Look at the picture of the milksnake. See how thick and robust the body is.
The cornsnake is much more slender.

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So you still are of the opinion that I have a cornsnake here? I so want it to be so I can keep it but want to do the right thing by the snake.

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0.1.0 Bearded Dragon(Crush)
1.4.0 Anoles(Casanova,Bambi,Fiona,Belle,Rain )
0.0.1 Long Tail Grass Lizard(Dragon)
0.0.1 Golden Gecko(Kim-Ly)
0.1.0 Brown Basilisk(?)
0.0.1 Basilisk Plumifron(Messiah)
1.1.0 Hypomelanistic Corn Snake


Bunny: Honey
Chihuahua/JRT mix: Pippin
Shepard/Lab mix: Ruby
Cockatiel: Brennan
Budgie: Tiny
Hooded Rat: Jimmie
Hamster: Mischief
Chinchillas: Mork and Will

I put a million bucks on its a corn snake... Mine looks JUST like that one(pic #1), coloring and all.

I'm jealous, some lady in Maine had a 8ft retic show up in her washer, and now you have a corn snake crawl in through your heater vent... Jealous, jealous, jealous

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What a beauty! And he's sweet tempered? I would keep him for sure. Looks like an anerythristic corn in that photo, maybe even a ghost. So pretty

Thanks all. I FEEL very lucky he/she showed up at my house my neighbor said lucky he/she chose us as she would have hit him/her with a shovel...otherwise she is a nice person. :-(
So decision made! I will keep him/her!
Know what? Just 2 months ago I was scared to death of snakes. One good thing that came out of working in a pet store got over that fast. Gee hope a Ball Python shows up next hehe

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0.1.0 Bearded Dragon(Crush)
1.4.0 Anoles(Casanova,Bambi,Fiona,Belle,Rain )
0.0.1 Long Tail Grass Lizard(Dragon)
0.0.1 Golden Gecko(Kim-Ly)
0.1.0 Brown Basilisk(?)
0.0.1 Basilisk Plumifron(Messiah)
1.1.0 Hypomelanistic Corn Snake


Bunny: Honey
Chihuahua/JRT mix: Pippin
Shepard/Lab mix: Ruby
Cockatiel: Brennan
Budgie: Tiny
Hooded Rat: Jimmie
Hamster: Mischief
Chinchillas: Mork and Will

I'm going to have to go against everybody here and say its an eastern milk snake. Looking at the face of the snake really is how to tell the difference between the two: as I've noticed eastern milks have red eyes with a black pupil but with your picture its hard to see that but they also have a band/stripe on their that comes from their cheek over their eyes and the front of the face which you can clearly see on your snake. (Although some corn have that too like mine). The one last thing is the shape of the head is different, its hard to explain but if you just compared them to next to each other you would notice right away.
Here a picture of a eastern milk snake's face (top) compared to a corn snake's (bottom)

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0.2.1 Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 Corn Snake
0.3.0 Green Frogs
0.0.1 Eastern Garter Snake
0.0.1 Green Tree Frog
1.0.0 White's Tree Frog

I'd also like to add do not keep it with other snakes as easterns are extremely canibalistic and probably in your basement feeding on the other snakes down there as well as the mice.

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0.2.1 Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 Corn Snake
0.3.0 Green Frogs
0.0.1 Eastern Garter Snake
0.0.1 Green Tree Frog
1.0.0 White's Tree Frog

Hmm, Brewster could be right. This photo of an Eastern milksnake looks a lot like the one in your picture: I'm focusing on the body markings.
http://michaelcravens.com/sitebuilde...stern-milk.jpg
You could let him go in your basement and hope he sticks around. You could set up a low tray with aspen shavings, a hide box, heating pad and water dish and let him go out and hunt for the mice himself. Although if you think he might go over to your neighbor's house to be killed with a shovel, he might have a longer life in captivity. Tough decision... if it's not illegal to keep him, you could consider it.

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Can you give us a picture of the top of the snake's head,... as well as its belly?

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Can you get a few more up close photos of its head?

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