Category: SOTD

Snake of the Day 03-26-17

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Perhaps nothing nurtures the discipline of patience like waiting on eggs to hatch.  I find the anticipation exhilarating.

There won’t be many (if any) surprises hiding in these eggs, but certainly treasures.  This female Bloodred (?Diffused Masque?) is one I acquired from a South African corn snake breeder almost a decade ago.  When I pair her with a SA Cayenne Fire, I always get stunning Bloodreds and Canenne Fires.  Below are two 2014 babies from this annual pairing.  Don’t ask why one of them has some ventro-lateral white?  I’ve never bred any P/S Bloodreds with toDAY’s SOTD featured adult female. 

Snake of the Day 03-27-17

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I haven’t put a male with this female Ultramel Motley in several years, but decided to this year.  I bred her to a Butter Motley Het Sunkissed (therefore, het Honey) because the parents of toDAY’s SOTD feature were a Gold Dust Motley and a Striped Amel Het Charcoal (therefore, het Blizzard).  In 60 DAYs we’ll at least have some Gold Dusts and perhaps a few other morph compounds. 

Snake of the Day 03-28-17

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Most of you know that I don’t often produce Ultramels, but I pulled this gal off the bench for this year’s game.  She’s a stunning Ultramel Het Blizzard produced by John Finsterwald (Zorro).  Don’t her colors remind you of some Strawberry mutants, but she has none of that blood in her.  Not often, but sometimes corn snake eggs are laid in pearl string fashion; with connective shelling tissue between each egg (see pic below)?  Had I the patience of a palentologist or brain surgeon (NEVER) I’d have painstakingly and gently removed these eggs from the nest box so as to keep them all connected, but . . . .   

John’s web site is Pike’s Peak Reptiles S

Snake of the Day 03-29-17

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I would say that at this stage of development, all of the 2016 F1 out-crosses from a Cherry Amel x Banded Fluorescent are coloring-up exceedingly red.  They already surpass what their Banded Fluorescent mother looked like at this age (pic 3 below as adult), but then she does not possess the Cherry gene mutation.  As hatchlings, all of our red-modified Amel corns are rather boring in the color department for the first few months of their lives.  These two sub-yearlings are starting to show-off their color potential, demonstrating that they AND the products of their parents marriage will be something new in the realm of red albino (Amel) corns (even beyond being a Fluorescent and beyond being a Cherry).  Our male Cherry corn is the father, and the mother is a red Fluorescent (largest snake in pic 2 below is a sub-adult Cherry Amel mutant), both of which we’ve shared with you in pictures for a couple of years now.  We may only sell two or three of these gems next year, but since there is no adult model for this genetic combination, the only promise we can make is that they will be remarkably red as adults.   PICs of her parents

Snake of the Day 04-01-17

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Two adult Snow corns with more yellow than most Snows.  The one on the left was featured on SMR FaceBook page and web site, www.corn snake.NET on March 5th with her eggs, but the other adult female Snow in toDAY’s photograph was recently bred on March 19th. Both were bred to Scaleless types, but the paler of the two was bred to a homozygote (Visual) Scaleless Sunkissed Hypo mutant, so all this year’s babies from her will be het for Amel, Anery, Scaleless, Sunkissed and Hypo.  The obvious goal of those pairings is to see how much of the yellow will be evident in Scaleless Snows.

Snake of the Day 03-19-17

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Eggs laid last week by this female Buckskin Okeetee.  Her markings are actually brighter red than this pic rendered.  These babies–and more from other females–will be offered for sale in a little over two months, after they are regularly feeding on frozen/thawed mouse pinkies.