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Snake of the Day 05-28-13

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.

Both these female Tesseras (left-to-right – Striped Tessera and Tessera) were bred by our male Buf . Their eggs will hatch in early July.

Snake of the Day 05-29-13

Creamsicle Bloodred (aka: Diffused Creamsicle) eggs will hatch in early July and be ready for shipping mid-July.

Snake of the Day 05-14-13

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 2013 mate of this German Kastanie is an unrelated German Kastanie. Because this corn snake

mutation was discovered and therefore bred longer in Europe than we have been breeding them here,

it has the more common general overall coloration of Kastanie Mutants bred in Europe. The red head

is much more common in those bred in Europe than many of the ones we have produced in the past few

years in the U.S.. Eggs from SMR German and American Kastanie Mutants will begin hatching in late June.

Snake of the Day 05-30-13

Naturally, the first 2013 SMR eggs to hatch WOULD be Palmettos. Left — excerpt of a clutch of 18 eggs from a visual Palmetto bred to a Palmetto heterozygote. Right — the first palmetto out of its egg showing off his/her egg toof. The large color spots on the back are flakes of the incubation medium, vermiculite. The off-color zones that appear to encompass more than one scale are places where moisture is trapped between scales of the two upper-most skin layers (the new and old epidermal generations). Very few color specks are visible on Palmettos at this age, but the color flecks that ARE visible now will saturate with respective colors, and new ones will gradually appear and saturate throughout maturity.

Snake of the Day 05-15-13

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.

Our Scaleless Anery from Stephane Rosselle in France was very busy this year at SMR. He bred several different color

and pattern mutants, including at least one female Tessera. Eggs are expected to hatch in early July, so we will have

many corns for sale this year that are het for Scaleless, Anery, and other colors and patterns.

Snake of the Day 05-31-13

Left — the adult Palmetto father of the hatchling on the right. Right — the first 2013 Palmetto corn snake out of her egg — which was S.O.T.D. yesterDAY. Of course, no two Palmettos are alike, but when mature, this one DAY-old hatchling should have as much (if not more) color than her father. The father was as pink and feature-less as this hatchling when he was her age. In the bubble view, note the egg tooth which hatchling snakes use to cut out of their eggs. The egg tooth usually wears off within hours of emergence from their eggs.

Snake of the Day 05-16-13

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.

In addition to breeding several of our Buckskin Okeetee females in the past weeks, this male also

sired eggs from some Reverse Okeetees and other interesting project females. Eggs from them

will be hatching in late June and ready for shipping in July.

Snake of the Day 06-01-13

This male Anery Motley is an F1 from the pairing of a Salmon Snow Motley to an Pink Anery Motley. He has a slight Hurricane Motley pattern so some of the progeny of this pair will inherit that pattern variation. Since the female here is a Salmon Snow Het for Motley, the Salmon colors in most of the babies should be off the charts. Eggs are expected to hatch in a few short weeks.

Snake of the Day 05-17-13

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 interesting project involving the male Anery Scaleless corn from Stephane Rosselle in France is

this beautiful Striped Butter. Therefore, hatchlings from this pairing will obviously be het for Scaleless,

Anery, Caramel, Amel. and Stripe. Some of those hatchlings will be for sale in July. Since Scaleless

mutants of corns have dramatically saturated colors, imagine the beauty of Scaleless Butters??

Snake of the Day 06-02-13

This pair of beautiful Pied-sided Bloodreds graced us with a nice clutch of eggs that will hatch in a few weeks. We should have plenty of nice hatchlings, most of which will look like one or both of their parents.