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Not much red yet, but . . . . .
This Striped Bloodred will be much redder in the next year, and did you notice the lateral color? The parents of this snake were both het for the Pied-sided (aka: P/S) gene mutation. I won’t instigate debate by calling this one a white-less p/s Bloodred, but the different shades of red on the sides are commonly seen on many P/S Bloodreds, regardless of their volume of lateral white.
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Two 2017 hatchling Scaleless corn snakes (a Scaleless Tessera and an aberrant Scaleless wild-type).
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.
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This 2016 female Fire Motley (Amel Diffused Motley) is refreshingly orange, compared to the red Fires I usually make. I’m not being facetious. I REALLY like her color. Thanks, Jud McClanahan in Kansas for making this beautiful corn. I also like the missing head scale? Could that missing scale be the result of a gene mutation? We’ll see.
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If you love CORN SNAKES, who doesn’t appreciate the monochromatic lines of the species? This male Pewter Tessera (HET DILUTE, therefore, Diffused Charcoal Tessera) was produced by John Finsterwald of COLORADO CORNS.
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A few DAYs ago I discussed the SUNRISE mutation, which is largely considered a gene modifier, since it’s most dramatic exhibition is with the Amel (albino) mutation. . BUT the Sunrise mutation is a recessively inherited single mutated gene. The extra pictures toDAY demonstrate the belly color and pattern of two different Sunrise Amel mutants. BTW, many people show an Amel corn with the caption SUNRISE CORN, but what they should be qualifying is that it’s a SUNRISE AMEL. I saw some confusion about this in some recent FaceBook discussions. The SUNRISE mutation was so-named because the Sunrise Amels start life often looking like a Snow corn with a blush of pink or orange. Within a few short weeks, that blush of color blooms to a beautiful red-orange. To those of us who have seen many different types of Amel corn snakes the shade of red in most adult Sunrise Amels is something very different, compared to all the other shades of red or orange Amel corns? It is not my intention to imply that all adult Sunrise Amels display this distinct shade of red. Through maturity–the colors continue to intensify, resulting in a deeply red Amel corn snake. How this mutation affects other color mutations and wild types is still largely undocumented–if remarkable at all? BONUS PICs . . .
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This stunning 2017 female Dilute Pewter Tessera was produced by John Finsterwald of COLORADO CORNS. You really hit this one out of the park, John.
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Dilute Granite Het Charcoal produced by John Finsterwald of COLORADO CORNS. I see a blush of pink coming into the ground zones of this 2017 hatchling. I am eager to see how she looks in another year. Thanks, John.
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Not as many eggs as her High-white Reverse Okeetee sister laid a couple of weeks ago, but what-the-heck? I’ll cook them anyway.
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This Sunkissed Okeetee laid this mostly fertile clutch of eggs last week.
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Owned by Catherine Turley, this beautiful Caramel Bloodred (from Key Corn stock) laying her first 2018 clutch of eggs. I only breed the males to each female once, so I get fewer eggs than most breeders. These should begin hatching 63 DAYs from the DAY they were laid; April 29, 2018.
