Hey Captainjack,



the care for a milk snake is very similar to your corn snake so there is not too much to learn. A warm end of the enclosure in the low 80s with a cool end at room temp should be fine. Milk snakes are secretive and need several hide boxes to choose from and generally they like tight hides. I use aspen as a substrate but newspaper would work too.



The largest milks you can get would be the black milk or the andean milk. Both regularly attain 5-6 feet with some getting larger. Other tropical milks like the honduran can get large too but generally are in the 4-5 foot range. North American milks are smaller and depending on ssp, will attain anywhere from 2feet to 3 1/2 feet in general.



The reason you can't tell the difference between a nelsons and a sinaloan is that they have been mixed so much in the hobby. The pure forms are very hard to come by but if you saw the pure forms, you would see the difference. if you do a forum search on this you should get some hits, this topic is discussed frequently.



One line of sinaloans that is in the hobby and is pure sinaloae is the Cosala Mexico locality sinaloans. Depending on the line, these will get to 4feet and are quite impressive. Here is a picture of one of the Cosala animals I have with one pic in hand so you can see the size of an adult female.











I hope this helps,

Dave


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