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FailPending
08-19-13, 06:41 PM
Posted this at the end of my into post. Wondering if anyone could tell me what kind of rat this is.
BoaBoy91
08-19-13, 06:47 PM
Eastern Gray Rat snake?
Mikoh4792
08-19-13, 06:55 PM
Eastern Gray Rat snake?

Doesn't look full grey to me. I have a grey rat snake and it looks different.

Looks to be either a yellow rat snake or an integrade with yellow rat genes mixed in.
StudentoReptile
08-20-13, 05:51 AM
Gray rat snakes are VERY variable depending on their locality. Just the ones here in SW Alabama vary. The ones from Mobile County look more like TX rats and the ones in Baldwin Co are more of the "oak phase" look.
FailPending
08-20-13, 12:24 PM
Yeah, the guy I got him from said he bought him in Florida. But with his temperament and living conditions(much less the people who gave him to me having dirt floors and such) I'm starting to wonder if he was wild caught...
Mikoh4792
08-20-13, 02:14 PM
:blink:Gray rat snakes are VERY variable depending on their locality. Just the ones here in SW Alabama vary. The ones from Mobile County look more like TX rats and the ones in Baldwin Co are more of the "oak phase" look.

This is correct. My grey is a white oak phase. However op your snake doesn't seem to have any characteristics of a grey.

It could also have bairds rat snake genes in it. No one can know for sure except the breeder of the snake if it is CBb.
BoaBoy91
08-20-13, 10:11 PM
i found this Eastern Gray Ratsnake in Hoboken, Georgia (http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/wildlife/grayratsnakephotos.htm) it seemed to look the same to me but it could be listed wrong......but to me it looks like the same type
BoaBoy91
08-20-13, 10:12 PM
haha quick text i didnt to say it looked the same twice lol my bad
Mikoh4792
08-20-13, 10:15 PM
i found this Eastern Gray Ratsnake in Hoboken, Georgia (http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/wildlife/grayratsnakephotos.htm) it seemed to look the same to me but it could be listed wrong......but to me it looks like the same type

That might just be it. I'm surprised, since I have never seen a grey rat that looked like that. The only ones I have seen were white oak phases and the normal, darker phases that look like texas rats.
BoaBoy91
08-20-13, 10:24 PM
yeah i think its one of those cases where they aren't usually that color but it can happen. I mean it wouldnt be called the gray rat snake if it was usually that brown/greenish color haha