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Type of corns?

Azul/Corazon

Azul/Corazon

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What morphs are these? The first one, I dont really know. The second the friend I got it from says its a ghost mottley. dont know if this is correct correct or not though.

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The first doesn't look like a corn at all to me, but more of a rat snake. Perhaps even a black rat.

The second looks to be an anery (not ghost) motley :)
 
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Tula_Montage said:
The first doesn't look like a corn at all to me, but more of a rat snake x. Perhaps even a black rat.

The second looks to be an anery (not ghost) motley :)
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Thanks ^^

What's the difference between a rat and a corn snake? I've always been told they're the same thing basically. If it's a black rat, that could explain why it, along with the other one my friend had are somewhat agressive.
 
Same difference :p Corns ARE ratsnakes, but ratsnakes aren't corn snakes lol.

Black rats are somewhat renowned for being aggressive babies. But apparently they grow out of it quickly...
 
I'm awful with morphs... But I would trust Elle's (Tula_Montage) judgement... I also wanted to say that I love the heart on the Anery's head!! :) You've got some cute babies!
 
They are both members of the Pantherophis genus, but different species. Pantherophis encompasses most North American ratsnakes, including corns, balck rats, Texas rats, gray rats, Baird's rats, Emory's rats, and Everglade's rats. Trans Pecos rats and Baja rats are both classified in the Bogertophis genus...

Anyhow...to the original question...

The first one looks like a black ratsnake(Pantherophis obsoleta) and the second looks like an anery motley corn(Pantherophis guttata).
 
corns are just a type of rat snake. You can also have bairds rat, everglades rat, black rat, yellow rat - further afield you get mandrian rats, red tailed rats, korean rat...all sorts really.

actually...just look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_snake

They're all different snakes in the same family with different patterns and localities. The corn and black rat are quite similar as babies though, more so than other species. The black rat will change as it gets older to somewhat solid black colour, I think they're larger too. You can kind of tell by head shape, it's hard to explain, it just kind of comes with looking a hundreds of corn pictures. Eventually you get to a point where you can say "that is NOT a corn".

I saw a bairdis at the pet store the other day labeled as a ghost stripe corn, it was an abandoned animal they found. Not everyone is good at the 'it's not a corn' thing.
 
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