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These are Moonshine rat snakes. The original male was found in Horry County, SC by my friend Jim Godfrey. It is a tyrasinase positive albino (T albino). He also captured a female normal colored about 100 yds from where he found the Moonshine male. This is about as locale specific as it gets! And it is a locale specific morph to boot!! These come from the integrade region where black rat snakes and yellow rat snake range overlap producing the greenish rat snake. The name Moonshine rat snake was coined because the pattern on the original male's head reminded Jim of the craters you see when looking at the moon. The sire to my hatchlings was the original wild caught Moonshine male. These are the very first visual to visual breeding hatchlings. When they mature the take on a very bright yellow coloring that is much brighter than the yellow rat snakes.




Here is an adult

? I thought they were more whitish and greenish?...the original one?....

I like them....just having a brain slip here.....

,,,congrats.....cool rats....!!!!
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........JY

They are getting lighter with each shed. When I said "original" I was just referring to the history of the morph by mentioning that Jim Godfrey is who found the first one while herping. I just like it because so far it is a locale specific morph but it's just a matter of time before someone combines it with something else. I am tempted to try it with the cow sucker!

? so is the original one greenish?...or my brain remember wrong....

they are all cool...always loved ratsnakes....
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........JY

Yes the original is a visual morph of the greenish that was also wild caught. As far as I know the people who have obtained them and their hets have only bred them back to greenish rats. My male is the fist visual to visual breeding that Jim did.

Hi, I actually bought one of the hets from Jim, and he is amazing. Still small, but growing. Only just got him in January. He's a light green, and I'm not sure how to put pictures up on here, but an existing image, that is almost identical to mine, is posted somewhere on this forum, by the user DMong, if you look there. Can find it on through bing image search as well.

I am pretty familiar with Doug Mong and exactly what yours looks like and you are right. They are great snakes!! I picked up 1.2 visuals from Jim and the best part was meeting him in SC and talking snakes for the better part of an hour. My trio was sired by the original WC male with one of the females coming from the first ever visual to visual breeding. I love these guys!!