A couple of 2017 Scaleless corn snake hold-backs.
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.
This male Gray Ratsnake (Pantherophis spiloides) LEMON mutant produced by TONY DONGARRA shows a little more color than the female featured on Jan. 8, 2018.
When I was staging this Scaleless Corn Snake for a photograph, I noted the “air bubble” a little behind her head, between skin generations–denoting that she was about to slough her old skin. After shooting her individually, I decided to shoot a Scaleless Tessera with her, going for the “twofur” (two snakes in the same SOTD feature).
Today, we’re showing you some (certainly not ALL) variety in this corn snake morph. The only known gene mutation in this morph is Amelanistic (aka: albino), so what distinguishes these from classic Amel corns–AND other Amel morphs–is the result of polygenetics (interactions between genes–mostly non-mutated genes) and selective-breeding toward the respective look within this morph. Tempting to call this a Candy Cane, it not only has overt blotch margins–unlike virtually all Candy Canes–but the blotch margins also contrast with the difficult-to-reproduce white scales in the ground color body zone.
Also, this one is selectively bred from Reverse Okeetees right here at South Mountain (unlike any of the Candy Canes we used to produce).
Pictured above are a SUPER (Homozygote) Salmon Snow corn snake, possessing both of the paired gene copies for the dominant mutation, Red Factor, with a Salmon Snow Tessera (only heterozygous for RF), possessing only one of the paired RF gene copies (expressing about half of the vibrant coral coloration of the homozygote). Technically, both are homozygotes of Amel and Anery, of course, but only the non-Tessera in this picture is a homozygote for the RF gene mutation.
2018 will be the first year I’ll be pairing Salmon Snow Tesseras like these to het and homo Salmon Snow-types.
Known in our hobby as a Blue Motley, the three gene mutations in this morph are Anery, Motley, and Dilute. The dilute mutation–when in conjunction with the Anery mutation–renders the predominant silvery/blue hues. Not unlike Blue Persian and Blue Siamese cats that are perceived by many to be more gray than blue, this morph of corn snake has many different color renderings that fall in and out of what most consider to be “blue”.
An exceptionally colorful sub-adult RedCoat Lava corn snake.
Young adult Striped Bloodred corn snake.
This 36″ female 2015 Lava, Het Caramel corn produced by my good friend, David Partington is also possibly-het Amel.
Pictorial update of Catherine Turley hatchlings; eXtreme Sunkissed Okeetee (pic left) and Ultramel Sunkissed Okeetee (pic right).
