Category: SOTD

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Thank you, Travis and John (TRAVIS WHISLER REPTILES) for this beautiful 2017 LEMON (Hypo Sunkissed Caramel) corn snake that is het for Amel.  I can’t wait to see the yellow on this snake, when mature.  

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I probably should have published these separately, so resolution would be better, but for comparison, I stacked them in the same pic.  The top snake, owned by Catherine Turley, is a stunning Caramel Bloodred from Key stock.  The bottom snake is a SMR low-white P/S Bloodred we produced several years ago, also from Key stock.  If I recall who bought this gem from us, I’ll request a current pic.  BTW, the scant p/s expression on this snake (barely shown in this pic) did not derive from any of the hobby Pied-sided mutations.  It just spontaneously cropped up in this line, from parents that had never been bred to any of our P/S Bloodred mutants.  What these two snakes demonstrate is the inherent phenotypic value of breeding some of our common corn snake mutations to good Key corns; extreme diffusion of markings?

This male Super Salmon Snow corn snake shows promise of being quite the show-off when mature.  How much deeper can the colors get on Coral Snow types??  This is a sub-2-yr-old, so colors are not finished saturating. 

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2018 corn snake eggs from parents eXtreme Okeetee and Caramel, both het Scaleless and more.  They were laid on Christmas Day, 2017, and we anticipate first pip on February 22nd.  Four clutches of eggs are slated to begin hatching on that date, but I see that a few clutches should pip sooner.  Looks like a few were laid on December 23, 2017.  

Three 2016 Scaleless Corn Snakes when they were a few weeks old.  More of these are expected to hatch in the next four to six weeks.  

note:  ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including SCALED corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation–aka Het Scaleless) are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake).  Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled siblings) are inter-species hybrids.

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2015 male Cherry Amel corn snake with a 2016 High-white Reverse Okeetee–for color reference.  This HOMOZYGOTE male Cherry Amel will be mature enough to breed this year, so I plan to keep him busy later this Spring.   

This 2016 Scaleless Amel corn snake demonstrates a huge volume of scales, though they are random, small and irregularly shaped, compared to those of classically scaled corns.  Look at the zone of scales on the “jaws”.  

note:  ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including SCALED corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation–aka Het Scaleless) are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake).  Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled siblings) are inter-species hybrids.   

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Two sub-adult Palmetto corn snakes, circa 2014.  Go to FaceBook page TRAVIS WHISLER REPTILES for availability of hatchlings.

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This 2016 male Cinder Tessera. 

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Slightly yellow, compared to it’s clutch mates, this egg hatched without complications last year (the concavities filling out as soon as the eggs were set up in damp vermiculite).  The demonstration here, of course, is that the embryo was alive and growing.