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Like DMongs' beauty he posted here? Nice distinct lines and even yellow. Not recessive for any traits and crossed with any other kind of snake? Thanks.

I have a pair collected as juvenals from Miami Co. They're about six years old now and bred last year. I kept the lightest one to see what she looks like when she colors up. That's a few years away. Her pic is attached. The adult male is classic yellow rat with a bit of pattern remaining, barely noticeable. The adult female is lemon yellow with reduced lines.

I prefer wild type animals for my collection but I've observed that snake-nervous persons from general audiences will often relax around certain morphs, like albinos, perhaps because the morphs seem more "domesticated". After apprehensive newcomers explore a snake through an encounter with a morph, they sometimes develop an appreciation for snakes which might not have happened but for their encounter with a selectively bred animal to ease them into it. Morphs definitely have a place in herpetoculture and reptile public relations.

That looks like a hypo something too me. I've never seen a yellow rat snake so light. I'd love to see a picture of the female adult.
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Nope, that one is "classic" in every sense of the word. I remember receiving shipments of Yellow Rats where everyone looked like that. This is another example of the value of selective breeding. The challenge of making the "classic look", the normal look once again is a venture that should provide years of interesting work.

Wow,now that is light!! Would love to see that as an adult!
Jeff

Yes. Would love to see pics of adults too.

Thanks again Bob!, happy that you and some others appreciate that nice yellow fellow.......

cheers, ~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"