ENCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS

It is easy and pretty affordable to provide enclosures for corn snakes. Babies (8 to 10 inches) to juveniles (10"-20") can be housed in Kritter Keepers or in 5½g aquariums (16"x8"x10"). When herpetoculturists start amassing large amounts of corn snakes they obtain racks and keep their small corns in shoe-sized plastic containers. I would always house them in their own cage; cannibalism, though rare, does happen at times. It is also dangerous to feed multiple snakes in the same cage.

Adults are just as easy to house. The specimens from 20" to 36" inches, or even the rare 4 feet some will get can be housed in 10g aquariums (20"x10"x12"), individually of course. The commercial keepers tend to use racks with adults as well, just using larger sweaterboxes.

These are just some basic guidelines on how to enclose your corn snake. You can put multiple snakes in a larger tank as long as they are the same sex due to the fact they will mate. For Example I have two adult male corn snakes in a 55 gallon tank and I have 2 medium sized females in a 10 gallon tank. Nothing has ever happened between them so it is safe to say that you can house them together.