Hello!
I've found these 2 corns (male and female) in a pet store. the male is around 2,5ft and the female a little more than 3 ft. They have really an unusual coloration. They told me that these are hypo motley X green X bloodred. I have fear thet they may be a sort of hybrids (corn x rat??) what do you think? I'm interested in them seriously but i don't want hybrids but only pure corns.
Thank you!
Flavio
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What kind of corn snake is this? PIC
python2000
May 15, 2003 12:22 PM
Replies (7)
DonSoderberg
May 15, 2003 12:41 PM
It's a Texas rat snake. Sometimes called hypo., but thought to be T albino. That's a pretty one, but it's nowhere near a corn snake.
Don
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derek b
May 15, 2003 04:03 PM
I'm with Don on this one. Looks just like my "lavender" albino Texas rats. Sorry, not a corn.
KeoniKoch
May 16, 2003 01:13 AM
Not a corn. Head screams rat.
python2000
May 16, 2003 03:18 AM
I'm sure they aren't albinos because they haven't red eyes. I think the're hypo.. is there a sort of hypo pure rat snake?
Thanx!
Flavio
Hotshot
May 15, 2003 01:11 PM
The one in the foreground is a black rat. Looks like albino, would have to look at its tongue. The saddles on the one in the background look like rat snake as well. I would have to see its head to be sure. I dont know what kind of color morph it would be, unless it what some are calling a rootbeer corn. Not sure.
Brian
Hotshot
May 15, 2003 01:13 PM
Not corn.
patricia sherman
May 17, 2003 12:06 PM
It is either a Texas rat, as others here have stated, or possibly an albino black rat. If the second snake is its sibling (and it probably is), then I also opt for Texas rat. Texas rats always have red tongues (even the normals and lavenders). So, check the tongue of the second baby - if red, then they're Texans - if not red, then they're blacks.
As to your question about whether they may be corn intergrades - I'd say almost surely not, since corn intergrades almost always show the arrow pattern (or at least a bit of it) on the head.
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tricia
