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This 2016 male Amel Tessera corn snake is currently 29″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.  He is 66.6% possibly-het Scaleless, since both of his parents were het for Scaleless.  His $275.00 USD price includes    

 

 

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Eggs laid last week by this female Amel, Het Cinder (therefore, Het Peppermint).  The father of these eggs is a Buttermint (Caramel Amel Cinder).

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Extreme Okeetee with her eggs last week. 

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This 2016 male corn snake is currently 27″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  He is 66.6% possibly-het Amel, since both of his parents were het for Amel.  His $195.00 USD price includes     

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Laid yesterDAY on Valentine’s Day, 18 beautiful eggs from two corns het for Scaleless Sunglow Motley.  Just getting started, this is one of six clutches of 2017 eggs in incubation now.  More added to this inventory daily for the next few weeks.  The second of three waves of adult female corns will begin laying in roughly two more months.  

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This 29″ male 2016 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice.  His parents were a Tessera bred to a Sunkissed Scaleless so he is het for Sunkissed Scaleless.  His $325.00 price includes    

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After noting a week-or-so ago that the female Granite Gray-banded Kingsnake, Lampropeltis alterna, above appeared to be ovulating, I introduced the more colorful of my male Leucistic Alterna.  My other Leucistic males have little or no orange suffusion, so they’re essentially all-white.  Note the over-sized eyes of the male Leucistic in this picture.  I believe that the over-sized eyes are a collateral (?synergistic?) feature of blue-eyed-white serpents, much like the high frequency of deafness in blue-eyed white dogs, cats, and other species?  So far, no evidence of marriage between these two.  Stay tuned . . . 

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This 21″ female 2016 Corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice.  Her parents were a Tessera and a Sunkissed Scaleless so she is het for  Sunkissed Scaleless.  Her $345.00 price includes     

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A 2016 female Scaleless Extreme Okeetee corn snake that will be headed to Canada as soon as SHIPPING weather improves.  

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.  A subject of debate is the question, “how many generations of breeding away from one of the original species are necessary to consider them pure corn snakes?”.  Reality dictates that if you put a drop of milk into a glass of water, it’s milk water, but if you pour that glass of milk water into a swimming pool of water, it is still fundamentally milk water.  We can all see that some of the shared genes between those two species will be retained in future generations, causing features not common to one, both, or either species.  I definitely understand that even only 1% alien species proportion–even 500 generations after the first inter-species hybridization–constitutes ALL descendants as being hybrids, but many species and sub-species toDAY are thought to be the result of ancient hybridization between species or genera?  At SMR, we prefer to call all snakes “hybrids” if we are certain that they have alien ancestry? 

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Adult female Rhino Ratsnake (Gonyosoma boulengeri ) just starting to slough her separated epidermal generation of skin.  Noting the obvious potential difficulty this species could sometimes have in getting the dead skin disconnected from their rostral appendage, her wild counterparts surely slough their skins in vegetation that offers twigs for catching the rostral tip?