We are just too excited not to share this !!
We're not due to get him until November/December, but we just received some pics from the breeder, and I wanted to share.

Have you ever seen such an unusual and stunning rat snake?!??
The two bottom pics are of the babies, the top left is the mother, and the top right the father, showing how the cute little corn-like babies will look when they grow up! These stunners are Royal Diadem or Egyptian Rat Snakes. Unfortunately there are only young males left, so we will hopefully get a female friend for our little guy some time next year. Roll on Nov/Dec!!

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Awwwww Rachel they are adorable !!!!!!

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Ken
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Ummm..... lol... are you sure those aren't little hognoses? They look amazingly similar.

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Nobody?

Me neither.

Lol they do don't they - I think the babies look like a mixture of a corn snake and a western hognose!!

The adults are amazing though, they look like no snake I've ever seen before, hopefully our beauty will be as stunning when it's older.

Thanks Ken

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Congratulations on your soontobe rat snakes! I just had two delivered to my door yesterday morning. Good luck!

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Thank you! Congratulations on your newbies! - what kind of rats are they? Pics????

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E. climacophora - Japanese rat snake
E. bairdi - Mexican Baird's rat snake

No pictures yet. But soon!

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0.1 Elaphe taeniura vaillanti - Sora

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I love you, Mom.

Oh wow, can't wait!! Joe in particularly is becoming really fascinated by the various species of rat snakes there are out there, and I have to admit they are beautiful! Looking forward to seeing your photos, pics of ours as soon as he arrives!

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WHOOHOOOOOOOO Another new set of babies on the way!!!
What kind of Rat Snake did they say they are Bitis?
Very unusual adult colors!
I'm jealous (again) lol

Very nice Rachel.

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