Snake of the Day 03-18-16

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Two 2015 hatchling Scaleless “Corn” Snakes, Amelanistic and a potentially Bloodred (parents of the latter were het for P/S Bloodred, Sunglow, Motley and Scaleless).  ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY derive from the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids.  Thank you, Jud McClanahan in Salina, Kansas, for making these beautiful snakes. 

Snake of the Day 03-19-16

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The parents of this snake were a Scaleless Extreme Okeetee and a Scaled Okeetee, neither of which had this pale ground color.  I believe the pale and buckskin-like color is from the Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake) heritage of all Scaleless and Het Scaleless “corns” in the hobby toDAY.  Not that many Emory’s Ratsnakes are this color, but since this is overtly atypical for a pure corn snake, I suspect this color is owed to Emory’s ancestry altering typical corn snake coloration. 

Snake of the Day 04-03-16

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Many who have not seen them in person ask me how the sloughed epidermis (shed skin) on the Scaleless Corns differs from scaled Corns.  Here are two pictures demonstrating the visual difference.      Bonus pic 

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Snake of the Day 03-20-16

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A particularly colorful example of a Scaleless corn that actually lacks any color mutations.  All Scaleless and Het Scaleless corn snakes in the hobby toDAY derived from the union of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Rat Snake so they are all inter-species hybrids.  

Snake of the Day 03-21-16

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Arguably, no two organisms are identical (perhaps unless cloned), but in Scaleless corn snakes there is great variety in the location and volume of scalation.  The relatively few scales they have are random in distribution and always smaller and misshapen, compared to typical corn snake scales.  Note the top-dorsal longitudinal row of small scales on this 2015 hatchling, AND many other parallel rows on the posterior half of this snake.  All Scaleless and Het Scaleless corn snakes in the hobby toDAY derived from the union of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Rat Snake so they are all inter-species hybrids.  

Snake of the Day 03-22-16

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Two 2015 hatchling examples of the Scaleless Caramel Corns.  ALL Scaleless and Het Scaleless corn snakes in the hobby toDAY derived from the union of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Rat Snake, so they are all inter-species hybrids.  SECOND PIC

Snake of the Day 03-25-16

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2015 aberrant Scaleless Caramel Corn Snake.   ALL Scaleless and Het Scaleless corn snakes in the hobby toDAY derived from the union of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Rat Snake, so they are all inter-species hybrids.