Wild caught morphs

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I think you might be right Joe it looks like all the black has been removed. I guess i can't call it a black ratsnake haha.

[katach]

I was just realizing that BOTH of our Pugets don't have later stripes. Would that a morph?

[BLUESIRTALIS]

The corn snake that was posted is the Palmetto corn snake, which is only going to be for sale for the first time this year, and they are expensive and a half.
I think that corn snake is the same color morph as my white water snake.... The snake is white with just flecks of it's normal pattern. I like that blue eastern garter that was posted from NY... Cool stuff everyone.

What about the Ivory morph? That's what your water snake looks like to me but i could be wrong. It looks like the color on your snake shows more on the head and the top of the snake and the corn snakes is more scattered. Just a thought.

[annulataarethebest]

I may call it Ivory, if I have luck breeding her and reproducing the morph. I had her for at least a week and she finally just ate yesterday, 6 good sized tadpoles. Now she's just hanging out in the water bowl.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Either way no matter what you call it she is awesome. I hope she will start taking some mice for you.

[Starling96]

Either way no matter what you call it she is awesome. I hope she will start taking some mice for you.

Ditto

[annulataarethebest]

Thanks Shawn,
I actually don't see her taking mice anytime soon...
Within the first 2 days of her being in my care I offered her a bowl of food, 2 rosy reds and 2 fuzzy mice with very little hair that were rubbed with the rosy reds to smell like fish.. She didn't go anywhere near the bowl, and I was told she was feeding from a bowl.

I put 5 tadpoles in her water bowl, for 4 days they went untouched, and half of the time she was right near the bowl hanging out. The mistake was she couldn't see them because it was a dark water bowl, so I changed it to a see through one, immediately I saw that she would notice the tadpoles swimming up to the top. Within the next 24 hours she was in the bowl, and all 5 tadpoles were gone. Then she hung out in the bowl for 48 hours, in that time I threw 2 more tadpoles in, and she would only know they were there when they swam against her, then she would look for them.

And that's why I don't think she would take to mice, the prey needs to hit off of her in the water for her to be interested. Any time I tried to just offer her a tadpole outside of the water bowl she'd be more interested in fleeing. I don't think her eyesight is the best and she's more nervous than a lot of ringneck snakes I've had, lol.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I wonder if you could scent rat pinks with tadpoles and then take forceps and while she is in the water bowl touch her with it like it is brushing up against her, or scent a small live fuzzie with a toad or frog and put it in the cage.

[guidofatherof5]

Sounds like a good plan.

[d_virginiana]

That's a good idea. It's what we did to get my adult garter from fish to pinkies. If you have a lot of tads around, they work just as well as fish for scenting if not better IMO.