2010-Pied-sided Bloodred – low

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Low-White Pied-sided Bloodred
Male
d.o.h. 2010
44″ long on October 31, 2012
250.00 shipped

 

This 2010 male Low-White P/S Bloodred shows little white, but is capable of producing lows, mediums, and highs in the realm of the degree of white – when bred to other SMR Line P/S Bloodreds.  He is possibly het for the McDonald Line of P/S Bloodreds.  he’s 44″ long and eating frozen/thawed adult mice.

 

Details:
Pied-sided Bloodred (aka: p/s bloodreds)
Low White Expression
Note:  Expect DIFFUSED and BLOODRED to be incorrectly but synonymously used in the hobby
Most Commonly used Name: Pied-sided Bloodred
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Selective Variation + Recessive
Morph Type: Single recessive mutation & selective variation
Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground colored iris

Go to History for more details about the DIFFUSED / BLOODRED base mutation of this compound morph.

At this time, this author suspects that P/S Bloodreds owe their atypical white lateral and facial markings to polygenetic traits versus simple recessive mutation. It is sometimes difficult to determine the inheritance of a trait or mutation when expression of the atypical feature is highly variable.  In other words, are the Bloodred siblings of P/S Bloodreds not P/S Bloodreds OR are they P/S Bloodred mutants that are at the lowest end of the 0-to-10 scale for white expression?  When proving the mode of inheritance via evaluation of Mendelian Phenotype Proportions in a single brood of snakes, visual expression is crucial.  Hence, if the expression of white in this morph can be so extremely variable, when citing the ratio of visual mutants compared to visual non mutants, the very description of inheritance can be in doubt.  I therefore honestly don’t know if P/S Bloodreds owe their distinctive pied-sided white appearance to a recessive mutation OR polygenic trait modifications.

Aside from the random lateral white feature that is obvious in most members of this morph – compared to standard Bloodreds – is the extreme diffusion – even if they don’t demonstrate any of the randomly distributed white patches on the sides.  On most – even in the absence of lateral white patches – there is an obvious line of demarcation between the dorsal and lateral pattern fields – just above the half-way point on the sides (dorso–laterally).  This stark break line between dorsal and lateral markings also begs questions about the lateral white being a mutation OR variable expression of polygenetics.

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#110312
Striped Motley Sunglow
Female
d.o.h. 2011
37″ long on October 31, 2012
$225.00 shipped


This 2011 Striped Sunglow Motley is 37″ long and eating frozen/thawed adult mice.  She has not been cooled in preparation for the 2013 breeding season, but there is still time to do that.  She is most likely het for Stripe, so if you breed her to a Striped Sunglow, you should bet both Striped Motley Sunglows and Striped Sunglows. Some of her siblings were Butter Motleys, and it appears that she could be het for Caramel (ergo: Butter).



Sunglow Motley (aka: Sun Motley)
Most Commonly Used Name: Sunglow Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variant
Morph Type: Selective Variant of Recessive Compound (Amel + Motley)
Eye Color: Red pupil

Many generations were spent in refining the beauty of the Sunglow Motley.  Their genetic mutation is officially Amel Motley, but they have been selectively bred toward the goal of deeply saturated red coloration and classically orderly Motley pattern.  For years, we were helpless to explain why the colors in this line were so deeply saturated and why they were redder than other genetic lines.  In 2009, one of our friends that wondered the same and conducted breeding trials to determine what caused the intense colors.  She concludes that SMR Sunglow Motleys possess the added mutation of what is sometimes referred to as Red Mask or Red Factor.  It is allegedly inherited in dominant fashion (it is a recently discovered mutation and is still poorly understood).  Once I validate her genetic inheritance findings, the price of Sunglow Motleys will increase, since they will undoubtedly become powerful genetic tools in deepening and saturating reds in other corn snake morphs.

 

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ToDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Thu, Nov 1, 2012)

#110112
Terrazzo Het Lava
Male
d.o.h. 2011
25″ long on October 31, 2012
$300.00 shipped

 

 

This 2011 female Terrazzo is Het for the Lava mutation.  The combination for both mutations results in a pale and stunning mutant compound.  Even if you don’t have a Terrazzo, when bred to any Lava, among the progeny will be pale and beautiful Lavas.

Terrazzo mutants (originally called GRANITE corns) were first discovered in the 1990s by Craig Boyd on one of the Florida Keys (this mutation is genetically recessive to wild-type).  The lean-bodied purely corn snake mutation originates in Key Corns (aka: Rosy Rats) so the predominate color is tan like most Rosy Rat Snakes.  In the most extreme examples of the mutation, virtually no recognizable pattern is obvious.  Even the best usually show vestigal striping, extending perhaps just one to three inches from the neck, toward the tail.  From there aft, minute, random, and numerous freckling that is darker brown than the ground color zones are evident.  Some Terrazzos have obvious dorso-lateral striping more than half-way down the body, starting at the neck.  From there – in addition to the namesake freckling – the dorso-lateral longitudinal stripes break up to disorganized broken-stripes.  The name GRANITE now applies to the mutation compound Diffused Anery (aka: Anery Bloodred).

 

 

Root Beer Bloodred 10-31-12

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ToDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Wed, Oct 31, 2012)

 
#103112
Root Beer Bloodred
Female
d.o.h. 2010
37″ long on October 31, 2012
$165.00 shipped
 

This 2010 female Root Beer Bloodred is sexually mature but needs to be brumated prior to her first breeding.

 

Comments:  Superior color and size maturity
See ROOTBEER CORN for genetic origins.

 

INTERSPECIES  HYBRID !

RootBeer (no aka)

Most Commonly Used Name:  RootBeer or Root Beer

Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Cornsnake + Emory’s Rat Snake

Morph Type: Single recessive HYBRID Mutation

Eye Color:  Dark pupil

Formerly considered an intergrade of what used to be two corn snake subspecies (Elaphe guttatus guttatus X Elaphe guttatus emoryi), Rootbeers are the final product of crossing an Emory’s Rat (aka: Great Plains Rat Snake) with a corn. Since the new taxonomic classification assigns distinct species to each (Pantherophis emoryi and Pantherophis guttatus), in herpetocultural vernacular, Rootbeers are now officially consideredhybrids.  ANY progeny from Rootbeers or any corn snake that has any degree of Emory’s Rat Snake in it, is considered a HYBRID. Rootbeer hybrids are the non-albino version of the Creamsicle.

 
 

 

 

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ToDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Tue, Oct 30, 2012)

 
#103012
Hypo Bloodred
Female
d.o.h. 2010
37″ long on October 30, 2012
$165.00 shipped
 

This 2010 female Hypo Bloodred is from the SMR p/s Bloodred Line.  Since she is progeny of two heterozygotes for the p/s mutation, it’s not obvious if she is a p/s Hypo Bloodred not showing white OR even a Het for p/s Bloodred.

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Hypo Bloodred (aka: Hypo Blood, Diffused Hypo)
Most Commonly Used Name: Hypo Bloodred
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Mutation Compound (Hypo + Bloodred)
Eye Color: Black pupil & body ground colored iris (some can be so hypomelanistic, their pupils can be gray to dark red).
 

Go to History for more details about the DIFFUSED / BLOODRED base mutation of this compound morph.

This compound morph results from combining the color mutation, Hypo with the pattern mutation, Bloodred.  As with most morph compounds that include Bloodred, the Hypo bloodred mutation‘s color effect is greatly diffused (markings often barely visible), but unlike the red eyes on the Fire Corn, the pupils of most Hypo Bloods are black.  Occasionally, one will have reddish-black pupils, but unless red in the pupil is being seen under strong light, pupils are almost always black.  Except for some of the color and pattern variants of this mutation compound, some Hypo Bloods have such diminished melanin that they are indistinguishable from Fire Corns (except for eye color).

 

 

What to expect:
Many Hypo Bloodred hatchlings look like little more than regular Bloodred Corns, but their overall coloration is more pale – in the dramatic reduction of melanin. Compared to the red of the Fire Corn, most Hypo Bloodreds are more orange.  In time, we should be able to infuse more red via polygenetics and/or the red mask mutation.  Adults should have a softer look than their classic Bloodred counterparts – due in part to the overall reduction of melanin. 

 

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#102912
High White
Female
d.o.h. 2011
32″ long on October 27, 2012
$175.00 shipped

This 2011 female promises to be a stunning adult, even with some orange in her ground color zones.  She is already showing the mint green colors in some of her blotch margins near the tail; a sure sign that most of her blotch margins will be that color at color maturity.

Details on this morph:

 

High White Reverse Okeetee (aka: High White Corn)
Most Commonly Used Name: High White Reverse Okeetee
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variation
Morph Type: Selective variant of the single recessive mutation, Amel
Eye Color: Red pupil


High White Reverse Okeetees are variants of the basic Reverse Okeetee mutants (Amel is the only mutation known to exist in this morph).  Genetically speaking, Reverse Okeetees are Amel corns that have been selectively bred to promote their target look (Highly saturated blotch colors, separated from clean and unstippled ground coloration by prominent white blotch margins).  High Whites are selectively bred variants of Reverse Okeetees – toward the target phenotype of having the cleanest white ground coloration.  Since the only mutation they possess is Amel, the obvious distinction between any Reverse Okeetee and the average Amel corn is the distinctive color scheme.  Red or orange markings are not difficult to reproduce through generational line breeding, but the white background color is very difficult to achieve, and sometimes difficult to maintain through subsequent generations.  The white background and red (or orange) markings have been enhanced via polygenetic traits, modified through selective promotion of only the best target phenotypes. While we have greatly reduced the orange coloration in the ground color zones, even our best High Whites show a blush of orange between markings, especially on the first 1/3 of the body.  High White refers to the predominantly white ground color zones, but some also have atypically broad white blotch margins.  
When breeding two Reverse Okeetees together, because they are Amel mutants, you are assured of getting 100% amels, but factoring in the variability of the interactions between genes (polygenetics) means that not necessarily all the offspring will be marketable High Whites.  We cull out the ones that do not satisfy our quality standards for High White Reverse Okeetee color and pattern, and those are sold as Reverse Okeetee corns.


What to expect:

As neonates, all High Whites are shockingly red or orange on white, but expect neonates and adults to exhibit slight amounts of pale orange ground color between markings, relegated mostly to the front part of the body.  I don’t recall ever seeing one that was completely devoid of color litter over the entire ground zones, but we’re getting closer to that  with  each generation.  If our High White Reverse Okeetee corns did not have such thick white borders, they would be perfect candy canes.  Some of the hatchlings displaying orange markings mature to have redder markings, and some of those starting with red markings change to orange.  About 75% of all our red ones stay red, and about the same percentage of the orange marked ones stay orange.

Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in theSURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guaranteethat we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

 

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ToDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Sun. 28, 2012)

 
#102812
Sunglow from Red Mask parent
Male
d.o.h. 2011
28″ long on October 27, 2012
$125.00 shipped
 

In addition to being a stunning example of the Sunglow Morph, this 28″ male from 2011 was sired by a Red Mask corn.  At this time, we believe the effects of the Red Mask mutation are dominant to wild-type – in the realm of inheritance.  This one already demonstrates an exaggeration of red in both the markings and ground color zones.  If he did not inherit the Red Mask trait, he promises to be a shockingly beautiful adult male.

 
 

Sunglow (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Sunglow
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variant

Morph Type: Single Recessive Mutation
Eye Color: Red pupil

 

Sunglow corn snakes are the products of selectively breeding Amel corns toward the goal of intensifying the red/orange coloration and eliminating the white blotch borders.  Most have some white scales, but are generally two shades of the Amel color theme.

 

 

 

What to expect:
As hatchlings, they essentially appear to be typical Amel corns, with the exception of having little or no white on the borders between blotches and ground color zones.  Some Sunglow corns actually lose some of that white through maturation.  While we do not guarantee the extra gene mutation, we began our Sunglow line with Hypo corns, since our Hypos have such little black margins around the markings (which of course, translated to low white volume around the blotches of the Amel mutants in the line). Expect deeply saturated orange coloration and very little (if any) white scales between markings and ground color zones.  

 


Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

 

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GENDER PAIR of siblings from crossing a Kastanie mutant with a Java ?mutant?

Male and Female

d.o.h. 2011

24″+ long on October 17, 2012

$450.00 shipped

Comments: Prospect of new morph as a result of this genetic pairing.

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This gender pair of 2011 siblings are now eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  What is Java?  Is it a Kastanie, a separate (and new) mutation, or just a polygenic production that’s similar to Kastanies?  IF Java is actually Kastanie, these are pure Kastanie mutants.  If Java is something new, these babies are double hets, and if Java is just a polytenic color modifier, these are beautiful corns that are het for Kastanie??

What are Java and Kastanie corns?

KASTANIE
The first Kastanie to be discovered was by a German Corn Snake Breeder and teacher named Frank Schaub.  The English translation of Kastanie is Chestnut.  That was before the year 2000.  Since that discovery, the Kastanie mutation has been bred into many other color and pattern mutations to produce beautifully-colored corn snakes.  The mutation is recessive to wild type.  Generally, they are anything from mahogany to mocha colored with contrasting markings against ground color zones.  As they mature, they usually darken, but the color scheme seen in most non-albino corns (the first 1/4 to 1/3 of the body having more color-saturated colors) is pronounced in Kastanies.
Example of small adult:

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JAVA
The first Javas were produced and named by a corn snake breeder in South Africa.  We purchased several of the Java corns from him, but neither he or anyone else at this time can identifiy the inheritance (are they polygenetic productions, a new mutation, or a variant of an existing mutation?). Some believe that their likeness to some of the Kastanies points to the potential that Java and Kastanie are the same mutation, but more breeding trials are necessary to make that determination.

Our Java types come in many shades of brown, not unlike the Kastanies.  The albino version of Javas (aka: Tangerines) look virtually identical to the albino version of the Kastanies (aka: Mandarins), so it is possible they are the same mutation, but again, more trials are indicated.
Example of a small adult Java Motley:
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toDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY (Sat. 27, 2012)

#102712
Kastanie
Male
d.o.h. 2011
24″ long on October 27, 2012
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Butter Motley-U102612

Butter Motley (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Butter Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Mutation Compound (Butter + Motley)
Eye Color:  Red pupil

 

This compound morph results from combining the color mutations Amel + Caramel = Butter and the pattern mutation, Motley. Color and pattern are variable, but it is apparent that the Motley mutation has a beneficial color impact upon the Butter corn’s coloration, and that impact is one of enhancement.  I don’t recall ever seeing Striped or Motley Butter corns that was not more deeply yellow than Butter corns without a pattern mutation.

 

What to expect:
Expect  most neonates to have surprisingly low-quality yellow (compared to adults), and pattern on some may actually be brown for up to a year or longer.  I have personally never seen one retain non yellow colors, so be patient.  In six to 18 months, all other colors should transform to yellow.  The pattern mutation, Motley demonstrates its power when combined with butter by heavily saturating and otherwise improving the yellow – compared to non-Motley Butters.

Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.