Snake of the Day 04-26-17

Show & $ell

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This 2016 20″ female Scaleless eXtreme Okeetee is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed medium-pinky mice.  She was only recently available, as the customer for whom I was holding her decided not to get her.  Her $660.00 USD price includes     Her belly scute pattern is highly variable.  Her father has an almost completely and evenly bifurcated belly scale print, but this female demonstrates an other-worldly belly scale arrangement that exhibits just about all of the different belly scalation we see in Scaleless corns. 

Bonus pic 

Snake of the Day 04-27-17

Show & Tell

Just hours after hatching, this beautiful Pied-sided (P/S) Bloodred corn snake demonstrates what a large yolk she absorbed before leaving her egg (elongated stomach distension that dramatizes the largely color-less laterals in most of the last half of her body). Yes, she will get much redder with maturity.  Both parents are very richly red colored.   Bonus pic

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Same snake in different pose.  Notice the heart (sub-dermal dark spot 1/3-1/4 back from the head)?  In just a few weeks, as muscles get greater density, the heart will be barely visible, but those of you out there who have had pale hatchling corns (and even some adults) will attest to have seen the hearts beating in the likes of Snows, Butters, Blizzards, hypos, etc..

 

 

Snake of the Day 04-28-17

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Thank you, Kevin, for this awesome 2016 female Blonde phase Trans-pecos Ratsnake (Bogertophis subocularis).  The Blonde pattern mutation in this species was the first of only a few that are currently demonstrated in this species. 

Snake of the Day 05-15-17

FlashBack

2015 photograph of an adult Scaleless Sunkissed & Hypo corn snake.  Second pic is from 2012 when I first acquired him.    

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The U.S. dollar bill is in the picture serves as a color reference for this 2012 hatchling Scaleless Hypo & Sunkissed corn. 

 

Snake of the Day 05-01-17

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Not readily distinguishable from some of the Cayenne Fires, this homozygote (Super) Sunglow Motley corn snake is an adult female that I gratefully re-acquired from a customer who purchased her as a hatchling in 2014.  Thank you, Joy.  I love her.  Some could argue that her high expression of red–from the Red Factor gene mutation–perhaps detracts from the beautiful pattern of most SMR Sunglow Motleys?  While I confess that I miss not seeing overt pattern on this one, I’m much more interested in seeing how much red we can add to Sunglow Motleys, so this beautiful female will be active in breeding projects here next year.  You did a GREAT job of raising her, Joy.