Show & Tell
Color update on one of the 2015 Cherry Amel Tessera corn snake compound mutants. Photographed on the green side of a U.S. dollar for color reference, this sub-2-year-old demonstrates an embarrassment of red for its age, but from seeing how much more red it is at THIS age–more-so than other red-modifiers–AND via how long it takes other red-modifying genes to manifest–I’m confident that there is still more–and perhaps deeper–reds in its future? I recall selling only one of these to a special friend, but next year, I will surely have enough of these to sell at large? What’s tantalizingly significant about that statement is that toDAY’s featured corn SHOULD be a Visual-het. That historically promises that the next generation of breeding two of these together should demonstrate an additional exaggeration of red (if that’s even possible) in some of the F2s, since some of those will be homozygotes of the Cherry mutation (via possessing both of the paired Cherry gene copies)? Ps, some of the next generation COULD also be Tessera homozygotes (aka: Super Tesseras). That is a rare potential, but an exciting one since Super Tesseras produce 100% Tesseras when bred to ANY corn snake morph or mutation.