I collected this juvi. black rat and wanted to get opinions on the pattern. I can post more pics if needed.
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WC Black rat
dartbreeder
Apr 23, 2006 11:50 PM
Replies (7)
phiber_optikx
Apr 24, 2006 03:27 AM
Could be a naturally occuring mutation. Striped maybe? Or it could just be abberant. Breed it and see! Here is one that was given to me last week. She has been in captivity for a week and is just as tame as my cb black rats.
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"
0.0.1 Black Ratsnake "Shadow"
BillMcgElaphe
Apr 24, 2006 06:10 AM
Has your picture been stretched vertically?
Proportions are strange.
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Regards, Bill McGighan
dartbreeder
Apr 24, 2006 01:33 PM
this is a little better pic.
phiber_optikx
Apr 24, 2006 02:15 PM
Where are you from? It could possibly be an integrade.....
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"
0.0.1 Black Ratsnake "Shadow"
dartbreeder
Apr 24, 2006 03:25 PM
I live in Grantville, Ga. the only possibilities is a black ratsnake, a gray ratsnake, or a intergrade of the two.
dan felice
Apr 25, 2006 06:30 AM
gray rats usually have gray eyes, black rats won't. cool pattern on that little guy! here's a pic of an 18 month old texas rat i got from thomas davis some time ago. he's still a bit nasty, the snake that is.......lol!
kingmilk
Apr 25, 2006 09:31 PM
You've got you and abberant there. I have seen plenty of black rat/gray rat intergrades, and they dont look like that. It will be very interesting to see how that one grows up. I suspect it is an abberant gray, but as someone else pointed out in this thread, the eyes will help you a great deal in determining which it is based on eye color. I think you might potentially have something real cool there.
BDR
Panoplia Geneticus
