Thanks Tom,

Yep the prairies here get a gun metal gray overcast to them and some lose their saddles completely. They are pretty variable here, some keep very distinct markings, but still have the overcast, and others lose them and some even take on two stripes running one on each side dorsal and lateral to the spine. Here are some pics...



This one is a dark specimen.....





This one has the stripes.....





Here is one I have in my collection. She is C/B from a gravid Todd county snake and seems to be holding her pattern very well. Although she is gettin the signature gun metal gray overcast on her last 1/3 of her body....





And here is one from last year that was found in Hart county. It has retained alot of its pattern as well.





So in all here they are pretty variable. I am myself from MO. Grew up there in SE MO. Near Poplar Bluff.



I know what you mean about the prairies, the first one I saw here I was trying to figure out what it was!!! The black rat snakes are the same here as well. Not what a Missourian is used to for sure!!!



Here is a KY black rat, I have had him from hatchling and he is getting huge!



Not at all the the black rats I was used to over there in MO!! LOL
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RATS

1.0 Corn snake "Warpath" (KY locale)

1.0 Black rat snake "Havok" (KY locale)

1.1 Black rat snakes "Reaper and Mystique" (MO locale)

1.0 Albino Black rat snake "Malakai" (Dwight Good stock)

1.0 Everglades rat snake "Deadpool" (Dwight Good stock)

0.1 Greenish rat snake "Rogue" (Dwight Good stock)

1.0 Yellow rat snake "Wolverine" (Dwight Good stock)

1.0 Grey rat snake "Punisher" (White oak phase)(Dwight Good stock)



RACERS

1.0 Eastern Yellow Belly racer "Nightcrawler" (MO locale)



KINGS

1.1 California king snake "Bandit and Moonstar" (Coastal phase)

1.0 Prairie king snake "Bishop" (KY locale)

0.1 Black king snake "Domino" (KY locale)

1.0 Desert Kingsnake "Gambit"

0.1 Florida Kingsnake



MILKS

0.0.1 Eastern Milk snake "Cable" (KY locale)

0.0.1 Eastern/Red milk intergrade "Omega Red" (KY locale)



BULLS/GOPHERS/PINES

0.1 Sonoran Gopher



Good luck and Happy Herping

Brian

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