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2017 Scaleless Corn Snakes.  LEFT is a Scaleless Extreme Okeetee from two adult hets for Scaleless and Okeetee and RIGHT is a Scaleless Red Factor corn from two corns het for Scaleless and Sunglow Motley. 
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3-week old Snow ZagTec, sister to the Anery male of SOTD 08-06-17. She is 13″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. I call these ZAGTEC but some call them “Wide-striped” corns. Her $125.00 price includes   

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This 13″ 2017 female Saffron Motley (Sunkissed Butter Motley) is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Her $185.00 price includes    

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Two 2047 Scaleless Amelanistic corn snakes.  The one on the LEFT in this picture is about one to two months older than the other and was about as pale as the one on the RIGHT when it first hatched.  The LEFT snake in this pic was sold last week and the other will be listed for sale in a week or so.  Both have RedFactor ancestors, and should intensify in color with age, but even without that red-modifier (RedFactor Gene Mutation) they will both get richer colors as they mature. 

 

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A few DAYs ago a customer asked me to show him the visual transformation from hatchling-to-adult in Cayenne Fires, so I’ll share the comparative pic that I showed him.  

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This aberrant 2017 female Tessera corn snake is currently 12″+ long, eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  She is possibly het for Scaleless since both of her parents are het Scaleless (toDAY’s SOTD had several Scaleless siblings this year).  Her $235.00 USD price includes    

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These  PROJECT Anery and Anery Tessera corn snakes are from parents, Sunkissed Anery and high-yellow Ultramel Anery Tessera so the double-mutant Anery Tessera progeny of this pairing are het for Sunkissed and either Ultra OR AMEL.  I italicized OR AMEL because IF the mother of this year’s progeny is an Ultra Anery, all of the babies from this pairing will be het for Ultra and Sunkissed.  If–as labeled on her cage–the mother (pic’d below) is an Ultramel Anery Tessera, half of the progeny will inherit one copy of Amel and the other half will inherit one copy of Ultra, BUT there is no way to distinguish between them.  See details of this compound morph project HERE.  The lower Ultramel Anery already demonstrates lots of yellow, like it’s Ultra-type Anery Tessera mother, so I think that male will be very heavily yellow (like Mom)?  The other Tessera AND the non-Tessera Anery demonstrate Hurricane-type pattern, so the non-Tessera will surely mature to be a beautiful Okeetee Tessera, with dark black saddle margins?   Parent Pics . . .

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This aberrant 2017 female Tessera corn snake is currently 15″ long, eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  She is possibly het for Scaleless since both of her parents are het Scaleless (toDAY’s SOTD had several Scaleless siblings this year).  Her $235.00 USD price includes    

FLASHBACK S.O.T.D. from April 4, 2014

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Lower-left inset pic shows an enlargement of a body zone of this Scaleless Extreme Okeetee featuring a few random small and atypically-shaped scales, and wrinkled skin.

So far, only one of our adult Scaleless corns requires a damp moss nest box prior to shedding.  All the others slough their skins in one or two pieces without any assistance or cage accessories.  We have never misted their cages or otherwise made any attempt to increase ambient cage humidity.  

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A long term project at South Mountain has been to alter classic corn snake markings into bands, toward the goal of annulated (ringed) corn snakes. Here are two examples (pic 1 and 2) of amelanistics that are getting closer to our goals; Banded Fluorescent and Banded High-white Reverse Okeetee. Pic 3 toDAY is borrowed from Glen Brooksi showing one of his stunning Banded Fluorescent corns. Congratulations, Glen. Bonus pic . . .