Why corn snakes?

[Arachnaeoccult]

Ever since I traded a baby corn snake for a full grown adult rosehair years ago these colubrids have been a staple of the snake hobby and I never understood why. If people wanted to breed any other snake they could do it, there are plenty of colubrids (coming to be my favorite class of snake lately), many really colorful and bright and having plenty of personality, so why is the typical common corn snake SO common?


Now don't get me wrong, I rather like the personality of my baby corn snake and enjoy watching him grow just in the past couple of weeks but theres gotta be more than just Ball Pythons and corn snakes at these shops!

I did some (obsessive) research to find a local milksnake,preferably a white-red-black milk snake and a local pet store manager told me her daughter wanted to give away her 5 foot red-black-white milk snake for $100, which to me is an unbeatable price (and a lucky find) for a strong adult specimen. I'll be picking him up monday.

If theres so many corn snakes and ball pythons where are they all going? I hope that at least more than half get to go to a good home???