Category: SOTD

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

 

Part of a brood including Ultramel Charcoals.  Blizzard is the composite product of Amel & Charcoal, but the Ulta & Charcoal counterpart composite is the Ultramel Charcoal (non-Amels in this picture). Most of our adult Blizzards are actually Snow Blizzards so we often get Anery and Snow products along with the Charcoals and Blizzards.  See the South Mountain Reptiles FaceBook image from two DAYs ago to see more of the siblingss of this brood. 

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

Another busily marked 2013 Tessera (two camera angles of the same snake) from the pairing of a Tessera (Het Amel) to a Candy Cane, but this one is a male.  Of course, he is also Het for the Amel mutation.  The stomach bulge corresponds to a plump pinky mouse he ate an hour before these images were made. Barely visible in these images is an amazing polka dot pattern on the tail.

 

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

  

(LEFT) Yet ANOTHER boring shot of a Tessera family?  At first glance, “yes”, but these Tesseras should mature to have lots of black and intensely maroon markings.  The common corn in the upper-right-hand corner of the left image has beautifully shaped lateral markings with deeply maroon centers.  Ghosty-looking?  (RIGHT) A high-black Tessera that was sired by the same male as the hatchlings on the left.  BTW, I love the fish skeleton look on the tail that falsely appears to be the spine and ribs showing through the break of the red dorsal stripe.  

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

Of course, these four corn snakes are recognizable as Amel mutants by virtue of their red eyes, but isn’t it amazing

how vastly different they can be from the effects of selective-breeding?    The more-orange ones are

Extreme Reverse Okeetees and the red and white ones are High-white Reverse Okeetees.  

Ps, I love the white dots on the head of the top snake.

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

  

From pairing a Striped Tessera to a Sunkissed Motley, six or seven of the progeny look like this one.  In some light exposures, the heads appear to be baby-blue.  Of all of them, this one has the most dramatic Hurricane variation of the Motley pattern.    

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

    

Certainly not all the different color and pattern combinations in the Tessera mutant complex, but these are representatives of all the ones we’ve produced so far this year.  Noted models for these pix include, though some were camera shy:  Regular Tessera, Amel, Anery, Caramel, Charcoal, Bloodred, Lava, Buf, Butter, Striped Butter, Striped Ghost, Striped Caramel, and a couple of odd Striped Tesseras.  After noting that the Striped Butter Tessera was buried, and due to the stress (MINE, not theirs) of setting up, maintaining order, and breaking down this shoot, I elected not to shoot again just so the Striped Butter Tessera would be visible.  Doing it all over again, surely one of the others would take his place under the substrate?  I NEVER want to do a busy shoot like this again.  Whewwww!

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

    

The left image shows three Kastanie mutants, two of which are from the U.S. line discoverd in Florida Key Corns.  The far-right head in that image belongs to a Kastanie whose parents were both from the German line started by Frank Schaub.  Typical of SMR German Kastanies, when mature, this hatchling will have a redder head than the U.S. Kastanies.  The German lineage Kastanies I have will display generally darker colors at maturity, while the U.S. Kastanies tend to display a brighter orange overtone.  Many Kastanies resemble neonatal Anery mutants when they first hatch, quickly putting on color in the first months of maturity.  The adult Kastanie on the right is the mother of the hatchling German Kastanie pictured on the left. 

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

    

This 2011 adult Caramel Tessera has an amazing concentration of ventro–lateral carotenoid yellow, and typically continually exhibits more of it through maturity. Retaining carotenes is not at all uncommon in corn snakes, but this is the most and fastest accumulation I’ve seen.  With this much yellow at only two years of age, I suspect this snake will have an amazing volume of yellow in just two or three more years.  I’ll share carotenoid retention progress on this snake as it matures. 

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

Anery and Amel Palmettos.  It appears that the Anery types of Palmettos (Charcoal and Anery A) show more (if not all) of their color smudges and flecks as hatchlings, where as the Amel types of Palmettos show few of the color flecks and smudges they will have when they’re mature.  Since regular Palmettos have many more visible color flecks when mature, compared to when they were hatchlings, and since red flecks are the ones they gain more of throughout maturity, it makes sense that Amel Palmettos would start out showing so much less color than their non-Amel Palmetto counterparts.  Shrugs?  

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

The Scaleless corn on the left is not a color morph (it is considered a common corn in terms of color) and the Scaleless corn on the right is an Extreme Okeetee from SMR stock. It was produced by Stephane Rouselle in France, using an Extreme Okeetee he purchased from me several years ago.  I cannot say if all non-color mutants of the Scaleless variety are as colorful as the one on the left, but it IS encouraging that the potential exists.  There is a huge difference in their tails, surely due to the typically thick black blotch margins rendering a banded effect on the tail of most Extreme Okeetees.  Imagine one of Graham Criglow’s amazing super-extreme Okeetees without scales?