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08-23-12, 03:57 PM
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Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Difference in keeping size etc
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08-23-12, 04:10 PM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Corn snakes usually get just a wee bit bigger, not always, as I have a Pueblan Milk snake that's close to 4 feet long.
Corn snakes are actually a breed of rat snake, but tend to be a lot mellower than milks or rats.
Corn snakes are uber common, milks a little less so.
One thing most milks have in common is they are flighty, and likely to musk you when handled. A corn usually won't do that, I stress usually, since any snake can get spooked and fling nasty smells at us.
Care is about the same, they all come in pretty colours... or lack of colours.
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08-23-12, 04:15 PM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
big milk...
little milk...
corn snake...
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08-23-12, 05:23 PM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
As far as care.....all colubrids can be kept similar if they are provided a thermal and humidity gradient.
The Central American Milks (hondurensis, polyzona, abnorma, andesiana, stuarti, oligozona, micropholis & gaigeae) grow as long or longer than guttata.
But since the Hobby Hondo craze of recent past and current it is difficult to find pure strains of each in the hobby today.
Milk Snakes from Mexico are typically larger adults than the Milks in the United States.
And...Just as corns are ratsnakes, milks are kingsnakes (ophiophagus).
Last edited by Jlassiter; 08-23-12 at 05:29 PM..
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08-23-12, 05:25 PM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Here's a big milk....Black Milk. They hatch out as tricolors and turn black with age.
This is not me in the photo btw.
Here's another my buddy Shannon Brown has:
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08-23-12, 05:28 PM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Hondurans get rather large too...
Again...this is not me....lol
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08-23-12, 05:32 PM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
That is one big honduran!!!
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08-23-12, 08:21 PM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Holy crap! I have a publan milksnake will he get that big? I heard 3 to 4 ft was norm those are big
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08-23-12, 09:41 PM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Pueblans very seldom get over 4 feet.
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08-24-12, 01:08 AM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Holy wow those are some huge animals! I know it's not common, but I never realized exactly how large they have the capability of getting!
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08-24-12, 01:35 AM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
It is common for pure Hondurans and pure Black Milks to get that big........
It isn't common for a Nelson's, Pueblan, Sinaloan or Mexican Milk to get over 4 feet.
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08-24-12, 01:48 AM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Ahhh. . I don't know much about milks. It was my understanding that it wasn't common for them to get over 4'...I guess that was just an average throughout the milks....I learn something new everyday 
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08-24-12, 04:08 AM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
There are many subspecies of milksnakes (triangulum).
Each have there own size range......
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08-24-12, 08:28 AM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jlassiter
There are many subspecies of milksnakes (triangulum).
Each have there own size range......
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Do you happen to no about Mexican black kings? Like size wise.
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08-24-12, 08:44 AM
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Re: Milk snake vs corn snake what's the difference
I had a MBK that was at least 4 ft.
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