Snake of the Day 08-24-13

 
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The shy one of these two Amel Tesseras (top) is more typical in pattern, but redder than most.  He is the product of pairing a Buckskin Okeetee with a Tessera Het Amel; siblings of which included Butter Tesseras.  Parents of the smaller of the two (foreground) were both Tesseras Het Amel.  The broken pattern of that Amel Tessera is not commonly seen, but welcomed in the otherwise consistently-patterned Tessera morph.  Atypicality of the unusual pattern is not necessarily associated with either of its parents, since both of them had classic Tessera pattern, so a gene mutation surely did not cause it?  Shrug? 

Snake of the Day 08-25-13

 
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A 2013 Striped Butter Tessera with two of her striped-type siblings.  Are those sibs also Tesseras? I’ll know for
sure in two years.    Note how the Striped Butter Tessera did not appreciate being photographed (flared jaws)?
 

Snake of the Day 08-29-13

 
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Siblings of the same brood; Sunkissed Motley, Amel Sunkissed Motley, Honey (Caramel Sunkissed) Motley, and Saffron (Butter Sunkissed) Motley.  Like ALL SMR Sunkissed corns of any color and pattern combinations, these derived from the Honey projects of CCCorns.com (Chuck Pritzel and Connie Hurley) — most of whose founding Honey stock originated here at SMR.  Chuck and Connies’ first Honeys were produced by SMR corns het for Sunkissed and Butter Motley. 
 

Snake of the Day 08-30-13

 
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Each new generation of the Buckskin Okeetee corns is better than the last. These two will have outstanding colors, and 
they are not het for Caramel (as one might suspect by seeing the extreme golds and yellows in their ground color zones).