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Posted by GregH on October 12, 2002 at 19:41:38:
In Reply to: Albino Rat Snake.... posted by chrish on October 12, 2002 at 12:26:59:
At first I thought it was a TX Rat but I kind of thought why would anyone want to produce an albino TX rat? I have a friend who thought it looked simmiliar in head shape to a gopher. When I got it I only had an albino corn snake for about 6 months
2 people now said a TX Rat. I thought the head was kind of big but then again the only other TX rats I ever saw were young. Thanks a lot for your post!
P.S. I like Chlorox.
:It is an albino rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta) of some sort. It looks like a leucistic TX Rat (I don't see any remnants of a pattern), but it is also amelanistic (albino) as it has no pigmentation in the eye (pink eyes). Some albino morphs of rat snake are almost patternless, so it may be hard to get any closer than some sort of albino E. obsoleta.
:I suggest you post your pics on your kingsnake.com account (every forum user has one - click the orange Free Photo Gallery link above) and post it on the Rat Snake forum. Someone there may be able to tell you more.
:By the way, about half the Leucistic TX Rats I have ever seen were named Snowflake (a good proportion of the others were named "Leucy" or "Lucy")! Why not Chlorox, or Blondie, or Frostie, or Alba, etc. Why is it always Snowflake? Must be a predestined thing!
:I had one for a few months that I called the anti-christ, but that was due its personality, not its appearance.
