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Help with ID, corn or not!!!

herpster

herpster

I'm a herpaholic
I got this little guy today, now he has cornsnake markings, and was wondering if he is a corn or cross corn with something else, he is absolutely gorgeous and just couldnt resist, he is sort of mustard coloured with very faint corn saddles, like a grey blue colour. I was thinking rat x corn, or just a diff morph of corn, heres a few pix.


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Wow...

Wow herpster, thats a real beauty.

I wish i could help with the ID process, but I'm still new to corns, so i'm obviously no help. Congrats on the *great* snake though!
 
Hmm. Does have saddles.....yellow rats dont have that. I've personally never seen a black rat/yellow rat hybird. However, I have seen a yellow rat/corn combo and that animal had a rat head----this one doesn't seem to have a ratsnake head, which is why I'm confused.

I'll bow down and wait for someone higher up to answer this.
 
I would have to disagree Joejr. We have a few ratsnake babies and they all have heads just like that one. As for the saddles, I have an everglade rat snake that has saddles on it. Now, I couldn't tell you what kind of snake that is but I would bet it's at least a rat snake of some sort.
 
I will have to agree with Jason...Looks like an intergrade between a yellow and a black rat...has a rattish looking head...Looks different from corn heads that I have sen and am use to seeing...

HTH,
 
I think either a yellow rat or a greenish rat. Yellow rats DO have saddles when they are young. As they mature, those saddles change into stripes. Weird, huh?
 
Thanx for the input guys its much appreciated, his head does look corn to me, I have a rat snake and the head is usually much bigger and slightly shaped different, although my rat is adult, this one could mature to the same as him, all the same he is beautiful, thanx again :)
 
It looks like a young yellow rat snake to me. Babies are completely blotched, but gradually transform into the striped yellow snake we are used to seeing pictures of as yellow rat snakes.
 
Here are some pics of a south Florida yellow rat from Dwight Good. They show some of the change that was described. :)

As a littl'un:
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8 months later:
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That is definately a juvenile yellow rat snake. We have bred plenty of them and all the babies come out with saddles. They start becoming yellow as they get older and the saddles eventually turn to stripes. Beautiful snake though!

Chantel (SOUTH AFRICA)
 
Checkerbelly said:
I can't believe nobody has mentioned bairdi. Look at that metallic sheen!

am I too late?
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ummm...I have a couple of bairdi and they don't look anything like this. Are you saying you think it is a bairdi crossed with something else?
 
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