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This 2012 male corn is the product of crossing a Java corn with a Kastanie mutant.  He is now 39″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice.  His $175.00 USD price includes  

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2013 female Extreme Okeetee Tessera corn snake.  She is 31″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.  She is not het for Caramel that I’m aware, since her parents are an Extreme Okeetee from pure lines and one of the original female Tesseras (SMR id#1080).   Her $335.00 usd price includes  

Her price is relatively high for her perceived heritage for the simple reason that Drew Lambeth’s famous Tessera that was not supposed to possess the Sunkissed mutation reproduced many Sunkissed and Sunkissed Tessera mutants.  His Tessera, het for Sunkissed was from the same mother as this snake.  What’s significant about that is the fact that the original Tessera did NOT possess the Sunkissed mutation, so the F2 from wild stock Okeetee that parented Drew’s Tessera must have gained the Sunkissed mutation from its wild-caught parent.  That teases that the Sunkissed mutation in this line may be free of the Star-Gazing mutation.  The color of this one is not uncommon among some corns that have only one copy of the Sunkissed gene mutation.  Therefore, this one may be het for the same Sunkissed gene family Drew was fortunate enough to acquire. 

Extreme Tessera 2016

Extreme Okeetee Tessera (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Extreme Tessera Okeetee
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Dominant
Morph Type: Single Dominant Mutation
Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground colored iris
 

Extreme Okeetee Tesseras are just what the name implies; typically patterned Tesseras, but with much more black than most.   

History of the Tessera Mutation:
In 2007, Graham Criglow asked KJ Lodrigue to order a 1.2 trio of Striped Motleys that were advertised on one of the popular Online Classified sites – since Graham’s job prevented him from personally receiving them at that time.  When they arrived, KJ discovered that they constituted a 2.1 reverse trio (two males and one female) instead of the advertised 1.2 trio (one male and two females).  KJ and Kasi recommended that Graham gift the extra male to me, and that’s what Graham did.  Profound thanks to Graham, KJ, and Kasi for that gracious and fortuitous gift.  In 2008, both the Lodrigues and I independently bred our males (Graham’s and mine) to novel (unrelated) corns. I produced about 24 TESSERAS (so named by the Lodrigues for the tessellated lateral markings) from over 50 fertile eggs, but since the Lodrigues were in the middle of a career move to another State, they were less fortunate, producing just four non-mutant Okeetee-looking corns.  My Tesseras were produced by the pairing of the male Tessera to three novel female corns (two F1 Locality Okeetees from Chip Bridges Rhett Butler Line and one Okeetee-ish female, Het for Stripe and Amel).  Imagine my surprise in seeing what we thought were nearly flawless Striped Motleys from three different females, only one of which was Het for a recessive pattern mutation?  After the first brood of 50% Tesseras hatched from the female that was het for Stripe and Amel, except for the perfection of pattern, I was not thinking new dominantmutation, but when both wild-type Okeetees produced the same results, it was obvious that a new mutation was discovered.

Upon receiving the reverse trio from the seller, we all commented on the mutual peculiarity of the phenotypes.  Most appeared to be the most perfectly Striped Motleys ever seen – in so much as their dorsal stripes were nearly contiguous from neck to tail tip (something never before seen in any corn snake pattern mutant) – but that was hardly possible if the admission of the breeder were true – that they were products of pairing a Striped corn with an Okeetee corn.  How could these descendants of a Striped corn bred to an Okeetee be Motley types, instead of Striped?  It is still unclear if those 2.1 Tesseras were F1s (first familial generation) or F2s (the originator of this line is now out of the hobby and difficult to reach – for clarification).  If these three Tesseras are F1s, my deduction is that the striped corn he used in the original pairing was actually Striped AND Tessera.  Even if those three were F2s, the likelihood of the mutant patriarch being a Striped Tessera is strong.

What to expect:
So far, the only trait(s) that are atypical for a corn snake mutation is that many of the non-mutant siblings of Tessera types seem to have enhanced pattern and color features.  
 
Important Note: 

  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.