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Striped Tessera 08-07-17e

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This 30″ male 2015 Striped Tessera corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed hopper mice. His parents were both het for Striped Fire and possibly-het for Ghost, so this male is possibly het for those mutations. His $235.00 USD price includes     Bonus pic . . .  S O L D

Same snake in different pose and lighting. 

Silverleaf Kisatchie 2016

Silverleaf Kisatchie(aka Slowinski’s Ratsnake)
Pantherophis slowinskii
Most Commonly Used Name: Silverleaf Kisatchie Ratsnake
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Single Recessive Mutation
Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground colored iris
 
 
DETAILS:

 

I will be marketing SILVERLEAF mutants of the species, Pantherophis slowinskii for Brad Lichtenhan and Gregg Feaster.  This mutation is recessive to wild-type and still quite rare in the hobby, despite their discovery back in 2006, and subsequent limited market availability from then to now.  The only other mutation of this species was discovered here at South Mountain Reptiles.  It is an Anerythristic-type mutation, monochromatically expressing only melanin.  I call them BLACK KISATCHIES because some people incorrectly infer that the Anerythristic gene mutation from corn snakes was infused into the Kisatchies via inter-species hybridization.  Hence, this Anery-type mutation in Kisatchies is not allelic to Anery corn snakes.  They were once called Dark-eyed Kisatchies, but their eyes are not actually dark, so I continue to use the original name I assigned, Black Kisatchie.  It will be a few years before we can offer any of the Black Kisatchies, but that project is currently in progress. BTW, what is appealing about the Black Kisatchie mutants is that they do not retain or express carotenoid yellow like most corn snake Aneries do. Though it was done by some when they were first discovered, we have NEVER crossed corn snakes with Kisatchies.  Kisatchies HET for the Silverleaf mutation are also available.  

 

Price of available 2016 hatchling Silverleaf Kisatchies:

 

 

 

HOMOZYGOTES (aka: visuals):
males $750.00
females $900.00 (restricting anyone from buying more than one for now)
Pairs $1,500.00

 

No trios unless/until we get more females

 

 

 

HETEROZYGOTES (aka: hets):

 

males $375.00
females $450.00
pairs $750.00

 

 

 

History of the species, Pantherophis slowinskii

The accepted hobby name, Kisatchie, was unofficially assigned to the newest Ratsnake species to be described in the United States, Panterophis slowinskii, reportedly because the “holotype” was collected near Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana.  This doesn’t mean that it was the first of its kind to be captured, because I was catching lots of these in 1971 in East Texas and Western Louisiana, incorrectly thinking that they were a notably brown version of Great Plains Ratsnakes (Pantherophis emoryi).  The common name assigned when this species was described is Slowinski’s Corn Snake, but I personally don’t use that name because is contains the word CORN, and this is officially N O T a corn snake. In 2002, Frank T. Burbrink presented sufficient evidence to establish that this snake, Elaphe slowinskii (now, Pantherophis slowinskii), found between the natural ranges of Corn Snakes, Pantherophis guttatus and Great Plains Rat Snakes (aka: Emory’s Rat Snakes) was sufficiently dissimilar to those species, enough to warrant distinct species status.  Surely this species originated from the ancient natural intergradation of Corn Snakes and Emory’s Rat Snakes?  In order to preserve their genome in captive specimens–s Posted on Categories Morphs

Reverse Okeetee PROJECT

Yellow & Red Reverse Okeetee    PROJECT

This PROJECT corn’s parents were a Butter Motley het Sunkissed X eXtreme Okeetee.  I anticipate that she will have lipstick red markings and an overt yellow ground color?  MALES are out of stock as of September 5, 2017.  We plan to have more again next season.  FEMALES are $125.00 plus flat-rate $35.00 .  Only four of these Project Reverse Okeetees will be sold this year.

 

Important Note:
We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

 

PROJECT Reverse Okeetee 07-31-17

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This 2017 female PROJECT Reverse Okeetee corn snake is approximately 12″ long, eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  This PROJECT corn’s parents were a Butter Motley het Sunkissed X eXtreme Okeetee.  I anticipate that she will have lipstick red markings and an overt yellow ground color at maturity?  Her $155.00 USD price includes     Bonus Pic . . .

Same snake in different pose.

 

Sunkissed 07-30-17

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This 2017 male Sunkissed mutant is currently 12″ long, eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  He is 66.66% possibly-het het for Scaleless.  Image inset offers a different angle of his beautiful head markings.  His $225.00 USD price includes   to any of the lower-48 United States.  11-25-17 UPDATE:  now, 17″ long.  S O L D

male PROJECT

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This 2017 male Anery Tessera is currently 12″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  He is het for Sunkissed and either Ultra OR Amel (see PROJECTdetails below).  His $275.00 USD price includes    

 

Sunkissed Ultra/Ultramel Anery Tessera    PROJECT

All hatchlings from the following adults are, of course, Anery mutants since that was the only gene mutation common to both parents.  Father is a Sunkissed Anery and Mother is an Ultramel Anery Tessera so the double-mutant Anery Tessera progeny of this pairing are het for Sunkissed and either Ultra OR AMEL.  I italicized OR AMEL because IF the mother of this year’s progeny is an Ultra Anery all of the babies from this pairing will be het for Ultra and Sunkissed.  If–as labeled on her cage–the mother (pic’d below) is an Ultramel Anery Tessera, half of the progeny will inherit one copy of Amel and the other half will inherit one copy of Ultra, BUT there is no way to distinguish between them.  

Males are $275.00 

FATHER of the 2017 Anery mutants being offered:

 

MOTHER of the 2017 Anery mutants being offered:

Sunkissed ANERY Tessera PROJECT

Sunkissed Ultra/Ultramel Anery Tessera    PROJECT

All hatchlings from the following adults are, of course, Anery mutants since that was the only gene mutation common to both parents.  Father is a Sunkissed Anery and Mother is an Ultramel Anery Tessera so the double-mutant Anery Tessera progeny of this pairing are het for Sunkissed and either Ultra OR AMEL.  I italicized OR AMEL because IF the mother of this year’s progeny is an Ultra Anery all of the babies from this pairing will be het for Ultra and Sunkissed.  If–as labeled on her cage–the mother (pic’d below) is an Ultramel Anery Tessera, half of the progeny will inherit one copy of Amel and the other half will inherit one copy of Ultra, BUT there is no way to distinguish between them.  

Males are $245.00 plus flat-rate $39.00 overnight FedEx shipping and Females are out of stock for the season overnight FedEx shipping.  Only four of these Sunkissed Anery Project will be sold this year. 

FATHER of the 2017 Anery mutants being offered:

 

MOTHER of the 2017 Anery mutants being offered:

Important Note: 

The advertised image of these Anery hatchlings represent the average neonatal phenotype of this morph project.  Such images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered.  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.