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Hurricane Anery Motley-14

Hurricane Anery Motley (no aka)

Most Commonly Used Name: Hurricane Anery Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive Plus polygenetic pattern trait, Hurricane
Morph Type: Compound (Anery & Motley plus Hurricane pattern variation)

Eye Color: Black pupil

This compound morph results from combining the color mutation Anery with the pattern mutation Motley but also with a twist.  Through selective-breeding, the hurricane pattern trait changes an otherwise ordinary Anery Motley into a Motley with noticeable and thick margins around the dorsal circles of the Motley pattern.  Colors can range from dull gray to silver with black to jet black markings.  The nearly perfect Motley circles on the back can run down the back from the neck to the half-way point, but in rare specimens they run nearly to the tail.  The name “Hurricane” tags this Motley variant because the concentric borders of the dorsal circles of the pattern (where ground color insets the high degree of darker pattern) resemble the meteorological sign for hurricane storms.  The hurricane markings are not the result of a gene mutation, but from selective breeding that promotes the concentric and thick borders of the dorsal circles between pattern zones.  Adults are generally more colorful than hatchlings, but relative to the transformation of most corns from hatchling to adult, any Anery Motley will change very little throughout maturity.  One of the genetic functions of Motley is to reduce or eliminate melanin pattern zones of black, making classic Anery Motleys show NO black circle boundaries, but Hurricane pattern variants seem to ignore this genetic trait of the classic Motley.

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This image demonstrates the distinctino between a classic Anery Motley and a Hurricane Anery Motley variant.  In some specimens, it appears as though all the pattern zones of an Anery Motley (darkest color) are reduced to a concentric black border of the circles of ground color on the dorsum.  

 
What to expect:
Anery Motleys (classic or Hurricane variants) are one of the rare exceptions among corns in so much as their appearance from neonate to adult changes very little. Expect mostly gray snakes with dark pattern margins that change very little in color intensity from hatchling to adult.  Some have only a few of the classic Motley dorsal circles (often resembling a chain configuration) while some sport a long and contiguous “chain” pattern nearly all the way to the tail. Never expect to see such dorsal circles ON the tail itself.  Patterns are often less distinct and colors are sometimes slighted softened in Motley mutants – compared to non-Motleys. 

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.

 

 

 

 

Reverse Okeetee

Reverse Okeetee (aka: Amel Okeetee, Albino Okeetee)
Most Commonly Used Name: Reverse Okeetee
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variation
Morph Type: Selective variant of single recessive mutation
Eye Color:  Red pupils

 

 

Reverse Okeetees are variants of the basic Amel Mutation, so their only visual distinction from corns is their polygenetic color and pattern scheme.  Genetically speaking, Reverse Okeetees are Amel corns that have been selectively bred to promote their target look (Highly saturated blotch colors, separated from clean and unspeckled ground coloration by prominent white blotch margins). Red or orange markings are not difficult to reproduce through generational line breeding, but the quality and size of the white blotch margins is often difficult to achieve, and sometimes difficult to maintain through subsequent generations.  The degree of color purity in the orange background and red (or orange) markings have been enhanced via polygenetic traits, modified through selective promotion of only the best target phenotypes. Some will exhibit color “clutter” in these zones, but a distinction between Reverse Okeetees and most Amel corns should be a dramatic reduction in color “noise” — rendering richer colors of blotch and ground color zones. 

 

 

What to expect:

Reverse Okeetees are one of the few corn snake mutations that change very little between neonate and adult, so expect some deeper color saturation throughout maturity.  The often “neutrally colored” blotch margins turn bright white throughout maturity.  I don’t recall ever seeing one that was completely devoid of color litter in the pattern and ground zones, but we’re getting closer to that  with  each generation. Some of the hatchlings displaying orange markings mature to have redder markings, and some of those starting with red markings change to orange, but approximately 75% of all our red ones stay red, and about the same percentage of the orange marked ones stay orange.
 
 

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.

 

 

Scaleless Caramel 08-09-15b

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2015 male Scaleless Corn.  He has never refused an unaltered frozen/thawed pinky mouse.  His $950.00 price includes     

Same snake in different pose.

 

 

Anery Strawberry 06-14-15b

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This 2010 female Strawberry Anery Corn Snake is currently 53″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.  Her $325.00 price includes     

Ultramel Motley 06-15-15b

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This 2010 female Ultramel Motley Corn Snake is currently 44″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.  Her $295.00 price includes     

Corn 06-21-15b

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This 2010 female Corn Snake is currently 45″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.  Acquired from my dear friends John and Bridgett Bernardi in El Paso, this female COULD be a Buf mutant.  When he sent me some of these as hatchlings years ago, he said he could not identify their respective mutation, but felt very strongly that they were dominant to wild type (as revealed by phenotypic evaluation of Punnett Squares).  I bred her a few years ago to an Okeetee and believe that I could distinguish between ones looking like Buf mutants and their Okeetee siblings.  I’m not certain enough to make that claim, so I’m selling her for the price of a good-looking common corn of prime breeding age.  Her $185.00 price includes     

TE 06-22-15b

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This 2011 female Tessera Corn Snake is currently 42″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.  She is possibly het Striped Ghost, since she is the progeny of a Tessera Het Striped Ghost and a Tessera.   Her $325.00 price includes