Snake of the Day 02-09-17

Show & Tell

We’ve hatched several snakes from our Scaleless line (from Stephane Rosselle in France) that look like this one.  The parents of this corn exhibited typical corn snake colors, but this one demonstrates how few generations have passed between now and the original pairing of an Emory’s Ratsnake to a Corn that yielded the first Scaleless hybrid mutant.  It’s close enough to that original pairing at this time for an Emory’s Ratsnake lover to work on demonstrating a Scaleless Emory’s Ratsnake.  When Colubia–in France–hatched the first of this line I asked if someone had bred novel wild-type Emory’s to the Emory’s Ratsnake patriarch, but never got a response.  This snake is not for sale, but this generation cannot be past third captive hybrids so it’s not too late to breed one like this back to an Emory’s to produce some beautiful Green-on-Silver Scaleless snakes.  Since Colubia’s web site stated that he used an Emory’s and a Corn to produce the first one, I don’t see how breeding one like this to an Emory’s would be any different than all of the descendants we now call Scaleless Corns?

Snake of the Day 01-29-17

From the SCRATCH AND DENT DEPARTMENT, this 2016 19″ female Honey (Sunkissed Caramel) is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  She has numerous spinal kinks in her body that she has had since she hatched, but she’s a great feeder and has never tried to bite?  It’s remotely possible that the size and volume of kinking could increase as she matures.

Snake of the Day 02-01-17

This 2014 male Tessera corn snake is currently 34″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.  He is het for Lava.  Sometimes wildly atypical corn snake belly pattern and color is very common Tesseras, so if you like that about them, this one has such a belly pattern.