Snake of the Day 02-24-18

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This adult Striped Sunkissed corn snake is owned by Catherine Turley.  The inheritance of this pattern stripe-LESS “mutation?” within the Striped Complex is not fully understood, but if you bred this snake to a visually striped corn snake you’d get 100% Striped mutants of varying pattern exhibitions (striped, stripe-less, and aggregations thereof).

Snake of the Day 02-23-18

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Female Snow corn, owned by Catherine Turley.  This one is close to the BONE WHITE Snows we saw more of a couple of decades ago in this hobby. Except for subtle color tones, this is one of the whitest I’ve seen in a long time.  This color scheme is not rare among WhiteOut (Blizzard Bloodreds) and Avalanche (Snow Bloodreds), but I see no markers for Diffused/Bloodred in this corn’s pattern.

Snake of the Day 02-22-18

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Freshly out of brumation last week, this 2015 female SMR-line High-white Reverse Okeetee corn is owned by Catherine Turley.  Shocking yellow.   . . .

Snake of the Day 02-21-18

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2017 Scaleless corns that we held back, to be future SMR breeders.  The Tessera is possibly het for Caramel and Amel (therefore, BUTTER) and the parents of the other one were both het for Scaleless Sunglow Motley.  Since we can see the extra color demonstrated in the non-Tessera above (presumably from the RF (aka: RedFactor) gene mutation), next project is to put that RF gene into Scaleless Tesseras and Amel Scaleless Tesseras?  Well worth the wait, eh?  

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.

Snake of the Day 02-20-18

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Slightly yellow, compared to it’s clutch mates, this egg hatched without complications last year (the concavities filling out as soon as the eggs were set up in damp vermiculite).  The demonstration here, of course, is that the embryo was alive and growing.

Snake of the Day 02-18-18

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2015 male Cherry Amel corn snake with a 2016 High-white Reverse Okeetee–for color reference.  This HOMOZYGOTE male Cherry Amel will be mature enough to breed this year, so I plan to keep him busy later this Spring.   

Snake of the Day 02-17-18

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2018 corn snake eggs from parents eXtreme Okeetee and Caramel, both het Scaleless and more.  They were laid on Christmas Day, 2017, and we anticipate first pip on February 22nd.  Four clutches of eggs are slated to begin hatching on that date, but I see that a few clutches should pip sooner.  Looks like a few were laid on December 23, 2017.  

Snake of the Day 02-16-18

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I probably should have published these separately, so resolution would be better, but for comparison, I stacked them in the same pic.  The top snake, owned by Catherine Turley, is a stunning Caramel Bloodred from Key stock.  The bottom snake is a SMR low-white P/S Bloodred we produced several years ago, also from Key stock.  If I recall who bought this gem from us, I’ll request a current pic.  BTW, the scant p/s expression on this snake (barely shown in this pic) did not derive from any of the hobby Pied-sided mutations.  It just spontaneously cropped up in this line, from parents that had never been bred to any of our P/S Bloodred mutants.  What these two snakes demonstrate is the inherent phenotypic value of breeding some of our common corn snake mutations to good Key corns; extreme diffusion of markings?