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Fire 08-09-14

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34″ 2013 adult female Fire (Amel Bloodred) corn snake.  That white “blaze”on her head is not a scar.  She hatched with that color-less patch on her head.  Her $295.00 price includes over night shipping

ButterTessera 0730A

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This 2013 female Butter Tessera is now 27″ long eating frozen/thawed large fuzzy or small hopper mice every five to seven DAYs.  Her $550.00 usd price includes  

Deserving of her price, she offers great 2015 breeding potential.  If bred to any Butter, approximately 50% of the babies will be some pattern variant of Butter Tesseras and the other 50% will be Butters of one variation or another (since her grandfather was a Striped Butter).  Breeding her to a Common corn that is het for Striped Butter will render some Butters, Butter Tesseras, Amels, Amel Tesseras, Caramels, Caramel Tesseras, Tesseras, and who knows what else (since so many corns toDAY have surprise genes)? That’s four different colors of Tesseras.  If you hatch enough eggs, you could get all four colors and possibly different patterns in the same brood, but proportions are not very predictable unless you hatch many eggs from her.  

Same snake in different pose.  

Charcoal 2014

Charcoal (aka: anery B, Pine Island Anery)
Most Commonly Used Name: Charcoal
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Single Recessive Mutation

Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground colored iris

 

The second anerythristic-type mutation discovered in corn snakes (Anery A was the first), Charcoal corns were originally named Pine Island Aneries for the origin of the first one to be discovered on Pine Island – off the Florida Coast.  Originally mis-perceived to be a variant of the Anery A mutation, the first one was bred to a Snow corn in a presumed effort to discern if the mutation was related to Anery A?  Subsequent generational results demonstrated that this was not an allele of the first anerythristic-type corn; Anery A.  There, if you breed a single-mutant Anery to a single-mutant Charcoal, you will get all wild-type progeny (presuming there were no other gene mutation copies common to both parents. 

Many of the original Charcoal corns lacked facial and lateral yellow.  Yellow was not common in the first generations of this morph, since early specimens apparently lacked the dietary carotenoid yellow trait/mutation common in most Anery corns.  Even toDAY, some Charcoal and Blizzard (Amel Charcoal) corns are devoid of yellow as adults, but in so much as that original specimen was quickly bred to a Snow corn upon discovery, the carotenoid retention gene(s) is annoyingly persistent in most family lines of Charcoals and Blizzards.  Breeding trials to identify the mechanics and inheritance of the carotenoid retention gene(s) are on-going.

 

What to expect:
Possibly one of the most unchanging of all corns in the realm of appearance from hatchling to adult, neonates have an overall gray or bluish appearance.  Neonates often have a blush of pink or lavender around the sides of the face and neck, and some of those carry that color to adulthood.  Whether the one you get will mature to have yellow (or won’t), never expect to see yellow on neonates.  One obvious distinction between Anery and Charcoal corns (neonate or adult) is in the realm of eye color.  In Anery corns, there is an obvious contrast between the iris and pupil of the eyes (usually black pupil surrounded by gray or silver iris).  Most Charcoal corns show little or no such contrast, having the same jet black pupils of Anery corns, but a much darker and sometimes equally black iris.  Throughout maturity, the eyes of both Anerys and Charcoals may change slightly, but and adults the distinction between hatchlings remains the same.  Most of my corn snakes that are genetically both Anery and Charcoal are phenotypically Charcoal.  I’ve spoken to other breeders that say some of their double mutants more closely resembled Anery types.
 

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.

 

Sunkissed Kastanie 0805A

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2014 Male Sunkissed Kastanie corn snake.  His $250.00 USD price includes      . . . 

Same snake in different pose and light. 

 

Anery 0728A

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This 26″ 2013 male Anery Corn Snake is currently eating one frozen/thawed fuzzy mouse per week.  His parents were both het for Kastanie and Snow so he is possibly het for all that.    His $95.00 USD price includes  

Bloodred Tessera 0727A

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This 27″ 2013 male Bloodred Tessera is currently eating one frozen/thawed hopper mouse per week.  He has a really contiguous dorsal stripe compared to most Bloodred Tesseras, but less black than most.   His $375.00 USD price includes  

Saffron Motley 0726A

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This 27″ 2013 Saffron (Sunkissed Butter) Motley female is currently eating one frozen/thawed fuzzy mouse per week.  She recently rubbed her rostrum trying to get out of her cage, but such “boo boos” heal quickly.  In two more sheds, the sore that’s visible in this picture will be scarred over, and fortunately, scars on Butter corn snakes are white.  Her $250.00 USD price includes