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Pied-sided Bloodred corn snake photographed outdoors on a mirror. I’ve been photographing snakes on mirrors for years, but whenever I shot them outdoors–showing what was in the reflection beyond the snake–people usually said that it distracted from the photo subject. I shot this one almost a decade ago, intentionally rendering the reflection of trees above the shooting theater.
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Someone recently asked for a belly picture of a Bloodred Tessera. I don’t suggest that all Bloodred Tesseras have a belly pattern like this, but it does seem that in the realm of Tessera, the typical Bloodred belly pattern dominates the often otherwise completely white belly of Tesseras? That said, I believe that Striped Bloodred Tesseras may not fit this model? Relatively uncommon are the black freckles on the belly of this one.
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I’ve shown you examples of this “morph” for several years, but I’m now naming it. CHERRY will be the morph name of these amazingly red corns. Pictured here is: 1) an adult male that hatched in the late 1990s. MORE PICS . . .
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A beautiful 2016 hatchling Black Pine Snake Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi produced by Brad Chambers. Thanks for the amazing Pits, Brad (pun intended). They’re already eating me outta mouse and home. 🙂
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Most Striped Bloodred corns do not have the orderly and contiguous striping seen on this one. The general distinction between the two different striped types is that most of the others have brighter red, in the absence of so much melanin associated with individuals with such black linear striping.
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The parents of this 2014 adult male Amel were both Banded Fluorescent corns, but this one didn’t inherit enough banding–and his ground color zones are too “dirty”–to call him a Fluorescent. I’ll breed him back to a Fluorescent or a Reverse Okeetee next year to see if he has any hidden traits he’ll pass-on to his progeny? I’m hoping to at least send these red markings up his next family tree?
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A beautiful 2014 Anaconda Western Hognose mutant (Heterodon nasicus). The anaconda mutation is incompletely-dominant to wild-type. This Anaconda is a Visual Het because it’s phenotype is not wild-type, but is also not the pattern of homozygote Anaconda Hogs (usually called Supercondas). Don’t take the greenish coloration of this one to mean it is also a color mutant. S
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The parents of this Okeetee are a Scaleless Extreme Okeetee and a Scaled Okeetee. These two snakes (this pic and the one below) that are Heterozygous (Het) for Scaleless have the same parents, but demonstrate both ends of a scale of their color and pattern variation potential.
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Sister of the above female.
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Since it first hatched I’ve been back and forth on the genotype of this Striped Tessera (Charcoal/Pewter/Charcoal/Pewter) but now–after a year of maturity–the absence of Bloodred belly markings forces me to identify this one as a Striped Charcoal Tessera. Even though the grandsire was Pewter (Diffused Masque Charcoal–aka: Charcoal Bloodred), I’m officially finally declaring this one to be Striped Charcoal Tessera.
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Two 2016 hatchling Scaleless Butter corns and one 2016 sibling 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.
