toDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Wed Nov 21, 2012)
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Comments: From the Scratch and Dent department, this 2011 male Striped Anery has a dorsal spinal enlargement. His parents were both het for the Dilute mutation, so he is possibly a Blue Striped corn and I even believe him to be a Tessera since his father is a Tessera het Dulute Anery Motley (aka: Blue Motley). Obviously, were I certain of that genotype, he would be much more expensive, so this is a rare opportunity to pick up a potentially rare corn at a very low price.
He eats normally and has never been ill a DAY in his life. The spinal anomaly is the same proportional size it was when he hatched, so I don’t expect it to become any more obvious than it currently is. In fact, most spinal anomalies like this actually appear smaller with the dorso-lateral growth of musculature in that part of the body, nor do I expect this anomaly to have any deletarious impact on his life. He eats large frozen/thawed fuzzy mice and has never had a lapse of appetite or ability to digest. His temperament is typically corn snake, in that he is curious and has never demonstrated the slightest repulsion to being handled.
The bubble view in the upper-right corner of the above picture demonstrates the geographic location of the spinal anomaly and in the upper-left corner, the extent of the spinal protrustion. If nobody buys him, we’re going to breed him to a Blue Motley (Dilute Anery Motley) in 2013 to find out if he’s a Tessera. He had several Tessera siblings and from the perfetion of shape and contiguity of his striping, I stop just short of declaring that his is actually a Striped Blue Tessera. His father is a Tessera Het Striped Blue Motley and his mother was het for Striped Blue Motley.