Honey

Honey (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Honey
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Mutation Compound (Caramel + Sunkissed)

Eye Color: Black pupil & body ground colored iris


Honey corns were named by the first to produce them; Charles Pritzel and Connie Hurley of CCCorns.com in Rural Wisconsin.   We’re proud to have co-operated in their Honey productions by loaning them the original breeders we created from pairing a Butter Motley to a Sunkissed.  Honey Corns are double homozygotes for the two recessive mutations, Caramel and Sunkissed. We believe you’ll agree that they have the most amazing shades of “honey” colors that are otherwise difficult to describe.  Suffice to say, no other corn snake has ever proudly exhibited such coloration.

What to expect:

Not unlike their cousin morphs in the Caramel family (Caramels and Ambers), hatchlings Honeys start out as slightly darker versions of their adult phenotype; mostly dark gold.  Most of them have the distinctive head markings from their Sunkissed ancestry, but occasionally one will have a more typically corn snake head pattern.  As adults, the edges of their markings tend to soften and their overall coloration demonstrate the accuracy of their namesake.


Important Note:
The advertising images on our web site are representations of the average adult example of each morph.  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.

Ricardo Blizzard

Blizzard (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Blizzard
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Double Mutation Compound (Amel & Charcoal)
Eye Color: Red pupil


The Blizzard corn is the finished product of combining the two recessive color mutations, Amel and Charcoal.  If you pair a Blizzard with a non Blizzard, Amel, or Charcoal, in the absence of any other mutations in these snakes, 100% of the progeny will be common corns that are heterozygous for Amel and Charcoal.  By then breeding two of these F1 snakes together, you will get approximately one Blizzard for every 16 hatchlings — in addition to some wild-types, Amels , and Charcoals.


What to expect:
As hatchlings, Blizzards can be nearly patternless, mildly patterned (dirty white or cream on white or pink ground zones), or heavily patterned, but no yellow will be present.  As adults, some Blizzards mature to be completely white and virtually pattern-less (although pattern is usually obvious in strong light or flash photography).  Most adult Blizzards at this time show obvious yellow which is the result of carotenoid retention from diet – which slowly manifests throughout maturity.  Early in corn snake herpetoculture, the majority of Blizzard corns lacked most (or all) such yellow, but through subsequent breeding to change the patterns of Blizzards, the trait for manifesting yellow was infused into many genetic families.  Breeding trials are ongoing — in an effort to create family lines that are devoid of this color feature.  This should result in the general appearance of white and pattern-less corns.


Important Note:
The advertising images on our web site are representations of the average adult example of each morph.  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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This 26″ long 2010 Female Tessera was produced from pairing a Tessera to a Gold Dust, so she is het for Caramel, and het for either Amel or Ultra..  She is eating frozen/thawed hopper mice and should make a great breeder in 2012.

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Clean markings on this 26″ long 2010 Female Tessera produced from a Tessera bred to a reverse Okeetee (therefore, she is Het for Amel).  She is eating frozen/thawed hopper mice now, so she will be amply large enough to breed in 2012.