Good snake for a young girl?

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I would have to say the corn as well. Being diurnal (I swear I read that they mostly are diurnal... ) mine was often seen basking and cruising his cage, hanging out in his plants. Great animal to handle, very curious about their surroundings and alert.

Other than a corn, I'd have to say a black Mexican king snake, or Honduran milk snakes are at the top of my list. But I really do love the corns and rats.

If you want a sort of exotic rat snakes species, check out the Blue or Vietnamese Beauties.

Okay, I checked my son's book Snakes of the SouthEast by Gibbons and Dorcas and it says there that cornsnakes are diurnal right after getting out of brumation in Spring and then become nocturnal in the summer.

So, we're both right.