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Here's a couple of pics of my 2005 white-oak Grey Rat. Picked up this male from Dwight Good last year. For natural beauty, these guys are hard to beat.

Steve

Beautiful. I went to school at FSU in the Florida panhandle and used to catch grey rats all the time. There is so much variation in those guys. The ones around Tallahassee were generally very light colored, much like yours. I never got tired of them. I agree with your statement that they are hard to beat for natural beauty. Very underrated.
Mike

Here is my big, beautiful WC from there....

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Lloyd Heilbrunn

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.

You folks know how much I hate Gray rat Snakes .... (LOL) OK, just a few photos of my kids.

Note that the pair under the hide are sisters, and one of them is very dark and the other is quite normal. She is as dark as some of the photos that I have seen posted of Mid West Black Rats.

I know that a lot of people who post on this forum and the Corn Snake forum go for the rare morphs, but if you ask me, wild types are the best.

Steve, can you post a photo or two of that D.G. Black Rat pup that you got a while back. I would love to see how much it has darkened up for you. I have never had any dealings with D.G., but he seems to produce classic examples of W.T. E. obsoleta.

This picture should give you a hint.

Just as a copperhead is at home in the leaf litter, so is grey rat blending in with the bark of a tree. Excellent photo.

Steve

That's a beautiful trio of Grey Rats with a normal, dark, and the light (white-oak)
I'll take an updated pic of my 05 black rat from Dwight and post it at the top of the forum.

Steve

That's not as dark as a midwest black rat

I know what you meant. I love your greys. If you ever have any up for sale I will have to take one.
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 MO Locale Black Ratsnake "Molly" (Flogging Molly)

As we say in Missouri, "I ain't goin back to Missouri!"

Beautiful Lloyd. Approx. how large is your grey?

Steve

I'd say 5-5 1/2 foot by now.I need to take a better pic, too.

One of the mellowest rats I've ever seen,never tried to bite,and has not musked other than the day I caught him.
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Lloyd Heilbrunn

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.