Category: SOTD

Have you any idea how difficult it is not to grab my camera every time I open the cage of a Scaleless Extreme Okeetee?

  Another reason I love shooting the Scaleless corns is that the only reflection from the camera flashes is on their eyes. 

Note the differences between Ultramel Anery and Ultramel Charcoal.  The eye of the Ultramel Charcoal almost appears not to have an iris, and while both Anery and Charcoal can have a blush of pink on their faces, it’s much more pronounced on Charcoal-types. The origins of the Ultra mutation in corn snakes derives from the initial pairing of a Gray Rat Snake to a Corn.  Therefore, Ultra (and Ultramel) types are technically inter-speciesl hybrids. 

Part of the non-Honey Motley siblings–of broods that include Honey Motleys–have a head that demonstrates less color (and often different colors) than the rest of their bodies.  Since not all of the non-Honey siblings exhibit this head color distinction, it begs the question, “is a gene mutation causing this?”. Breeding trials are under way to hopefully answer this question.  I’ll need to review past data to see if I got some of these from non-Honey Sunkissed Motleys in the past also.  Then, have I ever seen this with any Sunkissed mutants or their non-mutant siblings, and so on?  Only by evaluation of Punnet Square results can we unravel such genetic mysteries.  I’m convinced it’s not color-paradoxical in genetic origin.

A typical Striped Caramel Corn Snake.  

Adult Caramel Tessera Corn Snake.

An adult Male Coral Ghost Corn Snake.  Thank you again, Graham Criglow.