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This Coral Ghost laid her eggs on May 12th.  Her mate this season was a Specter “?anery?”, so the babies will hopefully have deep pink colors?

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There will be a side story about the babies inside these special eggs AFTER they hatch.  Not teasing anyone, I just wanted to show that not all corn snake eggs are laid parallel to the ground.  Of course, these are all stuck together, but the orientation reminds us of the collective formation of falling dominoes?  Some of these snakes can be quite artistic about clutch formation patterns, and I’ve observed that some of these laying patterns are inherited via their daughters.   BONUS  PIC . . .

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This female RedFactor Anery corn snake has been featured a time or two in the past, so this is an update pic of her as an adult.  She could have bred this year, but I elected to give her one more year of growth. 

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Though this individual has never been featured on my web site or SMR FaceBook page, some of you are surely saying, “looks like the others you’ve shown, Don”.  While generally true that they share a basically consistent phenotype, they all seem to have different shades of color striping.  This Striped mutant Trans-pecos Ratsnake (Bogertophis subocularius) is the homozygous form of the Striped gene mutation in this species.  So far, all of them have utterly contiguous striping from neck to tail tip.  

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Some of you will recall the SOTD feature on April 7, 2018, showing a sub-adult Variable Kingsnake (Lampropeltis thayeri) that had been hiding in the main snake building for several months.  He/she was recovered in April via getting hopelessly stuck to a Masking Tape Trap I had set for another loose snake (see PIC 2 toDAY).  A few scales were pulled off in the tape removal process, but I can’t even find those places now, after a couple of sheds.  . . .

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Gravid (egg-laden) 2014 female GRANITE MORPH Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) that should be laying her eggs soon. 

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A Granite Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) female “guarding” her future family of nine.  She laid these precious eggs on May 17, 2018.  BONUS  PIC

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Laid on May 17, 2018, eggs from Tessera X Terrazzo.  She is not het Terrazzo, Terri B,  so we’re only on 1st base of this project.  PEEK-A-BOO, lower left corner!

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This Salmon Ghost corn (bred to a Specter Anery) laid her eggs on May 17, 2018.  The hatchlings should be very pink, and will be offered for sale in a little over two months. 

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Don’t let this odd ball slip through your fingers.  This 2017 female hatchling Snow corn snake is currently 17″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium pinky mice.  In 2017 I bred my best eXtreme Reverse Okeetee to an eXtreme Reverse Okeetee that I’d never used before, and one of the eggs had this female Snow in it.  Why does she look this way?  How will she look at maturity?  I don’t know, but she shows great color promise.  Keep in mind that under this odd SNOW  facade, she’s still an eXtreme Reverse Okeetee, so she would be a good breeder for that and for trying to make more like her via using a Snow or an Reverse Okeetee het for Anery?  Her $165.00 price includes