Category: SOTD

Snake of the Day 11-17-16

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This 14″ male 2016 Cotton Candy snow corn is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Cotton Candy was the name given to deeply pink/coral colored Snows that were the progeny of a South Mountain Reptiles Super Salmon Snow bred to a JMG Coral Snow.  His $195.00 price includes    Candy Snow (right) with a Snow Motley Corn for color reference.

Snake of the Day 11-18-16aa

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Even about to slough his skin, this stunning Scaleless Extreme Okeetee (produced by Harvey Ricker) shows promise of being a magnificent-looking adult.  His SMR grandsire looked virtually identical to this one when he was a hatchling.  

Snake of the Day 10-20-16

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This 2016 female corn is the product of pairing two Tessera corns. She is currently 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. Her $95.00 USD price includes

Snake of the Day 10-19-16

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Three pix of only four progeny from a next-generation pairing of two Cayenne Fires related to the South African Line. I was surprised to see the Snow, since I had never seen one from these two snakes when bred to different mates in the past. Parents are Cayenne Fire x Same. S

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Three of the four Cayenne Fires that hatched on October 11, 2016. 

 

Fourth and last one in this brood to hatch on 10-12-16 was this Snow Cayenne Fire.  How it will look at maturity is anyone’s guess?

Snake of the Day 10-21-16

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This 2016 male Extreme Okeetee is currently 13″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. Parents of this snake usually make Extreme Miami Okeetees with silver ground color zones, but I’m calling this one an Extreme Okeetee since his ground zones are more tan than gray. His $95.00 USD price includes

Snake of the day 10-28-16E

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I will be marketing SILVERLEAF mutants of the species, Pantherophis slowinskii for Brad Lichtenhan and Gregg Feaster.  This mutation is recessive to wild-type and still quite rare in the hobby, despite their discovery back in 2006, and subsequent limited market availability from then to now.  The only other mutation of this species was discovered here at South Mountain Reptiles.  It is an Anerythristic-type mutation, monochromatically expressing only melanin.  I call them BLACK KISATCHIES because some people incorrectly infer that the Anerythristic gene mutation from corn snakes was infused into the Kisatchies via inter-species hybridization.  Hence, this Anery-type mutation in Kisatchies is not allelic to Anery corn snakes.  They were once called Black-eyed Kisatchies, but their eyes are not black, so I continue to use the original name I assigned, Black Kisatchie.  It will be a few years before we can offer any of the Black Kisatchies, but that project is currently in progress. BTW, what is appealing about the Black Kisatchie mutants is that they do not retain or express carotenoid yellow like most corn snake Aneries do. Though it was done by some when they were first discovered, we have NEVER crossed corn snakes with Kisatchies.  

Snake of the Day 10-22-16

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This 17″ long 2016 male Tessera is currently 17″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. His parents were a Tessera Het Scaleless Anery and a Tessera from Amel heritage?  His $295.00 usd price includes