We should have some 2017 hatchling Banded Charcoal corns this-coming summer. This 8-year-old female shows a little yellow in her neck region, but given that most Anery-types that have the genes to allow retention of carotenoid yellow have much much more yellow by this age. I doubt she will have much more than we now see, but the good news is that she should pass this genetic propensity to her offspring?
This 2016 26″ male Amel Tessera is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed large pinky mice. He is het for Striped Caramel (therefore, het Striped Butter)
Vanishing Striped Ghost
Both Anery and Lavender gene mutations have thus far most remarkably demonstrated the so-called “vanishing stripe” variants of the Striped gene mutation in corn snakes. Other colors of partially-striped pattern mutants in corns have notably more visible striping. Therefore, if you wish to create mostly pattern-less corns, consider using Striped Coral Ghosts to increase your odds for success? This adult female Striped Coral Ghost is a typical example of her mutation compound. I’ve had several Striped Lavenders that were as pattern-less as this one, but most Lavender mutants in the hobby toDAY sadly have the potential of spinal deformations. And if they themselves do not exhibit such spinal kinking, their progeny may? We don’t yet know why Lavenders have a greater propensity for such malformations, so I personally prefer Striped Coral Ghosts for such projects. This, of course, begs the question, “what makes some Striped Ghosts lack so much striped pattern?”. Is it a separate mutation or is it perhaps a synergism between the two/three genotypes, Stripe, Anery, Hypo?
NOTE TO SELF: find lighter background when shooting all-black snakes. This Mexican Black Kingsnake (Lampropeltis nigrita) was produced by Terri Bienkowski. I bred this species back in the 1970s and 1980s, but many of them back then were heavily freckled, and often dark brown instead of black. Today, such non-black MBKs are rare. Even softening the lights for this pic could not hinder the reflection on this PATTON–LEATHER–like serpent.
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This 2016 19″ female Snow Tessera is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed large pinky mice. ?LONGSHOT? potential is that she COULD be a homozygote Tessera since both of her parents were Tesseras? BTW, she is genetically more than meets the eye? She is an Amel Anery Tessera, so if you bred her to a commonly-colored corn that is het for Snow, you could get Commons, Common-colored Tesseras, Amels, Amel Tesseras, Aneries, Anery Tesseras, Snows, Snow Tesseras, and other mutant pattern or color mutations that are hiding in this otherwise typical looking Snow Tessera; all in just one brood? Her $215.00 USD price includes
This 2016 20″ female Amel Tessera is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed large pinky mice. Grandparents of this snake are a stunning red and white High-white Reverse Okeetee x Amel Tessera so she has the potential to make some stunningly red and white babies when bred to a nice Candy Cane or High-white Reverse Okeetee?
This 2016 male Super Salmon Snow corn snake (possessing both of the paired gene copies of the Red Factor mutation) is currently 20″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.
This 2016 female SUPER Salmon Snow corn snake (possessing both of the paired gene copies of the Red Factor mutation) is currently 19″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.
This 2016 male Reverse Okeetee is now 14″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.
Produced by Catherine Turley, this 2016 female Lava Lavender is possibly also RedCoat? She is now 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. She has several spinal kinks ((minor ones on the tail and a severe dorsal kink about mid-body (blue arrow pointing in second pic). I don’t guarantee that those are the only spinal kinks on her.
