I apologize if you all think I asked my question just to stir things up.

I'm just trying to learn some history about snake 'morphs'. I've been studying up on corn snakes, then something piqued my interest about the white-sided gene. I occurred to me that there was no way that type of coloration would pop up in several different species. Plus I read something recently about leucism (sp?) being bred in to pits from rat snakes. So... I thought, why not ask the experts? So thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

I own a gorgeous pair of black pines and a pair of bulls (red and albino). They are awesome, especially the pines and my red bull female. My red female is possibly the most alert and intelligent seeming snake I've certainly ever known. She sees everything I do and seems to understand it, too. She watches me feed the hatchlings and I can just see her thinking, "Hey, you know I'm right here, and I'm hungry, too! Yoo, hoo!" Then she goes and hides her head and pouts. Seems like it anyway. Only time I've ever been able to fill her belly up is recently I had a left over exlarge rat. It took her a while, but she ate it and left me alone for several days. LOL!

Thanks for humoring me .. Amy C.

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