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This is a snake I bought at The Charlotte Repticon. He told me it was a Blizzard Corn Snake, but it doesn't have the pink eyes. It has black eyes. I am starting to think it is a rat snake. Can anyone tell me which one it is?

Ryan
 
Does it have smooth or keeled scales? Corn snakes have smooth scales, while ratsnakes in the genus Elaphe have keeled scales (they have a ridge running down the center of each scale, like the keel of a sailboat). It's a quick and dirty way to tell the two apart.
 
He's a corn snake if he's got smooth scales, so the species is right. I'm not up to date on corn snake morph vocabulary, but a blizzard leopard gecko is leucistic, not albino. Leucistic animals have black eyes, albinos have red. So, if blizzard = leucistic, then the black eyes are right.
 
I've just done some research too, and Texas rat snakes also have smooth scales, except for some scales alone the spine which can be mildly keeled. I haven't been able to find any information on leucistic corn snakes either, so I'm guessing your initial hunch was correct. It seems this is a leucy Texas rat snake.
 
Yea, but I just did some research, and I have found out that rat snakes have kind of bulgy eyes, but there is a rat snake corn snake hybrid, where the eyes don't bulge. That is what I am now thinking it is.
 
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