Wild caught morphs

[ConcinusMan]

I can't find it on kingsnake.com

[BLUESIRTALIS]

My friend who caught it in sc took it to show bill love and bill took some photos told him he thought it was a corn snake either piebald or calico so he kept it over a year with intentions of breeding it and someone made him an offer he couldn't resist so he sold it and the last i heard the guy produced some babies and is raising them up to breed out. I bet i will never be able to afford one though. Sometimes i look at the pic and i wonder if it is a black rat because the head appears longer, but i can't argue at all with bill because who knows corns better than bill love.

[RedSidedSPR]

Sometimes i look at the pic and i wonder if it is a black rat because the head appears longer, but i can't argue at all with bill because who knows corns better than bill love.

That's what I thought when I saw it. But what so I know?

[Philminator]

According to Bill Love it is a corn snake morph.

paradox to be exact. At least I hope I'm right.

[Philminator]

Piebald something. Does anyone know what species this snake is? ^^^

if I'm not mistaken it's a Paradox corn snake

[ConcinusMan]

*piebald* There's a difference.

[katach]

Does a red stripe NW count as a morph? Pleas excuse my ignorance.

[kibakiba]

No, it's polymorphism. I don't really think NW can have specific "morphs", since they are so polymorphic. The offspring of, say, my Runt and Hades could produce some red stripes, blue stripes and white stripes. You really never know what you're going to get with them.

[ConcinusMan]

Chantel's first sentence answers the question directly and simply.

There are "morphs" in Northwesterns. Melanistic is one, erythristic, and albino is another. The latter is rare, only found a few times, and never established as a captive morph. One was found last summer very close to me, and I tried like hell to get it from the kid who found it, so "we" could use the gene to make new morphs, but as usual, the fate of that albino and the identity of the person who ended up with it, (if anyone did) is lost.

He wouldn't even take $400 for it. I tried like heck. It wasn't enough for him and he didn't care anything about the potential that this mutation had for producing all kinds of unique snakes under the guidance of experienced breeders. All he cared about was his $600 asking price. That was more than I could do.

Last year's albino was basically a baby, slightly injured and emaciated. It would have needed some serious TLC to even make it to breeding age. It's probably dead now, is my guess.

We're left with one morph. A truly erythristic young male named "Flicker" and owned by a member of the same name who lives in my metro area. I tried numerous times to get that male to breed with my females but my females never did let him.

[kibakiba]

Didn't think about that. You can blame a night out with my friends for my lack of brain power. Haha.