Show & Tell
A 2016 female Scaleless Extreme Okeetee corn snake that will be headed to Canada as soon as SHIPPING weather improves.
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) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids. A subject of debate is the question, “how many generations of breeding away from one of the original species are necessary to consider them pure corn snakes?”. Reality dictates that if you put a drop of milk into a glass of water, it’s milk water, but if you pour that glass of milk water into a swimming pool of water, it is still fundamentally milk water. We can all see that some of the shared genes between those two species will be retained in future generations, causing features not common to one, both, or either species. I definitely understand that even only 1% alien species proportion–even 500 generations after the first inter-species hybridization–constitutes ALL descendants as being hybrids, but many species and sub-species toDAY are thought to be the result of ancient hybridization between species or genera? At SMR, we prefer to call all snakes “hybrids” if we are certain that they have alien ancestry?