Category: SOTD

This 2014 male Striped Tessera, Het Caramel is now 18″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice.

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27″ male 2013 Bloodred Tessera Corn Snake.  He is currently eating one frozen/thawed hopper mouse every five to seven DAYs.  $345.00 includes FREE  OVERNIGHT SHIPPING  

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21″ female 2014 Butter Tessera Corn Snake.  She is currently eating one frozen/thawed large pinky mouse every five to seven DAYs.  $395.00 includes FREE  OVERNIGHT  SHIPPING  

This 2012 Adult male Sulphur (Butter Bloodred) corn snake is now 41″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.   He is currently in brumation, scheduled to emerge in February, 2015.

Interesting history of the Sunglow Motley Corn.

We first acquired a pair of sub-adult Sunglow Motleys before they bore that name (Justin Ratts of the Dallas/Ft.Worth area named them at that reptile expo in the mid 1990s) and I have reproduced them ever since.  Most of them had the amazingly symmetric motley markings seen above (on right).  Back in about 2004, Marsha Matthews (POPPYCORNS.COM) told me that from breeding trials with them, she gleaned that they were more color-saturated than virtually all Amel Motleys in the hobby because of a extra gene mutation she called RED MASK (aka: Red Factor)–which is dominant to wild-type.  

We were the first to produce Lava Terrazzo Corns (and quite by accident).  Perhaps the strong tan and orange color scheme in them derives from our use of pure Boyd-Line Terrazzos to make mutant compounds like this one?   Out-crossed Terrazzos often stray from the natural predominant buff coloration of many middle-to-lower Key Corns.  In other words, if Terrazzos are bred to non-Key Corns, subsequent generations tend to be less tan than their nominate insular form.

Sub-adult Diffused Lava (aka: Lava Bloodred, since a Bloodred  was used to make this mutation compound).

Not just the Classic Opal Motley he appears to be, this one has a Coral-type Snow parent.  Marsha Matthews (poppycorns.com)–from whom I acquired this gem–would be insulted that I casually called one of its parents “Coral”, but I hope she knows that not citing the genetic royalty of this snake is only because I don’t keep up with the lineage of her beautiful corns. The non-Opal parent of this male Opal Motley is Sonnet (Neon X Salmon), for those of you who are familiar with her breeding stock.  Thanks a million, Marsha!

The inherent value of the Blizzard Palmetto is that if you breed one to a Palmetto that is het for Blizzard (Amel and Charcoal), other than common corns, you can get Palmettos, Amel Palmettos, Charcoal Palmettos and Blizzard Palmettos, but I still prefer the classic Palmetto over mutation compounds.  These faint yellow color freckles are only a token expression of yellow, compared to the color expectation we imagine in Butter Palmettos.  Hopefully, in 2015 we will hatch Caramel Palmettos and Butter Palmettos.  The freckling of the Butter Palmettos should be at least twice as yellow as the freckles on this sub-adult Blizzard Palmetto.  Fingers crossed. 

This 2013 male Lava Tessera corn snake is now 34″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.   Otherwise lateral black color zones being gray is what prompted the originator to originally call Lavas TRANSLUCENT HYPOS.  Aren’t we glad he changed that to LAVA?  We expect him to be mature enough to breed in 2015.