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Lucky shot? It’s not uncommon for me to catch two snakes tongue-flicking at the same time when they are in a pic with many snakes, but for both of the only two in a pic to be flicking in unison is very uncommon for me. Parents of both these Scaleless corns were eXtreme Okeetees het for Scaleless, so these will be very colorful when mature.
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This 2016 male Ultramel Tessera corn snake is now 18″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice (as you can see from the lump in his belly). He is also het for Lavender. His $185.00 USD price includes
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Two 2017 Sunkissed corns that hatched a few weeks ago. No, I don’t feed two snakes in the same cage, but 10 minutes after offering both of these Sunkissed corns new-born pinkies, the Sunkissed Tessera was still wrangling his because he decided to eat it rump first (generally called breach-feeding). Since I could see it would be a little longer for him to swallow this pinky, I photographed him next to the brother who just finished his first meal.
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Seems like my camera just can’t resist shooting one or two of these that I find in the yard each year? A 2016 wild hatchling Eastern Black Neck Garter Snake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis ocellatus) was on the sidewalk on May 15, 2017, so I stole about 20 minutes of his life to snap a few pix.
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2017 13″ female Pied-sided Bloodred corn snake for sale. She’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice. Some of you are aware that the reason I named these Pied-sided (aka: p/s) instead of Pie-bald, Pied, or White-sided was because I knew that at least gene mutations are currently missing in the corn snake hobby are White-sided and Pied. Both have been demonstrated in many other serpent species, so it’s a foregone conclusion that they WILL be demonstrated in corns. Not IF but WHEN. I didn’t want to ruin either of those future discoveries by using the most applicable names Pied or White-sided, since the hallmark of this mutation is that the white is mostly relegated to the sides, and such white patches are generally disconnected and random in lateral zones. One name I toyed with when I first hatched these was “Red-sided” since regardless of how much and where the white patches are exhibited, they all had otherwise shockingly RED sides. The dorsal markings on toDAY’s featured SOTD will greatly diffuse and will be deeply red at maturity. The lateral zones below the dorso-lateral demarcation line between longitudinal pattern zoness will also be solidly red, except where the white is showing now. When I first named this morph I was tempted to call them Red-sided Bloodreds, but it was somewhat of a redundant name. Some pied-sided Bloodreds have no lateral white at all, but their resemblance to p/s Bloodreds is obvious, in the realm of the shockingly stark red sides. Her $195.00 USD price includes to any of the lower-48 United States because she is what we consider a low-expression p/s Bloodred. Medium- and High-whites are considerably more rare in the hobby and consequently more expensive. . . . S O L D
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This Scaleless Striped Caramel Corn Snake hatched in April. After a few more meals, we’ll decide to keep or sell it. Bonus pic
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Hatched on May 10th, these 2017 hatchlings are from parents, Striped corn, het Amel Honey and Striped Honey, het Amel. The snakes with the bold dorsal SPOTS are actually Striped mutants, though they do not demonstrate classic striping. We don’t precisely know why some Striped mutants do this, but if you breed ones like these to visually striped corn snake mutants, you will usually get some classically striped mutants, some that have no striping (but bold dorsal markings like toDAY’s featured corns) and some with both? Surely, the distinction between these two Striped geme mutation phenotypes is the result of an additional gene mutation? Beyond the commonality of some Striped mutants demonstrating little or no striping, Sunkissed is famous for the collateral affect of altering traditional Motley or Striped gene expression. Bonus pic
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2017–12″ female Scaleless Amel corn snake for sale. She’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice. Her $965.00 USD price includes free Bonus pic.
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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A brood of corns that were chillin-out under a water bowl last week. I usually keep newly hatched corns in their incubation boxes since the damp vermiculite helps keep them super-hydrated–in preparation for sloughing their first obsolete skin generation–but I prematurely moved these onto aspen before their first sheds. They still mass together so as to retain moisture better. From an Ultramel, Het Blizzard and Charcoal bred to the RedFactor Blizzard, you are seeing some Blizzards, Ultramel Charcoals, Ultramels and Amels. After their first shed and a few meals, they will be offered for sale on our web site.
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I only THOUGHT I’d seen great striping on some of the Scaleless Striped Tessera, but this one really takes the blue ribbon. Just look at that tail striping and the stark absence of lateral tessellation? How amazing will this one look as an adult? If I hatch one more like it, I’ll sell one of them, but I’m really keen on seeing this on in adult form. BTW, both parents are Tesseras, so there’s an outside chance (super rare, actually) that this one could be a Tessera homozygote? Fingers crossed. Bonus pic
