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From the pairing of an Amel Tessera to an eXtreme Reverse Okeetee, eXterme Reverse Okeetees and eXtreme Reverse Okeetee Tesseras. Colors will show more after their first sheds, but in typical corn snake fashion, colors will take many months to saturate appreciably. . . .
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This Axanthic Blonde Trans-pecos Ratsnakes (Bogertophis subocularis ) is owned by Catherine Turley. . . .
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Two Trans-pecos Ratsnakes (Bogertophis subocularis ); one Axanthic, HET for Stripe and one SMR-line Albino Blonde.
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This 2016 Okeetee corn snake is het for Scaleless. He is currently 35″ long, eating frozen adult mice. His $245.00 price includes
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This Miami Okeetee corn snake is the product of pairing an Extreme Buckskin Okeetee with a Miami Phase. Apparently, the yellow coloration that’s spreading tail-ward with maturity is “apparently” an exhibition of retention of carotenoids. The only flaw in that supposition is that carotenoid expression in corns is largely relegated to the sides, at this age (sub-adult). This one is showing essentially the same proportion of yellow dorsally as it is laterally? Odd??
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Finally . . . . ! This has been a tough nut to crack. I started this project via pairing a Scaleless corn to a Sunglow Motley. It’s bad enough that we usually only average about 13 eggs from our mature, veteran het Scaleless females (surely because the eggs are big, from their Emory’s Ratsnake ancestry), but factor in the reality that the average number of Scaleless corns is roughly 3.5 per brood, and the odds of getting Scaleless corns with more than one other gene mutation are not yet desirable. Since there are 4 gene mutations in this project (Amel, Motley, Scaleless and Red Factor), the average number of target morphs (in this case, one snake possessing all four gene mutations) is ONE in 32—plus one in 4 on Red Factor ?
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This seemingly innocuous image of a corn “wearing” her water bowl, prompts me to share the details of this not-so-uncommon SMR event. All of my adult corn snake cages have such a bowl, into which I set a plastic deli cup for water. I don’t have to wash the ceramic bowl very often, but an unforeseen advantage to such a watering system is that less than one female per year lays eggs in water–in the absence of having a damp Sphagnum Moss nest box. No, I don’t leave such water bowls in cages of females that are about to lay eggs. After introduction of the nest box with damp Sphagnum Moss, I leave a small water bowl in the cage, large enough to hold an adequate level of fresh water, but too small to lay eggs into? In the case of the females that exhibit that they are about to lay a same-season second clutch of eggs (approximately six to eight weeks after their first clutch of the season), since I do not re-introduce males to those adult females, if they exhibit small oval bulges where their eggs are, I often do not give them a nest box. This is because, most of the time, when they appear small, they’re usually infertile. Check out the next pic to see what usually happens if I make a misjudgment about egg sizes? . . .
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Don’t know why some of these appear to be so predominantly blue when they first hatch, but change to orange with maturity. The parents of this Scaleless corn are both eXtreme Okeetees; one Scaled and one Scaleless. Love the orange head. So far, three of this brood look just like this one. . . .
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This 18″ male 2017 Super Salmon Snow Motley corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. If you buy this snake and the depth of color is not greater than demonstrated in this picture (that I have altered to diminish the saturation of color–cuz you would not believe the real pic of this snake), I will buy it back, paying all shipping and processing fees. His $225.00 price includes
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After three impatient DAYs of waiting while this gem resorbed her yolk, she’s finally being photogenic for me at the time of these photographs, FriDAY, March 2nd. NO, this is not the one I showed you yesterDAY, but this one could also be a Sun Motley. I’m sure enough about the color, but pattern is so far not easily discerned? Upon first blush, a generally feature-less corn snake, I cannot wait to see her mature phenotype. I say “feature-less” because she appears to lack all exhibition of scales above the ventral keel (not all-together rare) as well as being generally uni-colored. Closer examination perhaps reveals the “other” Striped corn mutation pattern, that is largely devoid of linear striping, randomly demonstrating instead, those “tweener” ovals between where dorso-lateral longitudinal striping should be for this mutation? . . .
