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This 2018 female Fluorescent Corn Snake is 19″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.   Her $155.00 USD price includes    

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Not the best high-WHITE Reverse Okeetee we’ve produced because the parents of this one were both Miami Okeetees, het for Amel. I love the banding and the red (white ground zones are not very white), so we’ll use this snake in a few years to improve the red in one of our lines, and also to promote banded saddles. BONUS  PIC . . .

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Two 2018 Candy Cane Tesseras, but one is, of course, not the red we all expect. Both will be interesting adults, but the one on the left will promote the best reds and whites in future generations.

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Framed insets demonstrate that not all Scaleless corns are scale-less. In fact, very few have no scales above the ventral keel (junction of belly and sides), but virtually all Scaleless corn mutants have most of their belly scales, in one or more size/shape forms. This one has a lot of scales above the keel, compared to most of these mutants in the hobby toDAY, but as you can see they are very irregularly shaped and seemingly zone specific, with regard to basic shapes and sizes? Of what corn mutant do these pictures remind you?

note:  ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including SCALED corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation–aka Het Scaleless) are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake).  Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled siblings) are inter-species hybrids.  

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I was off by a week when I predicted last month that this Trans-pecos Ratsnake (Bogertophis subocularis) would lay her eggs before the end of August. She began laying on September 5th.

 

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This male 2018 male Mandarin (Amel Kastanie) is now 14″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $175.00 price includes     S O L D

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This male 2018 male Mandarin (Amel Kastanie) Motley is now 14″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $195.00 price includes     S O L D

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I should know better than to report the early findings you’ll see in this article, but I’ll do so with the disclaimer that more trials are necessary before drawing any genetic conclusions. The parents of these two 2018 hatchlings are a Specter male and a Snow female. Genetically, pairing an Anery mutant to a Snow mutant (which is, of course, an Amel Anery) should render progeny that ALL demonstrate at least Anery, since both parents were Anery? Four common corns were in this brood, and the rest were all Anery types. I thought that perhaps some sperm from last year may have fertilized some of the eggs this year, but the Snow parent was bred to an Anery type last year, rendering all Anery mutants. SO, I won’t impulsively proclaim that something’s amiss here (genetically speaking) but perhaps we’ll learn more next year?

 

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Here’s one of the babies from the pairing of a Cherry Amel Tessera X eXtreme Reverse Okeetee back in March (featured SOTD 03-26-18). Like their non-Tessera counterparts, Cherry Amels have very little red when they first hatch, but quickly render more and more of it, beginning only weeks into their lives. BONUS  PIC . . .

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The line of Hurricane Anery Motleys from which this snake derives often exhibit squareISH dorsal markings. Square ANYthing on corn snakes is rare. He is 14″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. His $155.00 price includes    S O L D