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The parents of this 12″ 2017 male Scaleless corn snake are a normally colored eXtreme Okeetee that is het for Scaleless and a beautiful Scaleless eXtere Okeetee.  He’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  His $595.00 USD price includes    

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) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids.

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This 33″ female Terrazzo is het for Lava AND Charcoal. She is currently eating frozen/thawed hopper mice. If she doesn’t sell in a few weeks, we’ll keep her as a 2018 breeder (one way of letting you know that I expect her to easily be breeding size next season). Her $425.00 USD price includes   

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Gravid Bloodred corn snake.  The term OLD-SCHOOL is abused in our hobby.  In the first decade (or two) of having Bloodreds in the hobby, they were naturally called simply “Bloodreds”.  The term OLD SCHOOL has since been applied to Bloodreds that lack the red color saturation and luster that most modern Bloodreds possess.  Factually, most of the original Bloodreds had an ontogenetic expression of longitudinal dark stripes that they developed after a few years of maturity.  The diffusion of many was so good that some of those were dark red corns that exhibited only their almost-black dorso-lateral longitudinal stripes–and little or no other markings above their bellies. Back then, many wondered if some of the Landrace Bloodreds perhaps had some Yellow Ratsnake blood in them?  I never subscribed to that theory, but was (and still am) puzzled by the development of those longitudinal stripes at maturity?

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Not necessarily an absolute phenotypic distinction between a Kansas Emory’s Ratsnake (darker of the two) and a Southwest Texas Emory’s Ratsnake, this picture does demonstrate how variable this species is from just north of Kansas to Mexico..

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 As I have stated several times in the past, RF usually causes not only an overall pink wash, but almost always turns otherwise black blotches to brown on males (the opposite of virtually all females that maintain their black markings).  ToDAY’s featured corn is actually a female, so I’m pleased that the Red Factor expression is so strong, but in opposition to most males with this genotype, females usually maintain their black blotches.  This surely isn’t an impact from the RF mutation, since Aneries are largely gender dimorphic (males and females have a predominantly different phenotype). See pic 2 of this daily feature for a demonstration of the color distinction between adult Anery males and females.  

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Let’s just say that toDAY’s SOTD feature is only a PEWTER (Diffused Charcoal–aka: Charcoal Bloodred) corn snake.  This particular one could be unique in the world, but I won’t know for another few years, after breeding trials.  I’m confident she possesses a new corn snake gene mutation.  Sorry for the “tease” but if this project reaches fruition–and has the outcome I expect–you’ll recall that I hinted to it on June 16, 2017.  No, it’s not the yellow throat. 

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The parents of this 13″ 2017 aberrant female Scaleless corn snake are both het for Scaleless and Sunglow Motley.  Therefore, her colors should saturate with maturity, like most corns in the hobby toDAY?  She’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  Her $595.00 USD price includes     

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) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids. 

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The parents of this 12″ 2017 aberrant male Scaleless Okeetee corn snake are both eXtreme Okeetees, so his colors will be dramatically deepen through maturity.  He’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  His $595.00 USD price includes    

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) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids.

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2017 12″ female Blizzard Tessera for sale.  She’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  Her $195.00 USD price includes     

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This 2016 male Honey Motley corn snake is now 28″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.   His $185.00 USD price includes