Setting Up a Corn Snake Cage

I’m Holly Friedland, program director of the Midatlantic Reptile show. This is how to care for a
corn snake. And in this section, we’ll be talking about how to setup the enclosure. First, you start
by your sub straight or what’s on the bottom of the tank. You can use a variety of things. There
are commercial beddings available or you can just use newspaper. We’re going to use aspen
bedding. You can get this at your local pet store. And you put the aspen bedding in just enough
so that the snake can feel comfortable and climb around in it. And you’ll wanna put a heating
pad which goes underneath of the tank and that will keep your animal warm in its hide area. The
other that you’ll need is some kind of a hide box. We’re gonna use a piece of cork bark. There
are also logs and even plastic containers. You can even use a cardboard box if that’s what you
wanna do. This, this is a much more natural setting. Then you’ll also wanna have a water bowl
and you want the water bowl away from the heating pad so it doesn’t evaporate all the water.
Then you’re gonna have a securely fitting lid because snakes are notorious escape artists. And
these are cage clips. And these cage clips fit on the side and they keep the snake secure inside of
the cage. So that’s setting up the basic enclosure. In the next clip, we’ll talk about the lighting
and the temperature.


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