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This young adult Visual-het Red Factor Blizzard male bred this very old female Blizzard a couple of weeks ago. Next year, this male will breed a few females that are not quite safely large enough to breed this season, which will render, of course, a percentage of Red Factor Homozygote Blizzards. We’re expecting the pink to POP on those homozygotes next year? Note the cataracts on eyes of the female (she hatched in 2002), who has been a very productive SMR breeder for many years.
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The Amel corn snake on the far left is a 2016 Cherry Amel and the one on far right is a 2016 cross of Cherry Amel x Banded Fluorescent. This pic addresses the question you asked about yours, Laura.
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This 14” female 2016 Reverse Okeetee is currently eating frozen/thawed small or medium pinky mice. Her $135.00 price includes
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This 20″ male 2016 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed small or medium pinky mice. His amazing orange coloration was inherited from common genes (not from a mutant gene) of his parents; sire is one of the original F1 Tesseras in the hobby and his damme is a high-orange Extreme Okeetee. His $215.00 price includes
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This 20″ male 2016 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed small or medium pinky mice. His amazing orange coloration was inherited from his parents; sire is one of the original F1 Tesseras in the hobby and his damme is a high-orange Extreme Okeetee. His $215.00 price includes
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The Banded Charcoal Okeetee in Pic 1 toDAY is the sire of the babies in Pic 2. Late this summer, we should be offering 2017 hatchlings for sale.
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The only relative these two 2016 Amel corns have in common (that I’m aware) is their Scaleless grandsire. They have different parents and both are eating frozen/thawed medium to large pinky mice. They (male & female) are both 66.6% possibly-het for Scaleless and also possibly-het Striped Caramel (therefore, possibly-het Scaleless Striped Butter). Their $555.00 USD PAIR-price includes
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Amel, Butter and Wild-type Scaleless mutants. A mutation inherited from the inter-species hybridization of a Great Plains Ratsnake (aka: Emory’s Ratsnake), Pantherophis emoryi) and a Corn snake, Pantherophis guttatus, these three Scaleleless corn snakes demonstrate a hidden color beauty not seen in their scaled counterparts. Most of the scales are missing on Scaleless mutants of this species, but we’re fortunate that they have belly scales (aka: scutes) for more functional locomotion. Without belly scales, a completely scale-less corn could be compared to a “fish out of water” with regard to the flailing movement they would experience? We are not suggesting that crossing any Emory’s Ratsnake with any Corn Snake would render scale-less snakes. It just happened that both of the original snakes of these cousin species possessed one copy of the paired gene copies for the mutation, Scaleless.
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FLASH BACK from three years ago toDAY. These two beautiful unrelated Tesseras hatched in 2013, and were the S.O.T.D. feature on February 20, 2014 on this web site and on South Mountain Reptiles’ Facebook Page. The red and white one is from Candy Cane heritage, but the gray-striped one has Ghost and Charcoal in his family tree. I sold them back in 2014 so I have no idea what they look like toDAY. That’s the saddest part of producing and selling snakes (not discovering what they look like at maturity).
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2005 heavily-yellow female Snow corn. We’ll see if she decides to grace me with eggs this year. I didn’t breed her to anything for about six years (did not need any hatchling Snow corns), but two years ago I decided to breed her to a Snow Tessera to see if I could get these heavy-yellow markings on an otherwise white Tessera Snow, but–like last year–she failed to produce eggs. This will be strike three for her if she doesn’t give me eggs again this year, bred to a Tessera het Scaleless Anery a few weeks ago. Fingers crossed!?
