Category: SOTD

Snake of the Day 02-17-19

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Monochromatic corn snake lovers should have one/some of these Charcoal Terrazzos in their breeding inventory.  Not only because they are exemplary in their degree of color-less expression, but because all of our Charcoal and Lava Terrazzos derive directly from the original Craig Boyd line of this pattern mutant.  Compared to other lines of Terrazzos, Boyd Line Terrazzos show much less striped pattern.  We should have babies for sale later this summer. For those who are less familiar with the genetics of Terrazzos, while this snake is similar to a Striped/Vanishing Striped mutant, if you bred this snake to a Striped–or Vanishing Striped–mutant, none of their progeny would be Terrazzo OR Striped, unless they shared at least one copy of the genes of their partner.  In corn snakes Terrazzo is not ALLELIC to Stripe.

Snake of the Day 02-02-19

This 28″ male 2017 corn snake is het for Amel and possibly het for Caramel and Scaleless.  He is currently eating frozen/thawed large fuzzy mice.  While not the most colorful of corns, this snake is about to slough its outer skin, so it should have a little more color in a week or so?

Snake of the Day 02-03-19

 
Head shot of a MicroScale Butter corn snake, demonstrating only part of the abnormal scalation that is often rendered by this mutated gene.  Not only are virtually all scales smaller than those on their scaled counterparts, but also malformed–relative to the shapes of normal corn snake scales.  Likewise, not only are different body zones dominated by particular atypically shaped scales, but there are also random anomalous scale shapes?  On the head of this one you can see that not only are there many skin zones that are not armored by scales, but a somewhat nonbilateral-symmetry of scales.  While color and markings are generally bilateral (each side being typically a mirrored pattern of the opposing side), some of the scales do not necessarily follow bilaterally symmetric rules?  Such is the nature of mutated genes, eh?  The next picture exaggerates this nonbilateral exception with black outlines of scales.  One example does not indicate that perhaps only one side has more uniformly shaped scales, but you can see on the head of this snake that the left (picture-right) side of the head has notably “malformed” scales that are not the same shape as the scales on the right side of the head (picture-left)?  Tomorrow’s SOTD demonstrates other features of this handsome corn snake mutant.

Snake of the Day 02-04-19

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More images of yesterDAY’s MicroScale Butter corn snake mutant.  Notice the different shapes of body zone scalation, but also the occasional random anomalously shaped scales, here and there?  Why there seems to be a lateral delineation between the dorsal and droso-lateral scales and the start of the lower lateral mid-line scales, I can’t explain the lower half of the body being wider than the upper lateral body (at blue arrow point)?  I am not implying that all MicroScale corn mutants have this, but it’s overtly noticeable on this snake.  Is this because of different scale thicknesses, or musculature?  Bonus PIC . . .

Snake of the Day 01-20-19

The parents of this 2017 male Sunkissed Tessera corn snake have never produced any homozygote Star-gazer (aka: SG) mutants, but only one of them was tested negative for the SG mutation.  He is 24″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

Snake of the Day 02-05-19

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A 2018 Banded Charcoal Okeetee corn snake that is the result of the Charcoal mutation and selective-breeding (polygenetics) to achieve the thick black saddle margins and the elongation of saddles, in our breeding attempts to render the almost banded pattern seen in this snake.   Bonus PICs . . .

Snake of the Day 01-21-19

This 2018 female Candy Cane Tessera corn is the start of a great project.  From the ground floor, bred to any Candy Cane type, you get approximately 50% Candy Cane Tesseras and since this one is het for Stripe, you could be one of the few (if not first) to make Striped Candy Cane Tesseras?  She is 18″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium pinky mice.  

Snake of the Day 02-06-19

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This 18″ female 2018 corn snake is het for Scaleless, Hypo & Sunkissed, and is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.    $185.00 plus $39.00 Pair-price for male and female 2018s is $265.00 plus $39.00 .  A female is being offered as the SOTD feature tomorrow, SOTD-020719

note:  ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including SCALED corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation–aka Het Scaleless), AND even possible-hets are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake).  Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled relatives) are inter-species hybrids.