Quote Originally Posted by Mindibun View Post
As for crossing them with corns, I read somewhere that "all rat snakes are corn snakes, but not all corn snakes are rat snakes." (I'm pretty sure that's how it went. Maybe I have it reversed.) Anyway, the thinking is that corn snakes are a wider group than most people give them credit for. "Rat snakes" and "king snakes" are arguably part of that group (depending on whom you talk to) but we've kind of "split hairs" about it and gotten more groups. Again, this is just something I read a while back. I can't even cite it, so don't take it too seriously.
Right on the money.
However, I don't know how well a hybrid would survive. I haven't seen or heard of many, so I assume there are issues.
Rat snakes are a grouping of tons of different snakes.
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_snake it explains many of the different branches and 'types' of rat snakes out there, one of them includes corn snakes. ;]

Edit: Also fantastic looking white sided! Others that I have seen pictures of are not nearly as beautiful as that!