Category: SOTD

Snake of the Day 12-18-15

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This 2015 female Corn Snake doesn’t look like much but one of her parents was a Striped Fire (therefore, she is het for Stripe, Amel, and Diffused).  She is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. Her 145.00 USD price includes  

Snake of the Day 12-18-15

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This 2015 female Corn Snake doesn’t look like much but one of her parents was a Striped Fire (therefore, she is het for Stripe, Amel, and Diffused).  She is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. Her $145.00 USD price includes  

Snake of the Day 12-19-15

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This male 2014 ?p/s? Key Corn is now 25″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  He barely shows any Pied-sided features anywhere other than his head (and a little here-and-there on his sides), but his father has decent white on his sides. Both of his parents never got red as they matured, instead retaining the diffusion and color most common in Key Corns. Why the eye shows so little contrast between pupil and iris is a mystery to me?  His $325.00 usd price includes    

Snake of the Day 12-20-15

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This female 2014 Bloodred Motley Corn is now 31″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.  Though her colors do not satisfy the expections of her parents that were double-het for the “white-sided” Granite Motley Bloodred owned by Rich Hume, it will be interesting to see what progeny of hers are rendered in the future.  Her $325.00 usd price includes    

Snake of the Day 12-22-15

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This 15″ male 2015 Gold Dust Corn Snake is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $115.00 usd price includes     All Ultra and Ultramel corn snakes (including this Caramel Ultramel; aka Gold Dust) are Inter-species hybrids from the original pairing of a Gray Rat Snake to a Corn Snake.

Snake of the Day 12-23-15

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Upon reading/hearing “Lavender Corn Snake” most of us have the preconception of a corn that is some shade of purple?  Many neonatal Lavenders have this coloration, and a few of them mature to maintain some shade of lavender, but most of them are shades of gray.  This adult male–that hatched in 2001–is mostly gray and demonstrates the most common form of striping in Striped Lavender mutants, Vanishing Stripe.  In the realm of describing the stripe on these mutants, some hatch with a little more visible striping and slowly lose the posterior-most striping segments, leaving only visible stripes in the first 1/3 of their bodies, but most Vanishing Striped Lavenders (like this one) hatch with only the anterior-most dorso-lateral striping on the first 1/8 of his body.  Bred to any variation of the Striped corn snake mutation, 100% striped progeny will result, in some form or fashion of the Striped mutation.  This means that if you see a visually stripe-less/pattern-less corn, it’s just a variant of the Stripe mutation.   

Snake of the Day 12-24-15a

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Two homozygote (aka: Super Form) Red Factor Motley mutants; one Super Salmon Snow Motley and one Super Sunglow Motley.  Compared to their morph compounds without Red Factor, both owe their extra-red coloration to having both copies of the paired gene mutation, Red Factor.  If they only had one copy of the paired gene mutation, they would perhaps exhibit half of the red coloration exhibited in the above corns.  Because the RF gene mutation is dominant to wild-type when bred to non-RF corns some of the progeny (approximately 1/2) would have only a blush of extra-red wash over their bodies.