Wild Caught, Miami Phase perhaps?

Last night at work I (I do on call work) I was walking around our building and noticed a snake on the sidewalk. After making sure it wasn't something venomous (Copperheads in WV) I caught it and I believe it's a Miami Phase Corn. It's likely just hatched as tiny as it is. For now I've put the guy in a 10 Gal with 1 hide (I'll get another ASAP) and a heat pad hooked to the same rheostat as my existing Corn set up. With this guy so tiny what can he eat? While I know I'll need to wait a while before attempting he had ate something previously as he/she has already pooped..lol. But here are some pics at this beautiful wild caught!

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...n/100_0703.jpg

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Around the reptile show here in PA my friends and I found about 40 corns. Seems those people just couldnt hang on to the little guys.

Yeah, Corns are pretty popular, mainly because size, easy husbandry, and colors.

No matter how popular they are people really need to do a better job of hanging on to them, poor guys would have frozen when the winter came.

It may very well be a WV native..If you'll check out wikipedia for corn snakes you'll notice their range is quite broad..As far a food, It should be able to gulp down a pinky without problem...:snake:

Another forum suggested Eastern Milk snake which I do believe may be more accurate and they are native to this area. Either way, a beauty, IMHO. :)

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

No matter how popular they are people really need to do a better job of hanging on to them, poor guys would have frozen when the winter came.

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Corn snakes can be found native all across the US.

You can find them in southern IL as well... and it can get preeetty cold over here.

That's just a normal corn if it's not an eastern milk. Healthy looking little bugger though.
I don't know enough about those milks, but someone else on here might.

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

Corn snakes can be found native all across the US.

You can find them in southern IL as well... and it can get preeetty cold over here.

That's just a normal corn if it's not an eastern milk. Healthy looking little bugger though.
I don't know enough about those milks, but someone else on here might.

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We based it off them being from the show because they were all kinds of crazy colors that you see being sold at shows, plus it was all within like 5 miles from the show.

Its a corn snake and not a eastern milk..If you'll get a better shot of the underside/bottom of the tail we'll tell ya what sex it is..

I'm pretty sure it is an E. Milk. It has the Y on the head which from what I can tell charactorize that species. I also believe that it is a female as after the cloaca the tail tapers evenly, where on a male I believe the first few scales after are a bit wider then narrow down.

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

Corn snakes can be found native all across the US.

You can find them in southern IL as well... and it can get preeetty cold over here.

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Actually cornsnakes are found in the south eastern US - GA, AL, FL, SC, up to NJ even. However, they aren't all across the US. Rat snakes can be found across, but not corns specifically.

And I don't think that's a corn in the OP. It does look more like a kingsnake of some sort.

I'm no expert, but it looks like a corn snake to me - and very cute! :) However, after googling eastern milk snake, I definitely see the resemblance: http://www.mcwetboy.com/articles/images/2snakes1.jpg

As for being a Miami Phase? It does have the gray background color, but the saddles look too dark. I have a young Miami phase, and she is much more orange/red...

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DSCN1573.jpg

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DSCN1575.jpg

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DSCN1556.jpg

Its a corn or I'm bugs bunny...:rofl:

Sorry if I'm not supposed to post other sites, but you should show that picture on cornsnakes.com... I post on there regularly, and they have plenty of "experts" who could identify it for ya. ;)

Definitely a Miami Corn. I have a pair about the same size as that one! Great find too!

A close up picture of the head will clear this matter quickly. I'm leaning towards an E Milk.

Jim Smith

Looking at the pics more closely, I agree with Jim. Definitely not a corn - looks like eastern milk snake - or some other snake.

Definately and Eastern Milk. You can tell by the head. Corns have a very distinctive head while milk's heads kind of just follow with the rest of the body and aren't as distinctive. Still pretty though. Is it eating for you? Easterns have a rep of being picky feeders, espeially wild caught ones.

It's an Eastern Milk.
Nobody argues after they type it in google!

There are a lot of snake's that resemble Corn's as juveniles... Eastern milks, Prairie kings,Gophers & Bulls and Most Ratsnake babies...It's just a common look In the good Ol' USA

Yes lets have more pictures of the animal so we can put this to rest and I can go back to eating meat..:rofl:

Good looking corn! I think vmsherp.com has some good photos of babies if you want to get a real idea of what it may be.

Oh and screw GA and their laws. I want a corn SOOOOOO BAD.