Snake of the Day 06-11-13

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

 

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Fortunately for me (and two dozen 2013 customers), I had overlooked a clutch of 20+ eggs from a pair of Banded Fluorescent corns (part of which is shown above-right).  They shed yesterDAY, so I will be offering them their first meals toDAY.  5-7 DAYs later, I’ll offer a second unaltered frozen/thawed pinky mouse to each of them, and after four DAYs of digesting, I will begin setting up shipping schedules for them.  Here-to-fore, I thought I had only seven eggs hatching this early – from a different pair of Banded Fluorescents, but this clutch completely surprised me (too many eggs incubating).  They look like a GREAT lot, as this picture shows all of them in the middle of their first shed.  Historically speaking, 98% of this brood will never refuse a meal – from week one.  Like their parents (mother, left-hand image), these will mature to have clean and saturated triads with crisp-white band margins.  HOW MANY HATCHLINGS ARE IN THE PHOTO ON THE RIGHT??  Ctrl key along with the + key will enlarge the page.