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This 2016 female eXtreme Reverse Okeetee Tessera is 20″ long and eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice. She is technically an eXtreme example of her morph, not only because she has more white than most Amel Tesseras, but also because one of her parents was an Extreme Reverse okeetee (see pic 2). Her $295.00 price includes Bonus Pic
Parent of toDAY’s S.O.T.D.
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This 29″ male 2016 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice. His parents were a Tessera bred to a Sunkissed Scaleless so he is het for Sunkissed Scaleless. His $325.00 price includes Replaced with 09-09-17
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This 2016 male eXtreme Tessera (het for Amel) will have more black as adult than most Tesseras in the hobby toDAY. He is 23″ long and eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice. His $265.00 price includes
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This 21″ female 2016 Corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice. Her parents were a Tessera bred to a Sunkissed Scaleless so she is het for Anery Sunkissed Scaleless. Her $345.00 price includes
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This 18″ male 2016 Amel Buf Okeetee Corn snake (produced by Catherine Turley) is currently eating frozen/thawed small or medium pinky mice. He is het for Motley or Stripe (maybe both) and 50% pos-het (possibly het) for Hypo. His $275.00 price includes SOLD
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This 28″ female 2016 Lava Het Caramel, possibly-het Amel corn produced by my good friend, David Partington. Her $245.00 price includes S O L D
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This 20″ male 2016 RedCoat Lavender corn snake was produced by Catherine Turley. He is 50% pos-het for Anery, and one of his perents had Strawberry in its family tree. Yes, you see a “zaggy” kinked tail, but it’s relegated to the part of the tail that would not hinder reproduction. Via sight and palpation I could not feel any other kinks or deformities in the spine, but I stop short of guaranteeing there aren’t any. His $335.00 price includes
I know that some of you out there are thinking, “why would someone advertise a lavender with spinal kinking, given that it’s a very common deformity in Lavender mutants, that is surely genetically inherited from one or both parents?”. You may be surprised to hear/read that many of my customers buy snakes that they say they will never breed. Many have told me that they didn’t care if a respective corn snake was male or female since they never planned to breed them. Even if someone would acquire this snake with the intent of breeding him, they should consider that one copy of each parents common genes is passed to ALL of their progeny. Since we don’t know how the kinks are inherited from Lavenders, there’s a chance that it’s a gene mutation. Another potential is that it could be a mutation that is recessive to wild-type. Such recessive gene mutations are not, therefore, given to all of the progeny, so there’s a good chance that breeding a kinked corn snake to one that’s not kinked–or related–could result in some of the babies not being deformed and not carrying a copy of the potential mutated gene? Catherine obviously intentionally bred the parents of this snake for the goal of mixing Strawberry and Red Coat (both red-modifiers) to Lavender. If this snake stays here, I intend to raise and breed him to see if he will eventually yield progeny that are free of spinal deformities? Hence, the “hope you don’t buy this” price. Not a single SMR Lavender breeder has any kinks, but we hatch a few of them each year. If we keep and breed this snake, his progeny will be advertised with the disclaimer that they had some kinked siblings IF INDEED THAT TURNS OUT TO BE THE CASE?? Our goal is to contribute to breeding trials in the hobby specifically geared toward reducing or eliminating spinal kinking in the collective Lavender captive population, but in that process we will surely sprinkle a few other mutations into the genetic salad.
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This 21″ male 2016 Striped corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice and he’s het for Butter (Amel and Caramel) since his parents were a Striped corn bred to a Striped Butter. His $95.00 price includes
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This 19″ female 2016 Striped corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice and she’s het for Anery since her parents were a Striped corn bred to a Striped Anery Tessera. Her $125.00 price includes
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This 17″ female 2016 Amel Tessera corn snake is het for Lavender, and is currently eating frozen/thawed small or medium pinky mice. Her $315.00 price includes BTW, the mother of this snake is David Partington’s famous Paradox Ultramel Lavender, and so far, not one of the Lavenders from that female has been kinked.
