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These Sunglow Motleys have not shed their first skins yet, but like all corns, they have several transitional colors in their lives. Therefore, these will transform from this dull orange coloration to red/orange when mature. Barely seen in this picture is the one Striped Motley Sunglow I get each year from the parents of these gems that are obviously het for Stripe.
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Two clutches of Honey and Honey Motley corns have hatched this year. One brood has fed twice so I’ll be posting those soon. As adults, of course, they are much more yellow than these hatchlings now are. s
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The parents of these 2016 newly hatched corns are a Tessera Het Opal and an Opal that never looked like one, so this gray Tessera will probably reveal lavender-ish colors after its first shed. I see at least one Opal Tessera in the small brood and two obvious Opal Tesseras. Two non-Tessera pale ones look like Snows, but may not be. Hence, even though these dark ones look like Aneries or Moonstones, their color after they shed will likely reveal that they are not Anery-type mutants. I’ll keep you posted. Not that I wouldn’t LOVE for these two dark ones to be Moonstones?
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Male 2013 visual-het Leucistic Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna). Most visual-het Graybands demonstrate a Hypo-esque look that is common in snakes that are het for the gene mutation, Leucism. In fact, like the inheritance of most Leucistic serpents, the Leucistic Gray-band is dominant to wild-type (not recessive). Therefore, most F1 out-crossed progeny (hets) have a pale hypomelanistic-type phenotype similar to visual-hets of the other leucistic mutant serpents. Aside from the inherent value of the Leucistic Homozygote (pic 2) pattern-less and color-less Leucistic Alterna, the visual-hets are stand-alone beautiful “morphs”.
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This 2016 male Saffron Motley (Sunkissed Butter Motley) is currently eating frozen/thawed 1-DAY-old pinky mice. His $245.00 USD price includes
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Terrazzo corn snake mutants (originally called Granite Corns) are historically known as the second corn snake gene mutation with a Striped pattern scheme, but NOT allelic to Striped corn snake mutants (if you breed a Terrazzo to a Striped Corn, no striped progeny will result, other gene mutations not-withstanding). See written history of this mutation below: S
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This is possibly the most atypical corn snake found in the vast U.S. range of its species? This BOOT Key Corn is surely why early scientists actually gave the nominate form of these insular corns (found on several of the Florida Keys south of the Florida mainland) a corn snake subspecies classification (formerly Elaphe guttata rosacea). Since then, because of “rafting” from Hurricanes and incidental migration of Key corns to the mainland and vice-versa, mainland corns finding their way to the keys as stow-aways in vehicles AND DNA testing revealing that they’re not distinct from their mainland counterparts, these are now classified as simply Corn Snakes. Whatever you think about what they are called, their natural coloration is so vastly different from corns found in most of their U.S. range that nobody can deny their beauty.
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This 2015 male corn snake is het for Amel and Caramel (therefore, het Butter) and possibly het for Scaleless (parents were Amel het Striped Butter X Caramel het Amel–both het Scaleless). He has eaten frozen/thawed pinky mice four consecutive times without hesitation. His $175.00 USD price includes
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Hours old at the time of this photograph, the first 2016 SMR Cayenne Fire hatched on August 13th looks like a typical Fire (Amel Bloodred), but in a few short months that will change. The orange gives way to bright red and even the white ground zones change to red, often rendering a virtually uni-colored red snake. What distinguishes these from most Fire corns is the possession of a third gene mutation, Red Factor (RF). Corns in this brood will be the only ones to hatch this year from pairing the South African Line male with John Finsterwald’s (https://coloradocorns.com) beautiful SMR Cayenne Fire here on breeding loan. If you don’t buy any from me, you’d better contact John quickly before these run out. Almost all of my half of these is already reserved, so few (if any) will be offered for sale at large on my web site. Of course, like all of our red-modified corns, this one–and all of its siblings–the orange colors seen here will be extremely red at maturity.
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The same snake in the above pic with a few of its siblings.
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This 2014 female Western Hognose Snake (Heterodon nasicus) is currently 20″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. She is possibly het for Amel and she should be ready to breed in Spring, 2017. Her $195.00 USD price includes
