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21″ female 2014 Butter Tessera Corn Snake.  She is currently eating one frozen/thawed large pinky mouse every five to seven DAYs.  $395.00 includes FREE SHIPPING  

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This 2012 Adult male Sulphur (Butter Bloodred) corn snake is now 41″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.   He is currently in brumation, scheduled to emerge in February, 2015.  His $285.00 includes FREE  OVERNIGHT  SHIPPING  

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This 2012 female corn is the product of crossing a Java corn with a Kastanie mutant.  She is now 36″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice.  Her $195.00 USD price includes     

The single recessive Kastanie mutation was discovered by Frank Schaub in Germany many years ago, but the Java corn is still–shall we say–undiscovered.  It was named by a breeder in South Africa as a morph that had a distinct phenotype common to all examples of this line, but it’s inheritance is still unclear. Breeding trials are on-going, and we soon hope to identify how the “look” is inherited. IS IT a rendering of gene interactions (polygenetics) or a gene mutation? IF a gene mutation, is it Kastanie?  Both morphs (Kastanie and Java) are in a small fraternity of corns with phenotypes that are similar to wild-type.  Not that Kastanies cannot be easily seen in a crowd of common corns, but because they’re not a pattern mutation or an obvious and distinct color mutation like Motleys, Amels or Aneries, breeding them to other corns (especially wild-types like Okeetee, Miami phase, etc.) can result in progeny that can be somewhat mimics of wild-types.  

This pairing in 2012 was done in an effort to help discover if perhaps Javas are actually Kastanie mutants.  The jury is still out on this because this female (and virtually all of her siblings) has some strong Kastanie features, but more importantly she is NOT wild-type in appearance. Breeding a mutation like Kastanie to a non-Kastanie SHOULD render babies that are very similar to wild corns, but as you can see, this one is anything but that.  It has the classic Kastanie feature of the orderly and more geometric Kastanie saddle markings that are often shorter than wild-types from saddle front to back.  If Javas owe their “morph” features to an alien species (like perhaps Emory’s Rat Snakes Pantherophis emoryi) colors and patterns like we see in this F1 out-cross are possible when bred to gene mutants, VS. seeing the wild-type appearance.  More breeding trials are obviously indicated. 

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2014 male Scaleless Anery Corn Snake.  The Scaleless gene mutation was first discovered in France from the pairing of a Corn to an Emory’s Ratsnake, so all Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY are inter-species hybrids.  This male is approximately 15″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $995.00 price includes       

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Scaleless corns are not as fragile as they may appear.  Yes, in the absence of the usual serpent armor (scales) they could sustain considerable injury if they tackled a live mouse with teeth, but that is perhaps where the fragility risk ends?  Their shed skin is predominantly devoid of scales, but since virtually all “scaleless” corns have SOME scales, on an otherwise smooth sloughed skin you’ll see the occasional scale above the ventral keel.  Also, a very rare Scaleless corn would be one withOUT belly scales, so expect to see an almost completely scaled belly.  Handy, huh?  If a tyical fully-scaled corn has a difficulty factor of shedding, it would be perhaps a one on the 1-10 scale for successful shedding.  I’d place Scaleless corns at perhaps two on that same scale.  In other words, without offering damp moss hides for my Scaleless corns, I expect only 5 of every 100 sloughed skins to be partially removed (this statistic cites MY experience with them, so results may vary, depending on genetics and cage conditions).  We typically do nothing to increase ambient cage humidity for our Scaleless corns.  Naturally, we never feed them live prey, and we brumate them with all of our fully-scaled snakes.  Therefore, maintaining Scaleless corns is essentially no different than for any other colubrids in captivity.  If I lived where ambient humidity were low, I MIGHT offer damp moss hides to Scaleless corns during their sloughing cycles, but only for those that demonstrate partial or latent sheds.    

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This 2012 male corn is the product of crossing a Java corn with a Kastanie mutant.  He is now 39″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice.  His $175.00 USD price includes  

 

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2014female Sunglow Motley (same snake shown in two different views).  She’s roughly 16″ long” long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $95.00 USD plus $35.00 flat-rate SMR .   

 

Same 2014 hatchling female pictured with a 2014 Extreme Okeetee for color comparison.

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This 2013 male Striped Tessera corn snake is now 29″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.  His $245.00 USD price includes  

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44″ male Striped Caramel Corn Snake.  His $185.00 price includes to any of the lower-48 United states.  

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2013 male Red mask Anery corn snake for sale.  He is currently 38″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice.  His $175.00 usd price includes overnight delivery  

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42″ female Motley Corn Snake. She is three years old, eating frozen/thawed adult mice. Her $175.00 price includes to any of the lower-48 United states.