Snake of the Day 04-04-18

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Aggressive “necking”??  Rare in the P.guttatus (corn snake) species, this male is constraining the female–via bite grip–during courtship and mating.  The male is an eXtreme Reverse Okeetee and the female is a High-white Reverse Okeetee.  Their babies should be interesting?

Snake of the Day 04-03-18

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Comparison of a 2017 hatchling SMR Fluorescent and two 2018 hatchlings from the same parents.  You can now see why I don’t sell them until they’re a few weeks old–other than making certain they love frozen/thawed pinky mice, (see pic of them from March 5, 2018, SOTD below).  The yearling in this pic will mature to have even more saturated colors, through maturity.  Both classically marked Fluorescent AND Banded Fluorescent hatchlings will soon be advertised on our web site.
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Snake of the Day 04-02-18

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The parents of this Red Factor Amel corn snake were a Super Salmon Snow and an eXtreme Okeetee het Amel.  The mask of red from the Salmon parent has been slowly manifesting in this snake since it hatched.  Pairing this corn to a reddish Okeetee will yield some very red Okeetees. 

Snake of the Day 03-26-18kk

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Male Cherry Amel Tessera corn snake breeding a stunning eXtreme Reverse Okeetee owned by Catherine Turley yesterDAY (March, 25, 2019).  Can’t wait to see the hatchlings, but more interested in the next generation hatchlings. 

Snake of the Day 03-31-18

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Yes, compared to its scaled siblings (Butter and Striped Butter) this Scaleless Butter doesn’t show much yellow.  NOT YET!  The only visible pattern on the Scaleless Butter would initially lead someone to believe it’s also a Motley mutant, but it is not Motley.  Since part of the pattern layer(s) are missing on most Scaleless corns, the most visible pattern are the circular ground color zones between markings.  Pic 2 demonstrates how much yellow the 2018 Scaleless Butter will exhibit a year from now, via comparison to a 2017 Scaleless Butter that started life with the same modest expression of yellow.    . . .

Snake of the Day 03-30-18

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The mostly pattern-less corn in this picture seems to punctuate the GLOW in the mutation, Sunglow?  There are at least two layers that render what we recognize as the MOTLEY pattern.  Only part of the Motley pattern is shown in this snake, but without the other Motley “overlay” pattern–from the missing epidermal scale layer–the classic Motley pattern is not overt.  The comparative here is the Scaleless Sunglow Motley with a Scaleless Amel sibling, to show the relatively lackluster color saturation in the non-Motley Amel.  The question is, “Will the colors in both of these snakes fade or deepen with age?”.   . . .