Pueblan Milk Snake vs Corn Snake
I'm trying to decide whether to get a pueblan milk snake or a corn snake, but I can't find very much info on the pueblan milk snake's personality. How are p. milk snakes compared to corn snakes, and which one would make the better pet?
Answers:Pueblan milk snakes are gorgeous animals, and usually available at reasonable prices. However, they have some down sides as pets:
They are very high-strung, especially when young. They thrash around, musk, and defecate when handled. Their speed and agility are amazing. I would have sworn that snakes couldn't jump, until I saw my baby milk snake shoot up out of a cage that was taller than he was long -- I caught him out of the air. They move like little scaly rockets. They are nocturnal burrowers, so you won't see your snake very often. He'll be under the substrate, in his hide box, or just about anywhere else he can stay hidden. Without a good hiding place, stress can kill them. Also, as with all of the milk and king snakes, they are escape artists.
If you want a really beautiful animal that you interact with on its own terms -- enjoying it when it comes out of hiding for a while, and in general treating it more or less like a tropical fish -- a Pueblan milk snake is great. They're easy to keep and they stay a convenient size. However, they're not really a "pet" snake in the sense that a corn snake can be.
Corn snakes are sort of the opposite of milk snakes in terms of habits. Where milks are burrowers, corns are climbers. Where milks are shy, corns can be actually gregarious. Mine knows when I'm feeding the snakes and comes out of her hollow log to watch -- and wait for her own dinner, of course. A milk snake's reaction to being handled is panic: "Something grabbed me! It's daytime! I'm not hidden! I'm up in the air!" A corn snake, on the other hand, is accustomed to daytime, being less hidden, and climbing, so it only has to get over the "something grabbed me!" reaction. I think mine considers me to be sort of a heated, moving tree branch, somewhere down inside her wee little mind.
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