Snake of the Day 09-14-16

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2016 Scaleless corn snakes (one Scaleless Butter and one Scaleless Amel).   

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. 

Snake of the Day 09-16-16

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2016 hatchlings just before their first shed.  Parents of these corns are a Striped Motleycorn het for Hypo Striped Fire Granite and a Striped Bloodred het for Amel and Ghost.  There are three Hypo Striped corns (that MAY also be Bloodreds) in this brood that are virtual clones of each other.   

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One of the three Striped Hypo corns that could also be Bloodreds. 

Snake of the Day 09-03-16

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Most Snow Tessera corns have bright white striping like these, but some of those white stripes tend to be paler at maturity.  Fingers crossed these will stay as bright white as they are now.  These will have fed a few times and will be ready for shipping in less than two weeks.  They will be posted on South Moutnain Reptiles web site at that time.   s

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Same snakes as above plus an Amel Tessera sibling. 

Snake of the Day 09-04-16

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These 2016 hatchling Salmon Snow Motleys are just a week old and will be feeding and ready for shipping in less than two weeks. Not remarkably colored at this age, they will be strongly coral/pink before they are a year old and will continue to saturate in color for most of the remainder of their lives.

Snake of the Day 08-21-16

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As hatchlings, all of our red-modified Amel corns are rather boring in the color department.  This ONE is no exception but it will be something new in the realm of red albino corns (even beyond being a Fluorescent and beyond being a Cherry).  Our male Cherry corn is the father and the mother is the red Fluorescent, both of which we’ve shared pictures of for a couple of years now.  We may only sell two or three of these gems this year, but since there is no model adult for this genetic combination, the only promise we can make is that they will be remarkably red as adults.   PICs of her parents

Snake of the Day 09-05-16

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These Charcoal Terrazzo corns began hatching August 26th.  Here is most of the brood that will be feeding and ready for shipping by mid-September.  Those gold flecks on their bodies are small pieces of vermiculite that we use to maintain humidity as their incubation medium.  As adults, they mature to be pretty much the color you see here with barely discernible darker dorsal-lateral stripes running down most of their backs.  

Snake of the Day 08-22-16

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This female 2015 Baja Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata agalma) is quickly growing and just as quickly changing from red bands to orange.  She and her 2015 mate-to-be are here on breeding loan from Stephen Gagliardo.  Thanks, Stephen, for the opportunity to breed this beautiful species.  

Snake of the Day 08-28-16a

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Grand-damm of this brood that began hatching on August 26th is the famous “white-sided Granite” produced by Richard Hume of Unique Serpents.  I’m not certain how many (if any) of these I’ll be selling since Rich said that w/s Granite latently exhibited the high-white sides.  I may raise them to see which ones I’ll keep and which ones I’ll sell?   s