Category: SOTD

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2017 hatchling Scaleless Caramel corn snake.  The gold flecking is fragments of the gold vermiculite used in incubation. This one will obviously begin showing gold or yellow colors in a few weeks or months.   

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2017 hatchling Sunkissed corn snake (produced via het Scaleless parents).  

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This photograph from last weeks shows a female Red Coat Lava laying eggs.  We will begin selling the snakes in these eggs in about 75 DAYs, after they have demonstrated reliable frozen/thawed pinky mice feeding.   

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Not for sale, this 2016 Scaleless Butter Corn Snake now demonstrates notably more yellow than she did when she hatched a year ago.  From seeing thousands of snakes through the lens of my camera, I often assign informal labels to their respective poses.  I call this one Pretzel Pose. A few of them, over the years, actually managed to form knots while positioning themselves for photographs.  

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 2017 Scaleless corn snake (from het Scaleless Sunglow Motley parentage) will be for sale in a couple of weeks, after demonstration of appetite and digestion.    

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.  Bonus pic

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Hours old at the time of these pics yesterDAY, April 14th, I ?THINK? this 2017 Striped Scaleless corn is also a Caramel, based on the precious few head scales being the color of Scaleless Caramels I’ve hatched in the past AND from the slightest exhibition of gold in the irises of the eyes, but I won’t know for sure until this one has matured for a few months?  Both parents were from the pairings of a Scaleless male to Scaled Striped Butter female corns.  Bonus pic

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This 28″ female 2015 Lava, Het Caramel corn produced by my good friend, David Partington is also possibly-het Amel.  Her $245.00 price includes     S O L D

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Many of you would impulsively call this a Motley at first glance, but one look at the belly would change your minds (pic 2)?  The phenotype (appearance) of this 2017 corn snake–just six hours old–is wild-type (not unlike one you could find in their wild natural habitat).  The primary feature that distinguishes a Motley mutant from a non-Motley corn is not the “chain” of circles down the back–since even non-Motleys like this one can have many dorsal circles between markings–but the general lack of belly checkering.  Lately, from breeding Motleys into other color and pattern mutations, we occasionally see SOME belly checkering on the likes of SOME Lavender and Caramel mutants, but virtually never more than a few isolated checkered belly pattern zones.  I dare say that you would not see more than 5% of the belly demonstrating any checkering at all on those hobby-new exceptions VS. the tried and true visual standard for Motley pattern mutants of ZERO belly checkering?  Bonus pic

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THIS SNAKE LISTING IS ONLY for the 23″ male 2015 Terrazzo.  Het for Charcoal AND Lava, he is currently eating frozen/thawed large fuzzy mice.    His $385.00 price includes     The listing for the 28″ male will be published tomorrow, April 9, 2017.

 

Photo dramatization:  23″ Orange colored snake is toDAY’s featured Snake Of The Day.  NOT the darker “dithered” 28″ snake.

 

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These Scaleless corns must have hatched three DAYs (or so) ago.  They were on the rack that included eggs that were scheduled to hatch next week, so they escaped my attention for a few DAYs.  These six Scaleless corns and 12 Scaled corns are from parents that are both common corns, het for Scaleless Sunglow Motley.  It appears that at least two of them inherited a copy of the Red Factor gene mutation, evidenced by their extra-orange coloration (one has a deeply orange head and neck–center bottom of pic).  The Motley on the far right has an extremely elongated neucal (neck) dorsal ground zone between markings, reminiscent of elongated markings common in Scaleless Tesseras, but Tessera haa never been a branch of this family tree.   Bonus pic