Snake of the Day 01-25-19

This 28″ male 2017 Scaleless corn snake should be mature enough to breed this summer?  He is currently eating frozen/thawed large fuzzy mice.

note:  ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including SCALED corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation–aka Het Scaleless), AND even possible-hets are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake).  Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled siblings) are inter-species hybrids.

Snake of the Day 01-24-19

This male 2017 Sunkissed corn snake is possibly het for Scaleless, since both parents were het for Scaleless.  He is currently 22″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

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).  Therefore, all Scaleless corns (and their scaled siblings) are inter-species hybrids.  

Snake of the Day 01-23-19

Two views of the same 2018 Amel Sunkissed Motley, produced by Joe Peck.  Love the skulled medusa facsimile on the head.   I don’t think I could have drawn the head stamp with better bilateral symmetry than DNA did?

Snake of the Day 01-21-19

This 2018 female Candy Cane Tessera corn is the start of a great project.  From the ground floor, bred to any Candy Cane type, you get approximately 50% Candy Cane Tesseras and since this one is het for Stripe, you could be one of the few (if not first) to make Striped Candy Cane Tesseras?  She is 18″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium pinky mice.  

Snake of the Day 01-20-19

The parents of this 2017 male Sunkissed Tessera corn snake have never produced any homozygote Star-gazer (aka: SG) mutants, but only one of them was tested negative for the SG mutation.  He is 24″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

Snake of the Day 01-18-19

This beautiful Anery-type corn is the 2nd generation product of pairing two snakes I acquired in the early 2000s from Nancy Wimer (thank you, Nancy).  Nancy sent a beautiful adult Anery Motley and an adult Charcoal that I bred to get many Anery babies.  Breeding just about any two of them together yielded one like toDAY’s featured snake in each brood.  In addition to Snows, Aneries, Charcoals and potentially RedFactor mutants, there was just one each season like this one.  The pink speaks for itself (surely one of the red-modifying gene mutations?), but I also suspect that this one (and her predecessors from other seasons) is both Charcoal and Anery?  Trials should reveal what she is hiding?

Snake of the Day 01-16-19

Thanks again, John Finsterwald (of Coloradocorns.com) for this amazing 2017 Hypo Dilute Pewter corn snake. This is similar to some of its siblings that John sent us, but this is the first time this particular Hypo Dilute Pewter corn has been featured by us.