Category: SOTD

Sub-adult pair of Striped Coral Ghost corn snakes that will be paired this summer. The more colorful (orange) of the pair is the male.

Female cross between Kastanie and Java, the breeding goal of such a project to see if the “Java” morph is actually Kastanie?  If NOT Kastanie, how is it inherited?  So far, it appears that they are the same mutation, KASTANIE, but more breeding trials are indicated?  

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This 2016 female Tessera corn snake is currently 27″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  She is 66.6% possibly-het for Scaleless, since both of her parents were het for Scaleless.  Her $245.00 USD price includes     

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Surely this is one of the most amazing examples of a Striped Honey (aka: Striped Sunkissed Caramel) corn? The zig-zag tail is only part of the injuries this snake sustained when he tried to stop the metal fan of a window air-conditioner as a youngster.  Second pic shows a nasty dorso-lateral scar from that event.  FYI, one corner of the 1/4″ hail screen covering the duct opening of the AC unit was loose, which sadly allowed the snake to enter the fan housing.

Note-to-self: Routinely monitor ANYthing in the snake buildings that could facilitate escape or cause injury to snakes that may get out of their cages.

This 2016 female Scaleless corn is currently 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.

She is possibly het for Caramel.

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.

We should have some 2017 hatchling Banded Charcoal corns this-coming summer. This 8-year-old female shows a little yellow in her neck region, but given that most Anery-types that have the genes to allow retention of carotenoid yellow have much much more yellow by this age. I doubt she will have much more than we now see, but the good news is that she should pass this genetic propensity to her offspring?

 

This 2015 male Diffused corn is currently 26″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  While also demonstrating the Masque mutation, he falls short of being called a Bloodred because of his lack or red and low diffusion.  One of his parents was a Fire (Amel Bloodred) so he’s at least het Amel?

This 2015 26″ female Miami Phase corn snake is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  She is het for Cinder Caramel Amel (therefore, het Amel Cinder, Caramel–aka: Peppermint Caramel/Buttermint).

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 hybrid generation 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 Corn to produce the first one, I don’t see how the babies from breeding one like this to an Emory’s would be any ethically different than all of the descendants we call Scaleless Corns?

 

This 2015 male Striped corn is currently 26″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.