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This 2014 female SnowTessera is now 18″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Her $275.00 price includes    _$OLD

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This 2014 female Red Mask Amel Motley is now 21″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Genetically, she is a divergent Sunglow Motley, but since she has none of the blood in her of the SMR Sunglow Motley, I’m calling her just a Red Mask Amel Motley.  Those are the same genetic assets (mutations, Red Mask, Amel, and Motley), but the classic SMR-line Sunglow Motleys invariably have almost perfect Motley pattern.  Her $165.00 price includes    

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This 2014 male Lavender Tessera is now 19″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $265.00 price includes    _$OLD

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My idea of the perfect Striped Tessera, this one’s from parents, Striped Tessera & Honey Motley.  She and two of her sisters are currently in a FAMILY WAY for their first breeding season. 

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It’s been so long since I dabbled in Western Hognose snakes (Heterodon nasicus) I don’t know if they have a morph name for twin-spotted ones?  This 2014 female is about 8″ long, eating frozen/thawed, unaltered pinky mice.  Her $155.00 price includes     We have classically patterned hogs for $50 (males) and $60 (females) PLUS flat-rate SHIPPING.   

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Update:  Cotton Candy Corns produced by Graham Criglow.  Larger of the two was featured back in December, demonstrating his transformation from shocking pink to deep coral (almost orange) at maturity.  The other is a 2013 hatchling acquired from John Finsterwald, who got it from Graham as a hatchling.  See SOTD 12-01-14 for more history of this beautiful morph.  We should have 2015 hatchlings for sale this summer. 

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Two adult SMR Sunglow Motley corns.  The lower-most snake in this pic is a Super Sunglow Motley (aka: homozygote of the Red Mask mutation that adds a mask of red) and the other possesses just one copy of the gene; therefore, a classic Sunglow Motley (aka: heterozygote of the Red mask mutation).  Quite a difference between having one copy of the gene mutation or two?

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The hobby name, Kisatchie, was unofficially assigned to the newest Ratsnake species to be described in the United States, Panterophis slowinskii, reportedly because the “holotype” was collected near Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana.  This doesn’t mean that it was the first of its kind to be captured, because I was catching lots of these in 1971 in East Texas and Western Louisiana.  The common name assigned when this species was described is Slowinski’s Corn Snake, but I personally don’t use that name because is contains the word CORN, and this is officially NOT a corn snake.  In 2002, Frank T. Burbrink presented sufficient evidence to establish that this snake, Elaphe slowinskii (now, Pantherophis slowinskii), found between the natural ranges of Corn Snakes, Pantherophis guttatus and Great Plains Rat Snakes (aka: Emory’s Rat Snakes) was sufficiently dissimilar to those species to warrant distinct species status.  Surely this species originated from the ancient natural intergradation of Corn Snakes and Emory’s Rat Snakes?  In order to preserve their genome in captive specimens, since this snake is soundly dissimilar to those two founding species we hope breeders will resist crossing Kisatchies with Corns or Emory’s Rat Sankes.  One thing I noticed when first photographing Kisatchies over a decade ago was that no matter how I filtered my strobes with opaque covers, the light heavily bounced back from these snakes.  Obviously, unlike their Corn and Emory’s cousins, Kisatchies have more iridophores in their epidermis.  

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We don’t often hatch corns with such suggestive markings as this 2014 female Lavender Tessera.  Her most distinctive feature not only indicates her gender but begs naming her for an Egyptian or Roman goddess, for the ankh marking on the crown of her head.  Her other rare Lavender features include rare black eyes (for Lavenders) and her overall dark coloration that usually advertises a better lavender coloration at maturity.  Not unlike the collateral affect on striping seen in Bloodred Tesseras, she has repeatedly broken striping like most Lavender Tesseras.  She is 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium pinky mice.  Her $285.00 price includes    _$OLD

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A beautiful example of Extreme Reverse Okeetee, demonstrating the albino photo-inverse coloration of an Extreme Okeetee.  The goal of most breeders is to selectively breed toward the elimination of color inside the saddles.