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Snake of the Day 02-18-19

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Thanks, Kevin Saunders, for this beautifully dark Scaleless corn snake.  At first, I thought I had a Scaleless Texas Ratsnake–because of the large lateral spots and the general coloration–but belly markings are spot-on for corns.  I only know one person who got progeny from the pairing of a het Scaleless Texas Ratsnake to a Scaleless corn snake.  They did not get any Scaleless progeny, but obviously, more trials are necessary before saying that their Scaleless genes are not allelic (not located on the same DNA locus–therefore, not compatible)?  When I breed this snake to a Scaleless corn, I’ll quickly share the results. BTW, this one is possibly het for Amel, Hypo and Sunkissed. 

 

Snake of the Day 02-17-19

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Monochromatic corn snake lovers should have one/some of these Charcoal Terrazzos in their breeding inventory.  Not only because they are exemplary in their degree of color-less expression, but because all of our Charcoal and Lava Terrazzos derive directly from the original Craig Boyd line of this pattern mutant.  Compared to other lines of Terrazzos, Boyd Line Terrazzos show much less striped pattern.  We should have babies for sale later this summer. For those who are less familiar with the genetics of Terrazzos, while this snake is similar to a Striped/Vanishing Striped mutant, if you bred this snake to a Striped–or Vanishing Striped–mutant, none of their progeny would be Terrazzo OR Striped, unless they shared at least one copy of the genes of their partner.  In corn snakes Terrazzo is not ALLELIC to Stripe.