Category: SOTD

This 2016 female eXtreme Okeetee Tessera (possibly het for Amel) will have more black as adult than most Tesseras in the hobby toDAY. She is 23″ long and eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice.

This 15″ male 2017 male Amel Sunkissed Motley is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.

Parents of this 2015 male Corn Snake are a Scaleless eXtreme Okeetee and a Hurricane Lavender Motley.  He is currently 36″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice. 

This 15″ female 2017 Amel Tessera Sunkissed Motley is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.

This 2016 female eXtreme Okeetee Tessera (possibly het Amel) will have more black as an adult than most Tesseras in the hobby toDAY. She is 26″ long and eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. 

Thank you, Travis Whisler and John Stolz for this amazing corn.  Viewers may have trouble believing it, but this is an Anery Tessera from a Strawberry parent.  WHERE’S THE BLACK??  The father is a Strawberry Anery Blood and the mother is an Ultramel Anery Tessera Het Strawberry.  The Strawberry line is descended from stock acquired from Chuck Pretzel and Connie Hurley, so I’m delighted to finally get some Strawberry stock that I KNOW is genuinely Strawberry, VS., one of the other red-modifying gene mutations.  Of course, Jim Stelpflug is the discoverer of the Strawberry mutation (wow, Jim).  Thanks, Jim, Mitch, Travis, and John for this rare opportunity. 

Another Xtreme Okeetee laying eggs on January 10, 2018.  This is her first year laying eggs.  She—and her 2018 mate—are het for Scaleless. 

This 2013 hatchling Amel Palmetto corn snake was a year-old in this picture.  I think Travis and John still have some 2017 hatchlings of these for sale, but more will be available as 2018 hatchlings this Spring or Summer.

Photographed while soaking in a clear deli cup of water in 2017, is a Scaleless Reverse Okeetee corn snake.  The egg tooth is still slightly visible at the snout, indicating that this snake had been out of its egg for less than 24 hours.  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.

Upon searching archived image files for examples of carotenoid exhibition in corns, I came across this picture of a High-white Reverse Okeetee that we featured in 2016.  Does this snake not beg the question, “is the carotenoid renderings relegated to the upper dermal layers?”?  Breeding one to a Scaleless “corn” is surely the only way to know where the carotenoid renderings reside