Category: SOTD

 

Vanishing Striped Ghost

Both Anery and Lavender gene mutations have thus far most remarkably demonstrated the so-called “vanishing stripe” variants of the Striped gene mutation in corn snakes. Other colors of partially-striped pattern mutants in corns have notably more visible striping. Therefore, if you wish to create mostly pattern-less corns, consider using Striped Coral Ghosts to increase your odds for success? This adult female Striped Coral Ghost is a typical example of her mutation compound. I’ve had several Striped Lavenders that were as pattern-less as this one, but most Lavender mutants in the hobby toDAY sadly have the potential of spinal deformations. And if they themselves do not exhibit such spinal kinking, their progeny may? We don’t yet know why Lavenders have a greater propensity for such malformations, so I personally prefer Striped Coral Ghosts for such projects. This, of course, begs the question, “what makes some Striped Ghosts lack so much striped pattern?”. Is it a separate mutation or is it perhaps a synergism between the two/three genotypes, Stripe, Anery, Hypo?

 

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This 2016 female Scaleless corn is currently 13″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  She is possibly het for Caramel is NOT a Motley mutant.   Her $525.00 usd price includes    

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.

This 2016 26″ male Amel Tessera is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  He is het for Striped Caramel (therefore, het Striped Butter)

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This 16″ 2016 male Buf Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Both Buf and Tessera mutations are dominant-to-wild-type, so breeding this snake to virtually ANY corn snake will render some Bufs, someTesseras, and some Buf Tesseras–in addition to what other genes are in the parents, as long you hatch enough eggs per brood to demonstrate all genetic potentials?  His $255.00 price includes     

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This 23″ 2015 female Sunglow is more than meets the eye.  Both of her parents were het Scaleless, and some of her siblings were Scaleless mutants.  Therefore, she is possibly-het for Scaleless.  Her $135.00 price includes      

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.

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This 2016 male Scaleless Okeetee corn is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.   His $595.00 usd price includes     S O L D 

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.

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This 2011 male Coral Snow corn is currently 53″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice. His $235.00 usd price includes 

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This 2011 male Anery Motley corn is currently 51″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice. He is het for Amel (ergo: Snow). His $175.00 usd price includes to any of the lower-48 United States  

 

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These two sub-adult Tesseras (Striped Charcoal Tessera and a CHERRY Amel Tessera) were photographed together for color contrast. The Cherry Amel Tessera will be much redder in another year, but the next generation will be even redder since this one only has one of the paired gene copies of the Cherry gene mutation.

 

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Two sub-adult Boot Key Corn Snakes produced by John Finsterwald of Coloradocorns.com, though toDAY, most of the Boot Key corns are produced by Dr. Orlando Diaz of Legacy Reptiles in Florida. There is not one single black scale between these two, even on their bellies. As different as they look–compared to mainland corns from almost anywhere–it’s easy to see why early scientific classifications described them as a subspecies of corn snake (though toDAY, they are classified simply as corn snakes, Pantherophis guttatus). Yes, captive selective-breeding has reduced the frequency of black on captive examples of these insular corns, but even some of the wild-caught Boot Key specimens I’ve seen were devoid of black.