Thanks Brad!,.....

My friend Jim took that photo of one he had from that locale. I like the way that "greenish" individual looks too!

It just so happens that "greenish" rat is het for this hypo "moonshine" morph that he just recently discovered there back in June of 2006 from a solid white male he found before the sun came up one morning.

Here are the "kids" I just acquired from him.......

a visual homozygous morph male.......



and a normal het female.....Jim took both these pics to to send me of the exact one's I was getting. I haven't taken any pics of them myself yet, but I will soon. They both ate just after arriving too!, so they are doing just phenomenal here.



Apparently there seems to be a strong sexual dimorphism involved with this morph too, as all the male's are the lighter one's with pink eyes, and the slightly darker one's with dark pupils are females.

Sort of similar to the way hypomelanism acts in many ghost corns too. The WEIRDEST thing about these, is that his wild-caught male was solid white when younger, then gradually developed light lavender colored blotches and longitudinal striping.

Here are two dimorphic phenotype siblings.....



and here is the mature male with a normal het "greenish" ratsnake....






~Doug
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