your welcome,.....

Well, when I looked at the pics again though, and it really could be a snowcorn(amel x anery) that doesn't have any real head chevron pattern, the little bit of yellow on the sides is very typical for snowcorns as well. But light amel Black rats and certain crosses can display this too, especially if it is a corn x rat cross..LOL! If you can look at the belly to see if there is any vague, clear-ish checkering
on the belly, that would help ID as to being a snowcorn, and if it has none it would be an amel ratsnake. You can get a shed and carefully count the scales too from these scale counts I gave here too. It's tough to make out the head shape with it all agitaded and flaired out like that.

Also, as Greg mentioned, it could have something wrong going on with it that is making it so irritable, or it could have been badly teased from whoever previously owned it also.

Another thing that can make snakes VERY cranky are temps that are too high. It needs one far side ONLY of it's enclosure to be in the mid to upper 80's for proper digestion, and cooler ambient temps of about whatever is comfortable to you,..say low-mid 70's. As long as it can seek a thermogradient on one FAR END of the higher temps, and the other side is cooler, all is good providing it can hide to feel secure.
Black ratsnake scale counts:

Ventrals: 222-246

Subcaudals: 63-90

Dorsal scale rows at mid-body: 25-27

Cornsnake scale counts:

ventrals: 203-245

subcaudals: 47-84

dorsal scale rows at mid-body: 23-29

anyway, if you can get scale counts from a shed, and see if any are too far out of key for their species, as well as look at the belly to see if it has any clearish looking checkering or not, this will be a very good indicator as to what it is for certain.


cheers, ~Doug
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