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Snake of the Day 12-30-14

25″ male 2013 Sunkissed Corn Snake produced by Tom and Linda Thompson.  He is currently eating one frozen/thawed fuzzy mouse every five to seven DAYs.  $145.00 includes FREE  OVERNIGHT  SHIPPING   Thanks, Linda and Tom.  

Snake of the Day 12-29-14

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27″ 2013 male Dillute Motley Corn, Het for Anery (therefore, BLUE).  He is currently eating one frozen/thawed fuzzy mouse every five to seven DAYs.   $135.00 USD includes FREE  OVERNIGHT  SHIPPING anywhere in the lower-  

Snake of the Day 12-25-14

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Two 2014 sibling hatchlings with the Red Mask mutation that is dominant to wild-type.  The Coral colored one is a Super Salmon Snow that has both copies of the RM gene mutation, causing him to be very deeply colored.  The Anery has only one copy of the gene mutation so it is a Visual Het that doesn’t exhibit much of the color expression of the gene.  In the case of both, within the next two years they will continue to have heightened expression of the pink/coral color gene.  . . .

Snake of the Day 12-24-14

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28″ 2013 small adult Male Red Mask Anery (aka: Coral Anery) corn snake.  One of his parents was a Salmon Snow Motley so he is het Amel (therefore, het Salmon Snow) and Motley.  $195.00 USD plus FREE SHIPPING anywhere in the lower-  

Snake of the Day 12-23-14

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2014 Male Sunrise Amel Striped Motley Corn Snake. He is already well into his color saturation phase, which will continue to concentrate for the next many years.  In about two years, some of the scales bounding pattern zones will randomly and sparsely begin to depigment to white.  Belly bulge is from eating a large frozen/thawed pinky mouse the DAY before this picture.  His $215.00 price includes to any of the lower-48 United states.   . . .

Snake of the Day 12-22-14

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2013 Visual-Het for Leucistic Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna).  As detailed in previous SOTD and daily SMR FaceBook features, this Grayband demonstrates a Hypo-esque look that is common in snakes that are het for Leucism.  The inheritance of most Leucistic serpents is dominant to wild-type (not recessive) and therefore most F1 out-crossed progeny (hets) have a hypomelanistic phenotype.    S . . .