glad I came back to visit the rat snake page or I would have missed this!



Thanks for sharing those pics. I wish I had more rat snake pics to share as well, but I see them so often I guess I take them for granted and rarely take pics of them. The county I live in is more west-central than north. I guess I should have made that a little clearer. If you know where the University of AL is in Tuscaloosa I am located just 40 miles north of there in Fayette County. Most of the rat snakes from that area are grayish brown and an occasional darker specimen that's really dark gray, almost black. Those pics you posted are very similar to what we usually see.





Since catching that really yellow rat I posted a while back I have had the opportunity to see several very nice yellow phase black/gray intergrades from Huntsville, and they are not the same as the snake I have. I guess it's really hard for cameras and on-screen viewing to share the beauty of some animals. I'm still under the impression that the one I have is still a hypo of sorts. It is just far too different and ghostly than any other snake I've ever seen. The other yellow gray rats I've seen(and I've seen around 30 or so in the last few years) haven't looked even remotely close to this snake in person. Maybe I can capture some good representative pics before I release it. That's what I have decided to do. It has been eating very well on rats and quail from RP, but it is not adapting to the captive environment very well at all. So I have decided to release it back on my folks farm. It spends all day and night rubbing it's nose on the enclosure and has developed quite a noserub. The last thing I want to see is this snake end up with health issues over my curiosity to breed it out.



But thanks for sharing all those pics!

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