Category: SOTD

This 2015 female Charcoal is from a Tessera parent so her colors are sharper than most Charcoals.  She is now about 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed small mouse pinkies.

This 2015 female Tessera corn snake is currently about 17″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.

A demonstration of the difference one year of maturity has on two related corn snakes.  Both Boot Key Corns, the larger of the two was produced in 2014 by John Finsterwald in Colorado and the 2015 hatchling by Orlando Diaz in Florida. The younger of these will look exactly like the larger one a year from now.  This beautiful naturally-occurring corn snake morph is growing in hobby popularity, but this particular Key (Island) form will probably always be rare.

2015 male Buckskin Okeetee corn snake is currently about 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. It’s potentially important to note that the lineage of this snake has never included Tessera.  There are several sellers lately selling Okeetees and Miamis without mentioning this Tessera heritage.  If someDAY it is discovered that Tessera has hybrid origins, it will be important to know if you have such hybrids in your breeding inventory.

This 2015 male Anery corn snake is already demonstrating pink from the influence of the Red Factor gene mutation, and should intensify in color through maturity.  He is now about 15″ long, eating frozen/thawed small mouse pinkies.

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This 2014 female Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) is now 20″ long, eating unaltered frozen/thawed fuzzy mice  Her $165.00 USD price includes     

This 2015 female Motley corn snake is currently 19″ long, eating frozen/thawed small mouse pinkies.

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Brother and sister–one year apart–the larger is a p/s OLD-SCHOOL Bloodred (VERY low white) and a Cayenne Fire from the South African Line.  The Fire (Amel) will be much redder in one year and will continue to redden for another few years thereafter, representing the reddest corn snake mutation in the hobby, Cayenne Fire.  

Produced by John Stolz, TailsNscales in Derby, Kansas, this beautiful 2015 Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake) is surely het for the Chocolate mutation for this species?  This is not an unusually rare example of aberrant pattern–that is usually inherited from a Chocolate Emory’s Ratsnake mutant.  I forgot to ask, but I’d expect John to say that one of the parents of this one was het or homo for that pattern mutation that usually renders a twin-spotted pattern down the back.

This 2014 female Motley corn snake is currently 28″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  She is het for Sunkissed.