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is this a corn snake?

michieldewit

michieldewit

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Someone is trying to sell this to me as a corn snake, it doesn't look like a corn snake to me and if it is it must be pretty rare, anyone know what it is?

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What makes you guys say hybrid? The pattern? I mean, it's obviously gopher/bull something. But why not pure? And if hybrid, I don't see how you can tell what the other component is.
 
"Turbo snake" I just about peed! :laugh:

that just sounds funny as heck, but I agree..
he's handsome, I'd take him corn or not! :eek:
 
Nanci that's a really good point. I based my guess on the fact that it was sold as a corn, and knowing that there are breeders who sell "turbo corns" my thought was that the seller was either unsure what it was, bought it as a corn or didn't want to sell it as a hybrid.
 
My local reptile store has an albino gopher snake that looks very similar

The only real difference is the one at the store has more yellow
 
If you think of those bullsnake x cornsnakes that Oren was showing pics of, that ended up being not Tesseras, they were virtually indistinguishable from cornsnakes. This snake doesn't have anything about it that says "cornsnake" to me at all.

Maybe the seller is just not familiar with snakes and thinks it's an amel cornsnake.
 
I'd chalk it up as an albino bull snake (Pituophis catenifer sayi) or possibly one of the whitest albino sonoran gophers (Pituophis catenifer affinis) I've ever seen.
 
Well the colors are simply off, that's why I am quite confident that this is a hybrid. The pattern too is just too disorganized as well.

Albino Gophers and Bullsnakes are yellow and orange, or in the case of the "Applegate" albino, yellow, red, and white borders to saddles- all of these can be seen in these:





The colors on the animal above was labeled as Corn, and has a color palette more common to Albino Corns.
 
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