Category: SOTD

Snake of the Day 07-31-16

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Another 2015 (now yearling) Scaleless corn snake.  This one demonstrates a perceived exaggeration of their eye size, due to the lack of facial scales that are built up around the eyes of scaled snakes.  If this snake were not a scale-less mutant, her eyes would be the same size proportion as any of her scaled counterparts. 

note:  ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including scaled corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation) 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 06-16-16

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Juvenile orange Candy Cane Corn Snake.  This one exhibits rare orange and white saturation of color zones.  The only thing currently more difficult to control/perfect via selective breeding in Amel corns than altering orange markings to red is changing the ground zones to white.  Most Amel corns have dark red or orange markings with dirty white or orange ground body zones.  Sadly, I no longer have this snake and don’t make Candy Canes anymore. 

Snake of the Day 07-01-16

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Though this Pied-Sided Bloodred Tessera shows little lateral white, breeding him to a p/s Bloodred with more lateral white should render Tesseras with more white on their sides.  The parent stock of this snake did not have good red coloration like most Bloodreds in the hobby toDAY, so subsequent generations of this snake should also be more red.  

Snake of the Day 07-02-16

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Sub-adult High-white Reverse Okeetee corn snake. The markings on this one are more orange than the typical red on most of these, but when bred to higher-red individuals, red predominates orange.   

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Snake of the Day 07-03-16

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The grandsire of this Striped Tessera was a Pewter so this is either a Striped Tessera Pewter or a Striped Tessera Charcoal.   Naturally, I default to the later for two reasons; 1) wise to default to the least-case-scenario and 2) The stripe is perhaps too contiguous to believe it could be a Bloodred mutation.  It’s not unknown for a Bloodred Tessera type to have such a perfect stripe, but exceedingly rare?

Snake of the Day 07-04-16

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This gravid female Granite Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) will lay her eggs in a week or two.  She was all wrapped around my hand when I set her on the black felt to photograph, but she didn’t feel like lounging.  Took the picture before she finally stretched out.