in Salford for 5 years. Loved Manchester, but no jobs in the area after graduation, so had to move daaaahn Soufff. Salford was a little rough if you're not local, but a few nice pubs and great kebab...

[John Pilling]

It got a good Uni (apparentley? I've never been to any ) And yeah the donner Kababs are probbabley the best in the countrey , well from what i've sampled do far anyway .

[Baz]

I don't know if it's a good uni . I lived for a little while outside Oxford, if you see those college buildings you know it must be good. That's also a fun town by the way, lots of young people, lots of nightlife.

Salford is a small uni, so you easily make a lot of friends. You can pub crawl your way into Manchester and time it perfectly to end up in a club, before finishing off with a nice curry in Rusholme . Ahhhh memories. I'll have to go back some day.