Category: SOTD

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This Axanthic Blonde Trans-pecos Ratsnakes (Bogertophis subocularis ) is owned by Catherine Turley.   . . .

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Yes, compared to its scaled siblings (Butter and Striped Butter) this Scaleless Butter doesn’t show much yellow.  NOT YET!  The only visible pattern on the Scaleless Butter would initially lead someone to believe it’s also a Motley mutant, but it is not Motley.  Since part of the pattern layer(s) are missing on most Scaleless corns, the most visible pattern are the circular ground color zones between markings.  Pic 2 demonstrates how much yellow the 2018 Scaleless Butter will exhibit a year from now, via comparison to a 2017 Scaleless Butter that started life with the same modest expression of yellow.    . . .

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From the pairing of an Amel Tessera to an eXtreme Reverse Okeetee, eXterme Reverse Okeetees and eXtreme Reverse Okeetee Tesseras.  Colors will show more after their first sheds, but in typical corn snake fashion, colors will take many months to saturate appreciably.   . . .

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Back in the 1970s, when I worked at the Sedgwick County Zoo Herpetarium in Wichita, Kansas, we didn’t have sophisticated photographic devices, so when we got a new snake, we mimiographed the belly of the snake on our XEROX ™ machine.  This is because no two snakes have the same belly markings (or other markings, for that matter), and in virtually all cases, not even the same scalation.  Hence, this was our way of maintaining evidence from the DAY or acquisition, in case we ever confused one snake with another of the same species?  Not only are the (chin) scales of this snake not exactly bi-laterally symmetric, but the white patches on them are unique to this snake via pattern, scale location, and volume.  ToDAY, the same identification evidence could be acquired via photographic documentation of the snake’s body patterns via camera or, in the case of belly scalation and pattern, flat-bed scanner.  Such scalation and markings are the equivalent of finger printing humans, since no two humans have the same finger prints. 

 

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Some of the best adult Extreme Okeetee corns in the hobby toDAY started life looking much like Anerythristic mutants–at a glance.  Closer examination reveals that the iris of this snake’s eyes are brown, excluding them from potentially being Aneries, and also, some pale orange scales are visible in the first several neucal (neck region) top dorsal ground zone circles.  Neonatal Anery mutants have silver irises and none of the orange in ground color zones.  I said “best adult Extreme Okeetees” looking this way as neonates because arguably, one of the most prominent features of Extreme Okeetees is their extra wide black blotch margins.  As you can see in this snake, only a few of the “pattern blotches” show a faint blush of brown.  As this snake matures some of those solidly black markings will have a brown center, exaggerating their wide black margins.  Oh, and did I forget to mention that this is a BUCKSKIN Extreme Okeetee?  Hence, at maturity, most of the ground color zones will be silver, or at least gray, whereas most have a tan ground color at maturity. A few of these will be offered for sale this year, once they eat two more times.  I anticipate posting them 10 DAYs from toDAY, likely before April, 2018.

 

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Parents of this 2018 corn were both het for Scaleless Sunglow Motley, so I suspect this one to be a Scaleless Sunglow Motley.  As we have seen, the Scaleless mutation seems to alter traditional Motley pattern, so because of the yellow circles near (and on) the tail, I think this one is a Motley (the broad pattern feature-less dorsal striping is NOT typical for Motley mutants).  I expect (but do not know for sure) the soft orange markings to be more red/orange as an adult?  If you’re looking for a uniquely marked (and colored) Scaleless corn snake, here it is.  I haven’t even checked gender yet, but as soon as it feeds two more times, it will be available for purchase.  That’s when I will reveal the gender.  I estimate sale publication for this snake on or near March 25, 2018.   . . .

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2018 Scaleless corn snake.  This snake exhibits color, pattern, and contrast that are not uncommon in non-pattern and non-color Scaleless mutants, though some would be tempted to call this a Motley?  Not a Motley mutant, this one is from het parents that possessed one copy of Scaleless, Butter and Stripe.  The yellow ground color is potentially a demonstration that this snake is het for Caramel, but there is no way to make that determination just by looking.  All Scaleless corn snakes in our hobby have in common the ancestral captive pairing of a Corn Snake to a Emory’s Ratsnake, so all Scaleless corns–and their scaled siblings–are inter-species hybrids. 

 

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As most of us are aware, Tesseras don’t have a standard belly pattern.  In fact, the only standard in this realm is that each can have one of hundreds of different belly pattern schemes, ranging from no pattern at all, to every conceivable variation of color and pattern?  This Caramel Tessera demonstrates a somewhat connective aggregation of the base colors of Caramels; black and gold.  As if all of the usual belly checkering were fused together, to form a mid ventral stripe?

 

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This odd Tessera hatched (parentage dark Tessera X eXtreme Reverse Okeetee) on March 14th, so in about three weeks (after at least three consecutive meals of f/t pinky mice) I’ll find out if someone out there needs him more than me.  Ahuuummm, cough, wink; via putting a price on him that encourages people to leave him right here at SMR?  lol.  Seriously, everything I have is for sale, but in the case of unique corns like this one, I’m happy when some of them don’t sell.  This male should be an amazing photo op at maturity?  Oh yeah, also a breeder that could produce more like himself? . . .

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This male 2018 Striped Honey (Sunkissed Caramel) corn snake is currently 20″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Just because none of his parents or other relatives have produced any Star-Gazer’s mutants in the 13+ years I’ve been breeding this familial line does not mean this one cannot be a carrier.  SG is not a disease, but a gene mutation that is inherited from snakes that are either homozygotes of SG (exhibiting the nasty neurological issues from SG) or heterozygotes (exhibiting NO markers for the gene mutation).  His $115.00 usd price includes