Snake of the Day 05-02-18

Show & Tell

This is the last Scaleless Sunglow Motley corn snake of the first 2018 season wave of eggs.  I have one more shot at these again in a few months.  Featured recently–describing that this scale-less version of a Sunglow Motley demonstrates that their pattern is the result of at least two dermal layers.  We can see that there is less color and contrast in the scale-less version, compared to most of its scaled counterparts? BTW, at the time of this photograph, this snake had not yet shed her first skin.  She was only four DAYs-old a few DAYs ago.

note:  ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including SCALED corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation–aka Het Scaleless) are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake).  Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled siblings) are inter-species hybrids.  BONUS  PICs . . .