SMR Archive

Another Xtreme Okeetee laying eggs on January 10, 2018.  This is her first year laying eggs.  She—and her 2018 mate—are het for Scaleless. 

This 2016 female eXtreme Okeetee Tessera (possibly het Amel) will have more black as an adult than most Tesseras in the hobby toDAY. She is 26″ long and eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. 

Parents of this 2015 male Corn Snake are a Scaleless eXtreme Okeetee and a Hurricane Lavender Motley.  He is currently 36″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice. 

This 2016 female eXtreme Okeetee Tessera (possibly het for Amel) will have more black as adult than most Tesseras in the hobby toDAY. She is 23″ long and eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice.

This 36″ female 2015 Lava, Het Caramel corn produced by my good friend, David Partington is also possibly-het Amel.

The parents of this 2016  31″ male Sunglow were both het for Scaleless, so this one has a 66.6% potential for possessing one copy of that gene mutation.  He is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

Xtreme Okeetee laying eggs on January 7, 2018.

We’re not implying that every visual corn snake that lays elongate and large eggs is a hybrid, but this Scaleless eXtreme Okeetee demonstrates her inter-species hybrid pedigree via these very long eggs.  “Hybrid vigor” is a recognized feature of the results of hybridization in many animal species.  All Scaleless corns toDAY have a common Emory’s Ratsnake ancestor. 

Thanks TONY DONGARRA for this amazing Gray Ratsnake (Pantherophis spiloides) LEMON mutant and some hets.  She should be large enough to breed next year, so fingers crossed that we will be able to offer some of these gems in 2019?

Seems like this year–so far–has been largely about Trans-pecos Ratsnake mutations, so here’s a NOMINATE form of the species that I captured last summer.  This little female will be large enough to breed in two years.