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Snow Motley 2016

Snow Motley (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Snow Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Type: Triple mutation compound (Motley + Amel + Anery)
Eye Color:  RED pupil

Combining the three recessive gene mutations; Motley and (Anery & Amel = Snow) combine to render this beautiful Snow compound mutation. Typically, they have many subtle colors found throughout the spectrum of the Snow compound mutation.

What to expect:
Both male and female hatchlings look alike (essentially white snakes with some tainted shade of what Motley markings).  

 

Important Note: 
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  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.

Snow Motley 2015

Snow Motley (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Snow Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Type: Triple mutation compound (Motley + Amel + Anery)
Eye Color:  RED pupil

Combining the three recessive gene mutations; Motley and (Anery & Amel = Snow) combine to render this beautiful Snow compound mutation. Typically, they have many subtle colors found throughout the spectrum of the Snow compound mutation.

What to expect:
Both male and female hatchlings look alike (essentially white snakes with some tainted shade of what Motley markings).  

 

Important Note: 
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  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.

Female Tessera 12-08-16

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This 21″ female 2015 Tessera Corn is het for RedCoat Lava and is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  Her $215.00 price includes     

Scaleless Butter 12-10-16d

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This 2016 female Scaleless Butter corn is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Breeding this snake to a common-colored corn that is Scaleless and het for Butter (Amel and Caramel) will yield Scaleless corns in the colors of Common, Amel, Caramel, and Butter.   Her $1,400.00 usd price includes   

 

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) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids.

Silverleaf Kisatchie 11-20-16

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Now 14″ long, this male 2016 Kisatchie (aka: Slowinski’s Corn Snake), Pantherophis slowinskii, is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. His $750.00 usd price includes    

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 Black-eyed Kisatchies, but their eyes are not black, 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 NOT a corn snake.  In 2002, Frank T. Burbrink presented sufficient evidence to establish that this snake, Elaphe slowinskii (now,  Posted on Categories Old Shop