Snake of the Day 06-04-18

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This female RedFactor Anery corn snake has been featured a time or two in the past, so this is an update pic of her as an adult.  She could have bred this year, but I elected to give her one more year of growth. 

Snake of the Day 06-02-18

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This gravid PARADOX Lavender Corn Snake (named KATE MOSS) is owned by Dave Partington.  She was bred to a Lavender a few weeks ago and appears to be in a “family way”.  Hopefully, she’ll grace us with some nice eggs in a couple of weeks?   No, this look is not reproducible.  Just one of those rare snakes that has colors (or doesn’t have colors) that DO NOT derive from a heritable gene or genes?  I couldn’t use a Nikon with a macro lens on the DAY I wrote this article, so this shot is from an iphone 7.  Not as crisp resolution as I get from Nikon, but it adequately portrays this beautiful corn.

Snake of the Day 06-01-18

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There isn’t much talk about Java Corns these DAYs, but I have always liked them,  since getting some amazing Java corns from Bryan Laubscher in South Africa many years ago.  I don’t think anyone proved its inheritance to ANYone’s satisfaction, but I made this snake via the most logical out-cross trial; JAVA x KASTANIE.  ToDAY’s featured SOTD was bred to a male with the same genes, so we’ll see how they look as hatchlings in a few weeks.  It’s been many years since I bred these two. 

Snake of the Day 05-31-18

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This female corn (het for Cinder, Lava, and Sunkissed) was bred to a male with the same mutated genes.  She laid her eggs on May 10th, and her sister should have laid a clutch around May 18th (writing this article on May 11th).  Of course, hitting the jackpot of getting a Sunkissed Cinder Lava is unlikely, but there should be some interesting almost “jackpot” genotypes in these clutches?  UPDATE  BONUS  PIC . . .