Snake of the Day 03-05-18

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These 2018 hatchling Fluorescent and Banded Fluorescent corns demonstrate why we don’t generally advertise respective morphs with pictures of their hatchling forms?  The lackluster color of these would not attract too many buyers, were people unaware of how colorful these will become through maturity?  We have a written guarantee on our web site that the hatchlings we sell will mature to be very similar to the featured adult pix in our ads.  Some of these babies will be spectacularly redder than most Fluorescent Amel corns, but even the ones with less red will have eye-popping orange.  Also, the blotch margins that are almost clear in these snakes toDAY will mature to be shockingly white, exhibiting amazing color contrast, since the white margins will be adjacent to the blotches and ground color zones.  BTW, in about three weeks, we will have about 25 of these listed for sale on our web site SNAKES FOR SALE page.   PICS 3 & 4 demonstrate the adult colors of the two common color/pattern variants of our Fluorescent corns.  We don’t know which respective color will dominant–via looking at the hatchlings toDAY–but banded ones are evident at this age, and those will cost slightly more than the non-banded ones.  s. . .

Snake of the Day 03-03-18

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Pic on Feb. 26th, 2018, one DAY after emerging from their eggs, a comparative of a Scaled Butter and a Scaleless Butter.  Both will have much more color as adults, but the Scaleless especially shows very little of it’s color potential at this age.  Love the head markings on the Scaleless Butter.  

Snake of the Day 02-25-18

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These two Butter corn snakes (one Scaleless and one Scaled) were patiently awaiting full resorption of their yolks (approximately 24 hours after PIPPING their egg shells) on SaturDAY, February 24, 2018.  Their Scaled Caramel sister was just about to fully emerge at the time of this photograph.   . . .

Snake of the Day 03-06-18

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This is the last 2017 hatchling that I’m going to sell from this respective project.  He is 21″ long, eating large frozen/thawed pinky mice.  In the past six months of maturity, he’s showing more of the “Sunkissed” yellow that will take his looks closer to those of his parents, even though the mother is labeled not to be a Sunkissed homozygote?  Father is a Sunkissed Anery and Mother is an Ultramel Anery Tessera so the double-mutant Anery Tessera progeny of this pairing are het for Sunkissed and either Ultra OR Amel.  I cited “OR Amel” because the mother of this year’s progeny being an Ultramel Anery, half of the babies from this pairing will be het for Ultra and Sunkissed and the other half will be het for Amel and Sunkissed–neither demonstrating which gene mutation they possess.  If you buy this snake as an S.O.T.D. (product #1894) you save $39.00 flat-rate shipping, but he is still being advertised on the Hatchling page of our web site as product #1735 which will add $39.00 shipping to the listed price.  His SOTD $245.00 price includes    Parent Pics . . . 

Snake of the Day 02-28-18

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In drafting the 2018 breeding roster it occurred to me that Lava Terrazzos have much more to offer new projects than even I imagined?  Why virtually all Lava Terrazzos exhibit this hypo-esque coloration is fascinating.  Not only do all of them exhibit semi-red pupils, but all exhibit this Hypo-Terrazzo look, instead of the deeper red I’d expect from the typical Lava mutation influence?  Yes, many Lavas also have reddish pupils, but not all of them–unlike ALL Lava Terrazzos having them.  They all have a common Lava ancestor, so this should suggest that the eye pupil color is a separate mutation, since some have redder pupils than others?   . .

Snake of the Day 03-04-18r

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Adult Cayenne Fire corn snake female.  Few of the adults show the white saddle margins seen on this one, but I welcome the white, since it’s so uncommon in these morph compounds.  No, it won’t be a target phenotype for this morph, but one I will investigate for potential refinement?