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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 dramatize 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 varying degrees of belly scalation (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 and uncoordinated movement that would result?  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. 

2015 Red Extreme Okeetee (outer-most in pic) compared to a 2016 Classic Extreme Okeetee.
The Classic in this pic may look closer to Buckskin, but its yellowish ground color will be more pumpkin orange at maturity.
He just looks more yellow because of being next to the red-on-red 2015.  The redder of the two is believed not to possess any red-modifying gene mutations, but breeding trials may reveal otherwise.  I purchased the parents of the redder one from a guy who swore they possessed no gene mutations what-so-ever? 

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Typical 2014 young adult Red-Factor Snow (aka: Coral Snow) Corn Snake.  She may be large enough to breed this summer?

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Found this old picture of a RedFactor (aka: RF) Anery male we sold back in early 2014 (so he was a 2013 hatchling).  Wish I could recall who bought this so we could request a current picture of him.  I recall breeding a RF Snow to an Extreme Okeetee to get this snake, but now wish I’d held onto him (don’t we all say that too often?).  As I have stated several times in the past, RF usually causes not only an overall pink wash, but almost always turns otherwise black blotches to brown on males (the opposite of virtually all females that maintain their black markings).  This surely isn’t an impact from the RF mutation, since Aneries are largely gender dimorphic (males and females have a predominantly different phenotype). See pic 2 of this daily feature for a demonstration of the color distinction between adult Anery males and females.  

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This 2016 female Cotton Candy Snow corn snake (possessing both of the paired gene copies of the Red Factor mutation) is currently 20″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  Her $225.00 USD price includes  

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This 24″ female 2016 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice. Both of her parents were high-Black tesseras so she not only has a potential to be a homozygote (SUPER TESSERA) but should also be darker than most Tesseras when she is fully mature? Her $225.00 USD price includes      

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Photo comparative of two Amel Motley corn snakes; left, Hurricane Amel Motley and right, Super Sunglow Motley.  The subject of toDAY’s feature is the color gene mutation that converted an otherwise boring and barely orange Amel Motley corn to the deeply red/orange we see in the Sunglow Motley, because the latter has the added gene mutation, Red Factor.  In addition to exemplifying the distinction between an Amel Motley without Red Factor and one with it, the Sun Motley in this picture is often incorrectly described as having the HURRICANE pattern, but chain-pattern dorsal circles do not qualify as Hurricane.  Hurricane Motleys have concentric rings around the dorsal ground-zone circles, like the meteorological weather map symbol for a Hurricane storm.  Early in the corn snake hobby, some called these Donut Motleys or Bulls-eye Motleys, but Hurricane won out in the court of popular opinion. 

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

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2015 Red Extreme Okeetee (outer-most in pic) compared to a 2016 Classic Extreme Okeetee.  The Classic in this pic may look closer to Buckskin, but its yellowish ground color will be more pumpkin orange at maturity.  He just looks more yellow because of being next to the red-on-red 2015.  The redder of the two is believed not to possess any red-modifying gene mutations, but breeding trials may reveal otherwise.  I purchased the parents of the the redder one from a guy who swore they possessed no gene mutations what-so-ever? 

 

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Two Scaleless Tessera corn snakes that hatched here in May, 2016.