What snake between these two do you guys recommend?

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Originally Posted by Slippery Snek

Hello everyone! So I am setting up a 40 breeder and after research I have decided to get a corn or king snake. I am learning toward a king snake but what is your advice? Are both these snakes good beginner reptiles?

Nothing wrong with either of them, although "corn snakes" are a species and "king snakes" are an entire genus. You didn't specify which species of king snake you're interested in, although most of the commonly available ones are pretty similar in behavior.

It's really just preference. Personally, I like rat snakes (which corns are) more than king snakes, as far as their behavior. Rats tend to be semi-arboreal where kings are strictly terrestrial and even somewhat fossorial. What that means, in my experience, is that kings are much more likely to be burrowed under the substrate a large part of the time. I've always hated that with any snake. But, my main joy in keeping snakes is setting up natural enclosures and watching the snake's natural behaviors in them. If you're like most people and just want a pet that you can get out and handle, you probably won't care about that.