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This 2015 male Tessera corn snake is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  His mother was a Scaleless Anery, so he is het for Scaleless and Anery.  His $375.00 price includes     

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2015 Striped Motley Buttermint (Striped Motley Butter Cinder).  

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2015 Amel and Charcoal ZagTec corns.  The morph name derives from the combination of the morph names ZigZag and Aztec, but in name only, since neither officially denotes the visible pattern in Zagtecs.  Instead perhaps it denotes that while they are not normally patterned, they are neither of the two, but often similar to both?  Their pattern is not inherited via gene mutations like most corn snake pattern mutants, but via polygenetics; the interaction of genes that result in alteration of expression.  Therefore, expression of the namesake pattern is not predictable, and sometimes very disappointing because of a low volume of aberrant namesake pattern.

 

 

 

 

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Adult Striped bloodred corn snake.  

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To most corn keepers these look like Sunglow and Sunglow Tessera corns, but they are much more (I don’t yet even know HOW MUCH more).  These 3-week-old corns are the result of pairing an Amel Tessera with an Amel potentially possessing a new red-modifying gene mutation?  I suspect the incredibly red (or should I say very low-yellow) Amel to be the rendering of a new red-modifying gene mutation, but breeding trials are still incomplete.  I have decided not to sell any of them this year, but will continue to share pictures of their color progression through maturity.

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This 2014 female Moonstone (Anery Lavender) corn snake is now 19″ long eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  Her $165.00 price includes     

 

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BRAIN CANDY!  Hope no retinal damage resulted when you first layed eyes on this glowing corn.  This beautiful high-white Reverse Okeetee was a gift from John Finsterwald (Zorro) of ColoradoCorns.com.  Deep thanks to my good friend, John.   

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This beautiful Anery-type corn is the 2nd generation product of pairing two snakes I acquired long ago from Nancy Wimer (thank you, Nancy).  She sent a beautiful adult Anery Motley and an adult Charcoal that I bred to get many Anery babies.  Breeding just about any two of them together yielded one like toDAY’s featured snake in each brood.  In addition to Snows, Aneries, Charcoals and Charcoal Aneries, there was just one each season like this one.  Also, none of the others had any pink on them.  Don’t we all love such puzzles? 

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A gender pair of Gray-banded kingsnakes (Lampropeltis alterna) I purchased at the NRBE in Daytona Beach, Florida last week.  Great color for their young age, but still refusing cleaned frozen/thawed pinky mice.  It is important to ask the seller what young GBs are eating before you purchase.  Me, I didn’t care since I have been converting GBs to pinkies for over 30 years, but some of your out there may not adapt to the processes of converting them to pinkies. 

 

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Must be GRAY-BAND week at SMR?  Two 2013 female Granite Gray-banded kings (Lampropeltis alterna), having less color than males of their morph, demonstrate their typical gender di-morphism for the GRANITE morph (males and females not having the same general appearance–like Cardinals).  Males below show more color and much paler orange than most Alterna.    S