Snake of the Day 09-20-14

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One of our adult Red-headed Kastanie corns from Germany.  She’s a bit of a show-off with her fancy poses.   In my opinion, the best Kastanies are produced where they were first discovered; Germany. Thank you, Frank Schaub for discovering this amazing gene mutation.   . . . 

Snake of the Day 10-06-14

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Theories/explanations welcomed.  On the left–in Chip Bridges’ hand–is the picture he sent after this amazing Scaleless corn hatched.  Pic’d on right is the same snake as it appeared when it arrived here a few weeks ago.  Chip said it changed from “blue” to what we see toDAY in the first week or two of its life.  W H Y  ? ? ? 

Snake of the Day 09-21-14

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This 2012 Adult male Sulphur (Butter Bloodred) corn snake is now 39″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.   His $265.00 price includes  

Snake of the Day 10-07-14

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Thank you, Pete Quinlin, for these mother & son Gray-banded Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis alterna).  The adult mother of this leucistic Gray-band is obviously het for leucism.  Her phenotype suggests that like most leucistic serpent mutants, she is a Visual Het of a mutation that is incompletely-dominant to wild type.  In other words, with one copy of the paired gene mutation, she has a look that is generally distinguishable from the nominate form of her species (faded scales in and around the orange markings).  Yes, we realize that Gray-banded kings are a relatively young species since they are so generally polymorphic, in so much as Gray-bands have been captured with this look that were surely not het. for leucism.  Both of these snakes were displayed on our tables at the recent NARBC Reptile Expo last last month in Arlington, Texas.  

Snake of the Day 09-22-14

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Those of us who have tried to photograph the BEST PROFILE of P/S Bloodreds will attest to the resulting frustration.  Since both sides are unique in their volume expression of lateral white, one picture seldom exemplifies the quality of one of these gems.  BTW, when I first named them Pied-sided Bloodreds (aka: P/S Bloodreds) I did so because one DAY there WILL BE a true Piebald (Pied) Corn Snake and it will likely not be linked solely to Bloodred as this one is.  So far, the P/S phenotype is only demonstrated in Bloodred Corns. It would have been reckless and inconsiderate to call them Pied Corns because there would be much future confusion between this mutation and the Pied mutation that will someDAY show random white over the entire body, VS. only on the sides.   . . .

Snake of the Day 09-19-14bb

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Thank you, Chip Bridges of Blue Ridge Reef & Pet in Black Mountain, NC, for sending this amazing Scaleless corn snake.  I’m overwhelmed by his amazing colors and pattern. 

Snake of the Day 09-24-14

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Pet quality late 2013 male Lavender Tessera with a few noticeable spinal kinks.  His $125.00 price includes  He has always fed and digested without any problems and the kinks are proportionately the same size they were at hatch (they have not proportionately grown with age).

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Snake of the Day 09-25-14

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2014 male Snow Tessera corn snake from Salmon Snow stock.  Will he mature to have coral coloration?  It’s very possible since both parents have one gene copy of the Red Mask mutation that causes such coloration in their family lines.  His $425.00 price includes  S O L D

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Same snake in different pose. S O L D

 

Snake of the Day 09-26-14

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2014 male Lavender corn snake HET for Bloodred (therefore, Het Plasma).  Currently eating medium to large frozen/thawed pinky mice.   His $105.00 price includes