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Are these all pure or was one of these used to produce the other two. are their any other white sided snakes species out there? I noticed white sided Brooksi have ruby eyes is that the same for w/s speckled and black rats?
For some reason when 1st saw white sided Brooksi I thought black rat X Brooksi hybrid, but a few days ago I saw a w/s speckled and I began thinking OK... w/s speckled X Brooksi Intergrade.

Can any of you clarify this for me?

N please more pix of the white sided speckled... very very nice.

None of the white-sided projects came into exhistence through hybridizing.The first W/S black rats that I saw offered was some years back at the Orlando Expo.A man[don't know his name]offered them in Orlando Expo for 2 maybe 3 years before seeing anyone else having them.They were a pure strain then.The first W/S brooksi was found by me when out-crossing a LLoyd Lemke strain axanthic in 1997.The W/S speckle was produced by Terry Vanderventer.He acquired the original wild caught male from the person who caught it.It was kept as a pet for some 10 years or longer before Terry acquired it.The W/S speckle is the only W/S morph that was wild caught to my knowledge.Don't forget the W/S bulls,I think they were produced by Craig Trumbauer.There is also a W/S morph either in a boa species or blood python species.All of these are pure strains.A ribbon snake was wild caught here in Louisiana,it was beleived to be leaucistic,now with age,it looks more white-sided,it developed a pattern on its back.