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here is what i do know; i bought him from a breeder who was breeding both corns and gray rats. the breeder told me he is a corn. i raised him from a hatchling. he didn't look like other gray rat babies. his saddles were much darker when he was a baby(almost black).
i think he might be a hybrid because he is six feet long and gray. but i think his markings look more like a corn except his belly(but, i never saw a gray rats belly).

what are your thoughts?

I think it is a cross between a Gray and a Great Plains Rat Snake. It has mostly Gray coloring except for the classic spear point marking on the top of its head.

it does look a bit corn influenced , definately has grey in it , poss rootbeer mixed in
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0.0.1 Dusky pygmy rattlesnake
1.0 Amelanistic greatplains ratsnake
0.1 Greatplains ratsnake
0.1 Amelanistic Cornsnake
1.1 Everglades Ratsnake
0.1 Greenish ratsnake
1.1 Speckled kingsnake
1.1 eastern garters
1.1 stripeless garters
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1.1 anoles
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and a bangin @ss drumset

Certainly looks like it could be a Cornsnake / Grey Ratsnake hybrid, but with all these Cornsnake morphs who knows? If it has Grey Rat blood in it, then it should be a lot bigger than your average Corn.

Whatever it is, it doesn't look bad.

Regards, Herman.

It looks almost identical to a Wild caught gray rat I had 18 years ago.

its possible to be some type of integrade, but it does look like it could be straight up gray rat too.

I have to go with a Gray/Corn cross, but Gray/emory's is very possible.
Size, side blotches, and general look are Gray.
Spear point on head and checkerboard belly is guttata.
This is assuming it is, in fact, a pure Gray / pure Corn hybrid and not a Heintz 57!!! LOL.
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Regards, Bill McGighan

that head looks like a corn's to me(narrow and a bit smaller that obsoleta's in proportion to body;of course the head pattern too)....i would say just an anerythristic corn,or could have some gray rat in it.but looks to be at least half cornsnake,imo.
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"with head raised regally,and gazing at me with lidless eyes,he seemed to question with flicks of his long forked tongue my right to trespass on his territory" Carl Kauffeld