I picked this little girl up from Floyd Presley last week. Her parents are "hypo." I've never seen a hypo black rat, asides from the babies he sells. He assures me it is not albino, because they develop melanin as they grow. The adults tend to be red, silver, and brown, with silver heads. Anyone have pics of what they'd be?
It almost sounds to me like they'd be T albino. Is this yet another strain of albino in black rat snakes?
I would say albino, and just watch her grow, and see how she turns out, but the thing that throws me of is that she has NO belly pattern whatsoever. Her belly is solid white, from chin to tail tip. Not even a hint of any color or pattern. My other albino has a hint of belly pattern, and did even as a baby, and all of my other black rats have belly pattern.

Also, the colors are slightly off. I'm struggling to get color-accurate photos of her. It seems like no matter what I do, she looks more red in photos. The closest ones are the first ones. The ones where she looks dark red . . refer back to the first ones, and keep that dark bubble-gum color in mind.






thanks,
Ronnie Nocera

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• unknown black rat morph - Redmoon, Fri Feb 22 07:25:30 2008
• oops. . . - Redmoon, Fri Feb 22 07:26:23 2008
• RE: unknown black rat morph - DMong, Fri Feb 22 12:30:05 2008
• RE: unknown black rat morph - Redmoon, Fri Feb 22 13:11:06 2008
• I look forward to the pics!....n/p - DMong, Fri Feb 22 14:14:59 2008
• "rusty" maybe! - ameratsnake, Sat Feb 23 04:42:31 2008
• a slim chance . . . - Redmoon, Sat Feb 23 11:29:53 2008
• also - - Redmoon, Sat Feb 23 13:32:42 2008
• RE: also - - draybar, Sat Feb 23 14:47:33 2008
• the brighter - Redmoon, Sat Feb 23 20:55:04 2008
• RE: the brighter - draybar, Sun Feb 24 10:44:26 2008
• RE: unknown black rat morph - hermanbronsgeest, Sat Feb 23 14:02:51 2008
• RE: unknown black rat morph - DMong, Sat Feb 23 14:34:02 2008
• RE: unknown black rat morph - Dwight Good, Sat Feb 23 14:51:37 2008
• I tend to agree.... - DMong, Sat Feb 23 17:48:41 2008
• RE: unknown black rat morph - Redmoon, Sat Feb 23 20:58:16 2008
• RE: unknown black rat morph - hermanbronsgeest, Sun Feb 24 03:47:40 2008
• RE: unknown black rat morph - dre, Mon Feb 25 18:50:47 2008
• sounds about right - ameratsnake, Mon Feb 25 20:01:30 2008
• wow. . . - Redmoon, Mon Feb 25 20:45:39 2008