Author: admin

Snake of the Day 10-18-18

Show & $ell 

{product id=2027}

This 2017 female 28″ Reverse Okeetee corn is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  Her father is a Butter Motley, so she is het for Caramel and Motley.  $145.00 plus $39.00  

Snake of the Day 10-14-18

Show & Tell

 

No, not bi-cephalic (NOT 2-headed).  Just a double-occupancy egg shell with two sibling Reverse Okeetees.  Yes, there’s nothing altered about their head markings, but the albumin (egg white) in the egg acts as a magnifier, making their colors POP.  Both were very beautiful after their post-emergence sheds, but colors were not quite as vibrant as they appear in this pic, while covered with clear and viscous albumin.

Snake of the Day 10-12-18

Show & $ell 

{product id=2015}

If you have a male Specter this 17″ FEMALE 2018 Anery Tessera corn snake is quite the opportunity to make Tessera Specters.  She is currently eating frozen/thawed medium pinky mice.   Her parents are a Specter and a Striped Anery Tessera with NO hets. Anyone who questions the inheritance of most red-modifying mutations (except for RedCoat) in corn snakes could not explain the faint pink cast to her dorsal striping.  Her mother (Striped Tessera) is a third generation Tessera and has never had any red-modifiers in her family tree, so the blush of pink toDAY’s SOTD demonstrates (which will intensify in color through maturity) was inherited by whichever red-modifier is in his Specter father.  $400.00 plus $39.00  

Snake of the Day 10-11-18

Show & Tell

 

The only MicroScale Butter corn snake we hatched this year isn’t changing colors too much yet.  In another few months yellows will deepen and the faded orange markings will soften to yellow.  As an adult, this one will be two shades of yellow, like virtually all Butter corn snake mutants.  After closer examination of this one, I’m leaning now toward my original theory that the colors and contrast are more pronounced than those of typically scaled corns, perhaps because there are more scales.  Not unlike the dot pitch of your computer or device monitor rendering crisper resolution with more pixels per inch, it seems that Micro Scale (formerly called Micro Pave) mutants owe their higher contrast to more scales per inch?  I really need to actually count them, right?   I’m looking forward to breeding this scale mutation into other colors and patterns of corn snakes.