Category: SOTD

Two 2016 Tessera corn snakes; Candy Cane and Common.  The Common-colored one is only in the pic for color contrast.

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This 2016 male Ultramel is het for Lavender.  He is currently 17″ long, eating small to medium frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $125.00 USD price includes    

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I featured this 2016 hatchling on a Snake–Of–The–Day after he first hatched, when he was much less yellow than toDAY.  Both parents are Cayenne Fires from the South African hobby line, but in all the years of breeding this line (but NEVER the two parents of toDAY’s featured hatchling) no colors other than classic Bloodred and Fire were ever rendered.  If this snake IS a Caramel Fire (aka: Butter Fire OR Butter Amel Bloodred OR Red Factor Butter) he demonstrates how a gene can hide in a family tree for many generations until two snakes with the same genotype are paired. 

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2014 female Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) in ovulation.  Though very atypically colored, this is a variant of the Granite phase of the species.  To what gene(s) she owes her predominantly heavily faded markings, I don’t yet know?? 

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Some of you will recall seeing this snake featured when he hatched over a year ago, but this is how he looks toDAY.  He’s a Striped corn from Parents that are het for Striped Granite and more. 

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This adult male Sunkissed mutant corn is a sibling of several Sunkissed Kastanie mutants, so I can’t be certain that he’s a Sunkissed Kastanie (looks nothing like the Sunkissed Kastanies I’ve produced in the past), but I also cannot explain why most of his markings have diffused so drastically? There are no indications that Diffused or Masque mutations were ever in his ancestry. 

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Adult male Coral Ghost corn snake.

This 2015 22″ female Tessera is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

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This photograph features a sub-adult Cherry Amel corn with two 2016 hatchlings.  F1 out-crossed hatchling on the left is an out-cross between a Cherry Amel and a Banded Fluorescent.  The hatchling on the right is from a Cherry Amel x Okeetee, het Amel.  Both hatchlings in this image will be much brighter red in a year, and by their second b’DAYs they should be as red–or redder–than this sub-adult. 

A typical adult eXtreme REVERSE Okeetee corn snake, so-called for their highly reduced blotch color (red). The target phenotype is complete elimination of the markings, but that rendering is often less remarkable than ones like this, that offer an extra color for contrast?