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This 18″ male 2018 corn snake is het for Scaleless, Hypo & Sunkissed, and is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.    $145.00 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 yesterDAY, SOTD-020619

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. 

Two views of the same 2018 Amel Sunkissed Motley, produced by Joe Peck.  Love the skulled medusa facsimile on the head.   I don’t think I could have drawn the head stamp with better bilateral symmetry than DNA did?

This male 2017 Sunkissed corn snake is possibly het for Scaleless, since both parents were het for Scaleless.  He is currently 22″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

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).  Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled siblings) are inter-species hybrids.  

This 28″ male 2017 Scaleless corn snake should be mature enough to breed this summer?  He is currently eating frozen/thawed large fuzzy mice.

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 siblings) are inter-species hybrids.

This male 2018 Amel corn snake is possibly het for Scaleless Striped Caramel (therefore, het Scaleless Striped Butter).  He is 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.

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 siblings) are inter-species hybrids.

No, they’re not related.  Center is a yearling Cayenne Fire (red-factor, Amel, Bloodred) produced here and outside is an Ultramel Okeetee produced by Dr. Brad Lichtenhan.  They’re together in this feature for color comparison.  This is NOT the Cayenne Fire that was featured on January 7th.

This snake is a vivid demonstration of the mode of inheritance of most red-modifying gene mutations AND also the power of most red-modifiers.  Two years ago I bred a Cherry Amel to a classic Okeetee (obviously het Amel) that actually had very faint black blotch margins, but just look at this sub-2-year-old Amel from that pairing?  No telling how red he will be in another year?  The next generation of Cherry Fluorescent Amels should be spectacular. I hope to show you hatchlings of those later this summer. 

Over the years, many people have asked what the difference is between Reverse Okeetee and SMR Fluorescent.  I don’t say that all cases are parallel to the comparative offered in toDAY’s SOTD feature, but the snakes in toDAY’s comparison between Reverse Okeetee and SMR Fluorescent represent the average pheontypes of respective SMR morphs. Featured pic shows Reverse Okeetee (top) and two Fluorescent corns below it.  What makes the white saddle margins POP in the Fluorescent Amels is the absence of white “clutter” in both ground and saddle zones, unlike the white stippling and softer colors on most Reverse Okeetees.

This 27″ male 2017 Sunkissed Motley is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

This 29″ male 2017 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.