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This high-black adult female Tessera will be a Canadian resident very soon. I know you’re going to love her, Chris. Thanks for making your collection her new home.
Snake of the Day 07-23-18
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Adult Red Coat Sunkissed male corn snake, produced by Steve Roylance.
Snake of the Day 07-22-18
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Owned by Catherine Turley, this adult male “Reverse Okeetee” is the most colorful and multi-banded one I’ve seen. Some of his babies were featured on S.O.T.D. July 9, 2018, on this web site and our South Mountain Reptiles FACEBOOK timeline page.
Snake of the Day 07-21-18
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These 2018 corns hatched the week of July 10th. Parents were a “narrow” Striped (?motley?) Miami Tessera HET Striped Peppermint and a Cinder Tessera, quasi-obviously not het for Amel.
Snake of the Day 07-20-18
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This year’s brood of Granite Gray-banded Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis alterna) are officially out of their eggs. I’ve said before–and am starting the long process of breeding trials–is that I believe this line owes their looks to a gene mutation. I have two lines of Granite Alterna, but this one not only exhibits consistent gender dimorphism for the morph, but also very stubbornly heritable aberrant patterns. BONUS PICs . . .
Snake of the Day 07-19-18r
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Breaking up the monotony a little, toDAY’s SNAKE of the DAY is not a snake. When I was watering plants on the deck two DAYs ago, I was surprised to see this hatchling Albino Green Anole. Other than the usual mammalian predators around here, RoadRunner birds stop in the yard often to gobble up my precious garden pets. They won’t get this one. Here he/she is perched on my pinky finger. BONUS PICs . . .
Snake of the Day 07-18-18
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Two pictures of hatchlings from sister corns whose parents were het for Cinder, Sunkissed, and Lava. Pic 1 shows hatchlings from the first female’s eggs that began hatching about a week ago. Pic 2 shows hatchlings from the second female’s eggs that hatched July 16, 2018. Any educated guesses about which ones have what mutations will be welcomed. Especially if they’re from ppl who have hatched some of these compound mutants. The success we get from pairing such multi-het corns is not only in getting them out of the eggs, but then, accurately deducing what the compound phenotypes are? SECOND BROOD PIC . . .
Snake of the Day 07-17-18
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This 2017, now yearling, Sunkissed Ultramel remains as brightly colored as when she first hatched.
Snake of the Day 07-16-18
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This 15″ male 2018 Tessera corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. Aberrant pattern is not all-together rare among Tesseras, but this particular pattern is one of my favorites. His $225.00 price includes S O L D
Snake of the Day 07-15-18
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2017 Juvenile Ultramel Okeetee corn snake. Thank you, Dr. Brad Lichtenhan of Austin, Texas, for producing this amazing corn snake. I love the deep orange ground color zones.