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Hey Doug, I was wondering how the project is going so far and if you had some new photos to post. Having grown up in southeast NC the Greenish are near and dear to my heart. Thanks, Alex

Hi Alex,........

Well, I didn't breed them this season, but I certainly will next year. I'm glad you find these snakes very interesting as well.

Here is one of the wild-caught locality females Jim bred the original morph with back in 2008. (photo by Jim Godfrey)

a very light phase individual that looks like an amel that also has pink eyes. This is a very old pic shortly after I first acquired them.

Here is a fairly recent shot of him.

Here is a pic of the darker morph female shortly after I got her as well. Note the darker tan/brown coloration and what appear to be solid BLACK pupils. They might even be black here and they gradually underwent an ontogenetic change to the deep ruby/red.

later on I was surprised to find out that the eye coloration became a bit lighter and discovered that they were actually a deep ruby/red coloration.

I wish the snakes head was turned a bit more to open the iris more. It would clearly depict that her eyes are not black at all, but very deep red. I think these snakes are probably tyrosinase-positive albinos rather than hypos. They certainly aren't amelanistic (t-negative).

Here is a pic taken a while back of one of the normal phenotype hets. I really like the coloration of this one a lot!!..

cheers, ~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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Awesome, Doug. Thanks for the photos and info. I look forward to future updates, and I look forward to adding some of my hometown critters to my collection some day.

Sure thing Alex,.....my pleasure!

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

I'll be watching for these too. I worked out in Dare Co., NC for a year back in 2007 and used to see a striped version of Greenish Black Ratsnakes fairly frequently. I have no pictures unfortunately, but the stripes were like the one in my picture just with a greenish tint to everything...

Black Ratsnakes

Hey Doug, do you know anything about the albino Greenish that are floating around? Are they a true albino Greenish or was the gene introduced by breeding with some other albino rat snake?