Category: SOTD

Snake of the Day 08-26-16a

SOTD  FLASHBACK

First, I hope you’re on a coffee break when you open this SMR article because it’s a long one.  Some of you are already aware that there are over 1,000 such informative articles on our web site (www.corn snake.NET) but they are listed chronologically when you click the tab on the home page, Snake Of The Day.  If ever our web site is considered a popular resource for corn snake research I’ll perform the daunting task of classifying them by subject.  One way to gain access to specific subjects is to type a key word or phrase (like STRIPED BUTTER TESSERA) into the search field near the upper right-hand corner of our web site.  It will result in the listing of all SMR articles containing the respective search words you entered, just as you would see in the results of an Internet search on your browser.  Since there has been considerable chatter on the Internet lately regarding the distinction between Tessera and Striped Tessera, and Motley Tessera, you may find some of the information in this old SMR article from August 5, 2013 to be helpful?  

Snake of the Day 09-07-16

Show & Tell

Last week I showed you a different Granite (Diffused Anery) that is similar to this one. This one hatched in a clutch of eggs from a different adult female multi-het from Rich Hume’s “white-sided” stock. We have not proven that they are white-sided (VS, heavily pied-sided) but that genetic reality is promising. I got only one of these from the first female’s clutch of eggs last week and only one from the second female’s clutch a week later. Again, that is not proof that this is an allele that’s different from the p/s Granites. The white sides of this one extend to the very tip of the tail, just like white-sided mutants in other species. Fingers crossed this will be a new gene mutation in the corn snake’s genetic tool box?

Snake of the Day 08-23-16b

Show & Tell

These eggs began hatching the DAY after I left for the NRBE in Daytona Beach earlier this week.  I came home this evening to see these Scaleless Corns slithering around, just begging to be photographed.  Readily identifiable are Caramel and Common-colored Scaleless corns.  After they have fed a few times they will be featured for sale on this web site and on the South Mountain Reptiles FaceBook page.   s

Snake of the Day 08-27-16

Show & Tell

This Cayenne Fire is the result of pairing two Cayenne Fires produced by John Finsterwald of Colorado Corns whose parents were from a Cayenne Fire bred to a Whiteout (Blizzard Bloodred).  I will know in a few months if it’s actually a pied-sided Fire, but I’ve seen this look in many Fires and Bloodreds that did not indicate they were P/S mutants.  Thanks, John, for the awesome project.  No, this one will not be this color for very long.  It will get redder every weeek, until it will finally be almost completely red as an adult.    

Snake of the Day 09-06-16bbbb

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. After each is replaced, the previous S.O.T.D. will be archived on our web site, accessed by clicking on the Snake of the Day tab near the top of the home page.  The animals pictured here are not always for sale, unless otherwise noted with the heading, Show & $ell, but you can find snakes we are selling via the Snakes For Sale tab at the top of this web site home page.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

Show & Tell

These 2016 Charcoal Terrazzos (and their siblings not shown in this pic) began hatching on August 24th.  After they have shed, and fed two to three times consecutively, they will be offered for sale on our web site.  

Snake of the Day 08-29-16

Show & Tell

This male Gray-banded kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) is called a Light Phase for it’s brighly colored banding and ground zones.  He was captured as a juvenile in 2004 by my brother.  Like all Gray-bands, his colors have continued to saturate with age, but soon he will slowly develop a pale orange “blush” of color over most of the gray zones, common in aged members of this species.  I currently have a 23-year-old male with such elderly colors.