Category: SOTD

Snake of the Day 05-06-16

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A work-in-progress we are thiiiisssssssssss close to eliminating the yellow (therefore, orange) in this project.  One more generation of breeding this one to perhaps one of our new RED mutants and we’ll have an amazing new corn morph.  This is one of the red-on-red Fluorescent corns I mentioned previously, but we won’t be selling any of the red babies until we reach our goal of red perfection.  This is one business where it pays to be “picky”, right? 

Snake of the Day 05-07-16

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This adult male Sunrise Amel corn is now 35″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice. Obviously, the value of Sunrise Amel double mutants isn’t their Sunglow-like coloration but how they will impact other mutant compounds via the blending of the Sunrise mutation with other color and pattern mutations?  His $195.00 USD price includes      S .

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A newly hatched Sunrise Amel Tessera demonstrating a phenotype similar to a Snow, but with the slightest blush of orange. 

 

Shown here–at just a few weeks of age–Sunrise Amel (below) and Sunrise Amel Tessera (above) in their neonatal colors just prior to the beginning of extreme orange color saturation that intensifies through maturity.  Hence, the name SUNRISE–as looking similar to pale Amels or Snows with a blush of orange, but slowly transforming to deeply red/orange adults through maturation, not unlike the transition from early sunrise to full DAYlight. 

Snake of the Day 05-08-16

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Comparison of a Scaleless Extreme Okeetee adult with one of his scaled Extreme Okeetee Het Scaleless progeny. 

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 04-23-16

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We have eggs from these two “Striped” Honey corns (pic taken when they were juveniles), so we hope to finally be able to sell some this summer.  

Snake of the Day 04-24-16

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A few years ago we bred a Kastanie to a Java (unproven genetics thus far) and this is one of the progeny.  Some were not as pale as this one, but this one typifies the general coloration.  Ongoing breeding trials will hopefully identify the inheritance of Java corns (first produced and named by a South African corn snake breeder).  

Snake of the Day 05-10-16

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A great example of a female Salmon Ghost.  Most males have this much (and even more coral coloration) but often females aren’t this colorful.  Of course, with so many people selectively-breeding for most color saturation, this may be a relatively inferior Salmon (Coral) Ghost in a few years? 

Snake of the Day 05-11-16

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This adult female Salmon Snow Corn emerged from a very long brumation yesterDAY.  In two weeks, I’ll post a S.O.T.D. feature that shows how inflated she will be from eating one adult mouse every four or five DAYs (post-brumal feeding regimen).