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This spectacularly coloured snake is Ish Pasty, a CORN SNAKE.  Corn snakes live mainly in the southern and eastern USA and are especially common in the Florida area.  Over many years they have become the most commonly kept and bred pet snake in both the UK and USA and they now come in a huge variety of colours and patterns. 

Ish Pasty is known as an amelanistic corn snake because he lacks the black pigment melanin, which is why he has pink eyes rather than the normal black eyes and why his orange and red pattern is so brightly coloured.  Most of the wild corn snakes in the USA do not look like Ish Pasty because they do not lack this pigment.  They would instead look like another corn snake which I used to have in my collection named Cob, who had the 'normal' wild colouration and black eyes and was equally as beautiful as Ish Pasty as I'm sure you'll agree!

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