24″ long on Nov. 30, 2012
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. Also – from my experience with such anomalies/malformities – I do not 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. I have never known such an anomaly/malformation to be heritable. We believe such anomalies occur during embryology and are akin to injuries any animal incurs in its life.
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This snake is in good health (not under or over-weight, no parasites or diseases that we are aware, no injuries or defects, and routinely feeding on unaltered frozen/thawed mice).
If we had noticed that the snake listed has any temperament or behavioral issues other than human-friendly, they would have been detailed in Comments above.
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