Snake of the Day 04-16-17

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This 2016 female Salmon Snow Motley has a great deal of Coral coloration for her age and gender. Males generally have only this much color for this morph? She is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice. Her $225.00 USD price includes    

Snake of the Day 04-17-17

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This 2016 male Snow Tessera is actually a Visual-het Salmon mutant (possessing only one of the paired gene copies to make Snows pink- or coral-colored). Pairing this Snow with another visual-het Salmon or with a Salmon homozygote will render some heavily coral- or pink-colored Snow Tesseras. He is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice. His $245.00 USD price includes      Bonus Pic

Snake of the Day 04-23-17aaa

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Confused little 2016 Scaleless corn snake.  This pic was taken many hours after she ate a frozen/thawed pinky mouse, but she apparently still smelled/tasted the residual smell of that pinky, enough to be sure she was going to wait a very long time to kill the second mouse of the DAY.  She had a death lock on part of her own body, and every time I touched her anywhere, she tightened her grip, just waiting for her alleged prey’s heart to stop?  Fortunately, she wasn’t constricting vital viscera enough to kill herself.  I finally ran some cool water on her and she abandoned her mis-perceived dessert.

Snake of the Day 04-20-17

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This 2016 Buckskin Okeetee corn snake could very well qualify as a Miami Okeetee at maturity, but since both of her parents were Buckskin Okeetees, she’ll hold that morph title for now.  So far, too much yellow for a good Miami phase.  Note that both Buckskin and Miami phases/morphs in our hobby are named for their satisfaction of the loose color standard.  No gene mutation is responsible for the look of either.  Only polygenetics (interactions between common genes).  No, she’s not obviously shy.  She smelled the last snake I’d photographed in that very spot.  Since all of our snakes are, of course, individually housed, they seem to relish anything NEW that they smell?

Snake of the Day 03-22-17

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“Halo” Snow Corns were named for their thin greenish/yellowish blotch borders.  Just like so many (? all ?) corn snakes that transform from one look as a hatchling to a sometimes dramatically different look when mature, when these first hatch they barely demonstrate any yellow or green around their markings, and most look like classic Snows for several weeks or months after hatching.  Anyone who bought Snow corns from us in the past few months should take a close look at them, since I sold all of the siblings of this snake before they were old enough to exhibit any yellow or green?

Snake of the Day 04-05-17

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2017 Scaleless Anery Corn Snake engulfing a frozen/thawed 2-DAY-old pinky mouse. Nom, nom, nommmnnmmnnnmmmnnm. 

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.

Snake of the Day 03-23-17

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This 19″ female 2016 Striped corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice and she’s het for Anery since her parents were a Striped corn bred to a Striped Anery Tessera.  Her $125.00 price includes     

 

Snake of the Day 03-24-17

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This 17″ female 2016 Amel Tessera corn snake is het for Lavender, and is currently eating frozen/thawed small or medium pinky mice.  Her $315.00 price includes     BTW, the mother of this snake is David Partington’s famous Paradox Ultramel Lavender, and so far, not one of the Lavenders from that female has been kinked. 

Snake of the Day 03-25-17

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This 20″ male 2016 RedCoat Lavender corn snake was produced by Catherine Turley.  He is 50% pos-het for Anery, and one of his perents had Strawberry in its family tree.  Yes, you see a “zaggy” kinked tail, but it’s relegated to the part of the tail that would not hinder reproduction.  Via sight and palpation I could not feel any other kinks or deformities in the spine, but I stop short of guaranteeing there aren’t any.  His $335.00 price includes