Category: SOTD

Snake of the Day 08-24-17

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Buuuuuuuurrrrrpppppppp, large meal just consumed! This 2017 female Snow Tessera corn snake is currently 11″ long, eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice, BUT if you don’t have 1-DAY-old f/t pinkies, better pass on getting this gem.  She’s never refused a 1-DAY-old f/t pinky, but she could have trouble with something larger, if her new cage temp zones were not ideal?  Her $225.00 USD price includes   

Snake of the Day 09-08-17

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This 29″ male 2016 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.  His parents were a Tessera bred to a Sunkissed Scaleless so he is het for Sunkissed Scaleless.  $275.00 plus $39.00   

Snake of the Day 08-23-17

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You may recall seeing this Cinder Tessera features in October, 2015 when he was a hatchling (pic #2)?  Except for size, he has changed very little (unlike most corns that look vastly different from hatchling to adult).    Bonus pic . . .

Snake of the Day 09-09-17

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Certainly not all of the morphs in the CARAMEL COMPLEX, here are six Tessera mutants with the base color gene mutation, CARAMEL. Butter Tessera, Caramel Tessera, Gold Dust Tessera, Honey Tessera, Saffron Tessera, and Ultramel Tessera. Can you deduce who’s who?

Snake of the Day 08-09-17

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Have you ever mixed different colors of paint to render an aggregate target color?  You add a little of one color to another, toward the logic, “you can always add more, but once there, you cannot remove too much, once the target color is exceeded”.  When selectively breeding animals for a desired appearance, the paint-mixing advice doesn’t really apply, so when we set out to make an extreme version of Reverse Okeetees over 15 years ago (the only mutation being Amelanistic) we picked the most extreme examples from each generation to breed to one another OR bred the most desirable ones to unrelated examples that were close to our color and pattern goals? 
Details & Bonus pics . . .

Snake of the Day 08-10-17

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Produced by Catherine Turley, this 24″ female 2016 Buf Tessera corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky or small fuzzy mice. She is het for Amel and possibly het for Hypo. Her $235.00 USD price includes    

Snake of the Day 08-12-17

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A refreshingly solid white ground zone color is slightly marred by a blush of orange.  As an adult this High-white Reverse Okeetee should have a strikingly red on white pattern scheme, but the white is likely to be slightly tainted via the faint orange seen in these pictures.  The red should remain as crisp and deep as it is now?
Bonus pic . . .