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I'm trying to find another rat snake than a corn snake that has plenty of morphs to choose from and all. I heard Red Rat Snakes are good too.

>>I'm trying to find another rat snake than a corn snake that has plenty of morphs to choose from and all. I heard Red Rat Snakes are good too.

red rat snake is another name for corn snakes.
Of the rat snakes, corns have the most varience.
you may want to look into the Trans Pecos rat snakes, there are quite a few beautiful Trans Pecos morphs.
Black rats have a few.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes...No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
Draybars Snakes

Red Rat's are just another common name for cornsnakes. They are both "one and the same".

Black ratsnakes come in quite a few different morphs. They come in genetic mutations such as......

Black Rat morphs:

amel (i.e. albino)
Cinnamon
Albino Cinnamon
Lemon Cow Sucker
albino Lemon Cow Sucker
Albino "Rusty"
Brindle
Calico
leucistic
White-sided
axanthic
hypoxanthic (extremely reduced yellow pigment except for a few random colored scales here and there)
Lavender
Hypomelanistic

Texas Ratsnake morphs:

albino
axanthic
hypomelanistic
leucistic
white-sided

There are several other North American ratsnakes that come in similar morphs too, as well as other species like Asian/European rats, etc..

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Good suggestions from Jimmy and Doug, above.

Also, there are a couple Old World species which have several morphs each.

Steppes Ratsnake (Elaphe dione) has several morphs, phases, and locales - although most of them have yet to make it to the U.S.

Chinese Beauty Snake (Orthriophis taeniurus taeniurus) also has several morphs, a few of which are available in the U.S.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research