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Owned by Catherine Turley, this stunning Miami Okeetee adult female was bred to a similar (but not as remarkable) male on March 19th. We don’t like to count our snakes before they hatch, but we will have eggs from her in about six weeks.

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This 18″ male 2016 Amel Buf Okeetee Corn snake (produced by Catherine Turley) is currently eating frozen/thawed small or medium pinky mice.    He is het for Motley or Stripe (maybe both) and 50% pos-het (possibly het) for Hypo.  His $275.00 price includes    
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Color update on one of the 2015 Cherry Amel Tessera corn snake compound mutants.  Photographed on the green side of a U.S. dollar for color reference, this sub-2-year-old demonstrates an embarrassment of red for its age, but from seeing how much more red it is at THIS age–more-so than other red-modifiers–AND via how long it takes other red-modifying genes to manifest–I’m confident that there is still more–and perhaps deeper–reds in its future?  I recall selling only one of these to a special friend, but next year, I will surely have enough of these to sell at large?  What’s tantalizingly significant about that statement is that toDAY’s featured corn SHOULD be a Visual-het.  That historically promises that the next generation of breeding two of these together should demonstrate an additional exaggeration of red (if that’s even possible) in some of the F2s, since some of those will be homozygotes of the Cherry mutation (via possessing both of the paired Cherry gene copies)?  Ps, some of the next generation COULD also be Tessera homozygotes (aka: Super Tesseras).  That is a rare potential, but an exciting one since Super Tesseras produce 100% Tesseras when bred to ANY corn snake morph or mutation.  

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This 21″ male 2016 Striped corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice and he’s het for Butter (Amel and Caramel) since his parents were a Striped corn bred to a Striped Butter.  His $95.00 price includes    

 

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Color comparison between two Adult female Amels; a homozygote (aka: Super) Cherry mutant (left in pic) and a Visual-het Cherry (right in pic) the latter of which demonstrates only a portion of the extra red this mutation expresses in homozygosity.  The Cherry mutation is believed to have the mode of inheritance that is dominant to wild-type (perhaps incompletely-dominant?).  Some of you out there may get excited that you could have a HET Cherry, because you have a corn that resembles the snake on the right.  We don’t suggest that the Het expression of this mutation is unique.  I’ve had many corns that had a color exhibition like toDAY’s featured HET Cherry Amel, but were not Cherry mutants?  Ps, the flash in the Southwest corner of my shooting theater over-diffused, so that’s why the Super Cherry Amel is less flash lit. 

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This 17″ male 2016 Extreme Okeetee (het for Scaleless) is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.   One of his parents was a Scaleless corn, so he is het for Scaleless.  His $325.00 price includes     

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 18″ female 2016 Buckskin Okeetee is currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  Her $165.00 price includes     

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Laid in February (last month) these eggs are from a het Scaleless “corn” that exhibits the “throw-back” coloration of their Emory’s Ratsnake ancestry?  All Scaleless “corns” in the hobby toDAY derive from the original pairing that rendered the first Scaleless “snake” from the inter-species crossing of Emory’s Ratsnake, Pantherophis emoryi X Cornsnake Pantherophis guttatus.  Therefore, all Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY are descendants of an Emory’s Ratsnake Pantherophis emoryi  via the inter-species paring of that first Ratsnake Pantherophis emoryi X Cornsnake Pantherophis guttatus marriage.  Being relatively few generations since then, we occasionally see “corns” with a distinctly gray ground coloration, not unlike most Emory’s Ratsnakes (aka: Great Plains Ratsnakes), and decidedly UNlike most wild-type corns (except for some Miami locality and Miami Phase corns found in the extreme Southeastern regions of their Natural U.S. habitat). Next year I hope to breed this female to a wild-type Emory’s Ratsnake to eventually create Scaleless snakes that have olive green markings on a gray background (essentially Scaleless Emory’s Ratsnakes that will, of course, be just as inter-species hybrid as toDAY’s Scaleless corns).  Green markings are uncommon in SOME parts of the Emory’s Ratsnake’s Natural range in the wild, but in my decades of collecting Emory’s Ratsnakes in at least eight states of the U.S., I’ve seen many more of them with green markings than brown.   S

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Cherry Amel corn snake with her eggs that she laid a week ago.  The sire of this brood (pictured below) is a Super Salmon Snow, so the babies should be mostly (if completely) RF Amels that should have exceptionally deep reds (if my theory of stacking red with two red-modifying genes proves out)? 

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This 20″ female 2016 eXtreme Reverse Okeetee Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  Her $285.00 price includes