Show & Tell
First, thank you, Tara Small, for the opportunity to work with these awesome (if not ODD) looking corn snake mutants. Formerly called MicroPave, the MicroScale corn snake mutants have what you’d expect; noticeably small and misshapen scales. Not unlike the Scaleless corn snakes, MicroScale mutants have scales that are small, irregular in shape, orientation, and body zone locations, but of course, many many more such scales than Scaleless corn mutants. Virtually all of MicroScale corns are missing many scales around the head and neck regions, and because many of the head scales are missing, like Scaleless, their eyes look a little buggy, even though they are the same size as any other corn snake eyes. In the next two DAYs I’ll be explaining some of the genetic mechanics of this fascinating mutation. AND, I’ll show the world–for the first time–our triple mutant MicroScale corn snake that hatched recently; two color mutations, plus MicroScale.