Category: SOTD

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This 2010 male common corn is largely unidentified.  I recall that he is het for Caramel but because his ID label was lost in brumation last year, I don’t recall exactly what other mutations he possesses. It is inconceiveable even to me that I would keep a male common corn that was only het for Caramel, so this one is surely het for other mutations.  Were I to guess, I’d say he’s probably at least for Stripe and Bloodred and I recall breeding Pied-sided Bloodred to Butter about the time this one hatched.  Obviously, the shipped price of this one ($125.00) demonstrates my concern for not over-pricing a snake when its genetics are in question.  With shipping for a snake this size costing at least $57.00, he bears the price of a Common Corn Snake.

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ToDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Sun. 28, 2012)

 

#102812

Sunglow from Red Mask parent

Male

d.o.h. 2011
28″ long on October 27, 2012

$125.00 shipped

 

In addition to being a stunning example of the Sunglow Morph, this 28″ male from 2011 was sired by a Red Mask corn.  At this time, we believe the effects of the Red Mask mutation are dominant to wild-type – in the realm of inheritance.  This one already demonstrates an exaggeration of red in both the markings and ground color zones.  If he did not inherit the Red Mask trait, he promises to be a shockingly beautiful adult male.

Regardless of appearance, this snake is NOT het for the Caramel Mutation!

Sunglow corn snakes are the products of selectively breeding Amel corns toward the goal of intensifying the red/orange coloration and eliminating the white blotch borders.  Most have some white scales, but are generally two shades of the Amel color theme.

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ToDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY Fri, Nov 2, 2012)

#110212

Low-White Pied-sided Bloodred

Male

d.o.h. 2010
44″ long on October 31, 2012

$250.00 shipped

This 2010 male Low-White P/S Bloodred shows little white, but is capable of producing lows, mediums, and highs in the realm of the degree of white – when bred to other SMR Line P/S Bloodreds.  He is possibly het for the McDonald Line of P/S Bloodreds.  he’s 44″ long and eating frozen/thawed adult mice.

Go to History for more details about the DIFFUSED / BLOODRED base mutation of this compound morph.

At this time, this author suspects that P/S Bloodreds owe their atypical white lateral and facial markings to polygenetic traits versus simple recessive mutation. It is sometimes difficult to determine the inheritance of a trait or mutation when expression of the atypical feature is highly variable.  In other words, are the Bloodred siblings of P/S Bloodreds not P/S Bloodreds OR are they P/S Bloodred mutants that are at the lowest end of the 0-to-10 scale for white expression?  When proving the mode of inheritance via evaluation of Mendelian Phenotype Proportions in a single brood of snakes, visual expression is crucial.  Hence, if the expression of white in this morph can be so extremely variable, when citing the ratio of visual mutants compared to visual non mutants, the very description of inheritance can be in doubt.  I therefore honestly don’t know if P/S Bloodreds owe their distinctive pied-sided white appearance to a recessive mutation OR polygenic trait modifications.

Aside from the random lateral white feature that is obvious in most members of this morph – compared to standard Bloodreds – is the extreme diffusion – even if they don’t demonstrate any of the randomly distributed white patches on the sides.  On most – even in the absence of lateral white patches – there is an obvious line of demarcation between the dorsal and lateral pattern fields – just above the half-way point on the sides (dorso–laterally).  This stark break line between dorsal and lateral markings also begs questions about the lateral white being a mutation OR variable expression of polygenetics.

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ToDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Sat, Nov 3, 2012)

#110312

Striped Motley Sunglow

Female

d.o.h. 2011
37″ long on October 31, 2012

$225.00 shipped

This 2011 Striped Sunglow Motley is 37″ long and eating frozen/thawed adult mice.  She has not been cooled in preparation for the 2013 breeding season, but there is still time to do that.  She is most likely het for Stripe, so if you breed her to a Striped Sunglow, you should bet both Striped Motley Sunglows and Striped Sunglows.  Some of her siblings were Butter Motleys, and it appears that she could be het for Caramel (ergo: Butter).

Many generations were spent in refining the beauty of the Sunglow Motley.  Their genetic mutation is officially Amel Motley, but they have been selectively bred toward the goal of deeply saturated red coloration and classically orderly Motleypattern.  For years, we were helpless to explain why the colors in this line were so deeply saturated and why they were redder than other genetic lines.  In 2009, one of our friends that wondered the same and conducted breeding trials to determine what caused the intense colors.  She concludes that SMR Sunglow Motleys possess the added mutation of what is sometimes referred to as Red Mask or Red Factor.  It is allegedly inherited in dominant fashion (it is a recently discovered mutation and is still poorly understood).  Once I validate her genetic inheritance findings, the price of Sunglow Motleys will increase, since they will undoubtedly become powerful genetic tools in deepening and saturating reds in other corn snake morphs.

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ToDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Sun, Nov 4, 2012)

#110412

RED Banded Reverse Okeetee

Male

d.o.h. 2011

37″ long on October 31, 2012

$300.00 shipped

This 2010 male Reverse Okeetee exhibits what is rarely seen in our hobby; banded pattern. He should make a great addition to any breeding product to produce redder Reverse Okeetees with banded triads.

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Most Commonly Used Name: Reverse Okeetee

Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variation

Reverse Okeetee (aka: Amel Okeetee, Albino Okeetee)

Morph Type: Selective variant of single recessive mutation

Eye Color:  Red pupils

Reverse Okeetees are variants of the basic Amel Mutation, so their only visual distinction from corns is their polygenetic color and pattern scheme.  Genetically speaking, Reverse Okeetees are Amel corns that have been selectively bred to promote their target look (Highly saturated blotch colors, separated from clean and unspeckled ground coloration by prominent white blotch margins). Red or orange markings are not difficult to reproduce through generational line breeding, but the quality and size of the white blotch margins is often difficult to achieve, and sometimes difficult to maintain through subsequent generations.  The degree of color purity in the orange background and red (or orange) markings have been enhanced via polygenetic traits, modified through selective promotion of only the best target phenotypes. Some will exhibit color “clutter” in these zones, but a distinction between Reverse Okeetees and most Amel corns should be a dramatic reduction in color “noise” — rendering richer colors of blotch and ground color zones..