Rarest of the North American rat snakes. Most long time reptile people who live in the Florida Keys say that they have never seen one in the wild. Deckerts rats have the beautiful coloration of a Everglades rat with four greenish colored stripes. Average four feet as adults.
This large milksnake is tri-colored at birth but becomes darker and darker with each shed until they are completely glossy black. Four to six feet as adults.
This locality is as close to a naturally occurring blood red corn snake as it gets and is found around Hastings Florida. This animal has reduced black pigment and the ground color is almost the same as the blotching. The belly pattern of a Hastings Red Rat is a yellow and white checker board.