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.toDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Thu. Nov 8, 2012)
#110812
Kastanie
Male
d.o.h. 2011
33″ long on Nov. 6, 2012
33″ long on Nov. 6, 2012
$375.00 shipped
Details:
Kastanie (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Kastanie
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Single Recessive Mutation
Most Commonly Used Name: Kastanie
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Single Recessive Mutation
Eye Color: Black pupil & body ground-colored iris
The first Kastanie to be discovered was by a German Corn Snake Breeder and teacher named Frank Schaub. The English translation of Kastanie is Chestnut. That was before the year 2000. Since that discovery, the Kastanie mutation has been bred into many other color and pattern mutations to produce beautifully-colored corn snakes. The mutation is recessive to wild type.
What to expect:
Most hatchlings are quite differently colored than their adult counterparts. Some neonatal Kastanies look like many Anery Corn Snakes, showing very little color at all. The example here is a six month-old neonate.
Generally, they are anything from mahogany to mocha colored with contrasting markings against ground color zones. As they mature, they usually darken, but the color scheme seen in most non-albino corns (the first 1/4 to 1/3 of the body having more color-saturated colors) is pronounced in Kastanies.