Snake of the Day 10-09-17

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Our last 2017 Scaleless Butter female is now for sale.  She is 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Her $1,100.00 USD price includes    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 10-08-17

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If you have been waiting to make Cinder corns, but didn’t have the genetics in your current inventory, here’s your opportunity.  This 35″ female corn is Het for Cinder and possibly Het Butter.  She should be well over 39″ long by breeding time in 2018.  She is enjoying frozen/thawed small adult mice once a week.  Her $250.00 price includes     S O L D

Snake of the Day 10-06-17

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This 27″ male 2015 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  The Tessera mutation is dominant to wild-type, so breeding this Visual-het male to ANY corn snake female will render approximately 50% Tesseras.  This one happens to have a Scaleless parent, so he is also het for Scaleless.  His $350.00 price includes     S O L D 

Snake of the Day 10-05-17

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Two Tessera corn snakes??  Nope.  One Tessera corn snake and one “Tessera-like” mutant of the species Zamenis situla (Leopard Ratsnake) found in Europe.  I’ve waited years to finally acquire an example of this mutation, so I could show everyone the similarities between the Tessera gene mutation in Cornsnakes (Patherophis guttata) and the “Tessera-like” gene mutation in Leopard Ratsnake of Europe.  The latter has been known in the wild range of Leopard Ratsnakes for many decades, and many herpetologists and snake lovers have found such mutants of that species in the wild.  They’re perhaps uncommon in the wild, but not rare.  This is one demonstration that all snakes have a common and ancient ancestor.  Such mutations lie dormant in the genome of snakes, waiting for just the right partner to render such gene mutations.  We hope to get eggs from a pair that I acquired in Daytona in August, 2017.  Next goal is to get some wild-type Leopard Ratsnakes to start a SMR project.  Fingers crossed. NO, I have never, nor will I ever cross the two species.  Here is a good example of how much the Natural pattern mutants in Europe look like the Tessera corn snakes.  httpss://www.google.com/search?q=leopard+rat+snake&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS698US698&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibqvDZvs3WAhUqh1QKHahBBlUQ_AUICigB&biw=1486&bih=791#imgrc=HGP41AUzmjd6sM:   . . .

Snake of the Day 10-04-17

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2016 female Silverleaf Kisatchie Ratsnake (aka: Silverleaf Slowinski’s Corn Snake).  Visit Travis Whisler’s booth at the upcoming Tinley Park NARBC Expo on October 6-8, 2017.  There will be hatchling and yearling Silverleaf Kisatchies for sale there.  DETAILS . . . 

Snake of the Day 10-02-17

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This 27″ male Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  The Tessera mutation is dominant to wild-type, so breeding this Visual-het male to ANY corn snake female will render approximately 50% Tesseras.  His $195.00 price includes     S O L D

Snake of the Day 10-01-17

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This 35″ male 2015 Tessera corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. He is het for Charcoal and possibly het for Bloodred (ergo; pos het Pewter).  He is plenty mature (and large) enough to be ready for breeding, so if you’ve been looking to make Tesseras in 2018, this male should get the job done.  As we know, Tesseras are dominant to wild-type, so breeding this male to ANY corn snake female will render approximately 50% Tesseras (because he is at least a VISUAL-HET).  His $225.00 price includes       . . .  S O L D

Snake of the Day 09-30-17

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2015 Male granite Gray-banded Kingsnake in top photo and Female in bottom photo.  We’re not yet sure why this male (and his father) have such exaggeration of color and markings, but future breeding trials may reveal the inheritance of this look to be mutational?   Photo of Female . . .

Snake of the Day 09-29-17 (2)

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This 26″ male 2016 Super Salmon Snow corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. He is considered a Super (aka: homozygote) because he possesses (and exhibits) both of the paired gene mutation copies of the dominant-to-wild-type gene mutation, Red Factor. His $275.00 price includes