Corn Snakes: The Comprehensive Owner's Guide (Herpetocultural Library, The) [Paperback]

Kathy Love (Author), Bill Love (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1, 2006 | Series: Herpetocultural Library, The

Two of the world's foremost breeders of corn snakes joined to write the ultimate corn snake book covering every aspect of husbandry, breeding and medicine. The authors also present an up-to-date discussion of all the current morphs. As could be expected from renowned photographer Bill Love, this groundbreaking book is illustrated by numerous color photographs showing why corn snakes are the most beautiful and best pet snakes in the world.

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Two of the world's foremost breeders of corn snakes joined to write the ultimate corn snake book covering every aspect of husbandry, breeding and medicine. The authors also present an up-to-date discussion of all the current morphs. As could be expected from renowned photographer Bill Love, this groundbreaking book is illustrated by numerous color photographs showing why corn snakes are the most beautiful and best pet snakes in the world. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Advanced Vivarium Systems (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882770706
• ISBN-13: 978-1882770700
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Corn Snake Manual, March 24, 2000

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VICTOR W. WADDEL (SF Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corn Snake Manual (Paperback)

This one of the best books on corn snakes I have read. It covers anything anyone interested would need from history to selection to breeding. The color pictures are great.

This book is a must for anyone interested in keeping, breeding or just learning about Corn Snakes.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reference for corn snake keepers, August 29, 2001

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Jonathan Crowe (Shawville, QC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corn Snake Manual (Paperback)

This is the best and most comprehensive care guide for corn snakes on the shelves, from a couple who breed them by the thousand each year. Each section covers its subject thoroughly and with authority: a lengthy treatise on brumation; a thoughtful couple of pages on stress; even a serious investigation of commercial snake sausages (ick!) under feeding. That thoroughness also carries over to the lavishly illustrated section covering color and pattern morphs: we not only get a picture and a brief description, but also the history of how that given morph came about (and by whom). So we discover, for example, that a pewter corn is a combination of bloodred and charcoal (anerythristic B), that butter is an amelanistic caramel, that a milk snake phase is a selectively bred Miami phase, and so on. With so much useful and interesting information in this book, every hobbyist with corn snakes simply has to have it.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be titled The Corn Snake Bible, December 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Corn Snake Manual (Paperback)

The best of books written by the professionals for anybody. Any experienced keeper will value this, but even the newcomer should get this book. With every possible piece of info. you could know about a cornsnake, there isn't a topic that isn't covered. If you have a cornsake, then buy this book.