Snake of the Day 08-10-17

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Produced by Catherine Turley, this 24″ female 2016 Buf Tessera corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky or small fuzzy mice. She is het for Amel and possibly het for Hypo. Her $235.00 USD price includes    

Snake of the Day 08-09-17

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Have you ever mixed different colors of paint to render an aggregate target color?  You add a little of one color to another, toward the logic, “you can always add more, but once there, you cannot remove too much, once the target color is exceeded”.  When selectively breeding animals for a desired appearance, the paint-mixing advice doesn’t really apply, so when we set out to make an extreme version of Reverse Okeetees over 15 years ago (the only mutation being Amelanistic) we picked the most extreme examples from each generation to breed to one another OR bred the most desirable ones to unrelated examples that were close to our color and pattern goals? 
Details & Bonus pics . . .

Snake of the Day 08-02-17rr

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I presume this is a first since I didn’t see it on Ian’s Vivarium, but not completely certain. This 2017 Saffron Tessera (Amel Caramel Sunkissed Tessera) hatched a few weeks and is already eating me out of mouse and home.   Bonus pic . . .

Snake of the Day 08-07-17

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This 30″ male 2015 Striped Tessera corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed hopper mice. His parents were both het for Striped Fire and possibly-het for Ghost, so this male is possibly het for those mutations. His $235.00 USD price includes     Bonus pic . . .   S O L D

Snake of the Day 08-06-17

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Arguably a remarkable example of an Anery ZagTec corn snake, this 2017 hatchling is now almost three weeks old. I call these ZAGTEC but some call them “Wide-striped” corns. These polygenetic variants do not owe their atypical pattern to a gene mutation, so calling them STRIPED could confuse people into thinking they have a predictable mutation (other than Anery, of course)? No, they’re not really ZigZag NOR Aztec, but since we have seen some ZigZags (aka: Zippers) and some Aztecs that have a degree of broad and linear connected dorsal markings, I adopted this name. It IS possible to get some with similar pattern in both Aztecs and ZigZags, so ZagTec is more of a syndromic tag? These morphs owe their atypical pattern to polygenetic compounds (interactions between common genes), while most pattern morphs in our hobby are the result of gene mutations. SAD DETAILS . . .

Snake of the Day 08-05-17

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Two strikingly different-looking–but remarkable 2017 Butter corn snakes.  The more yellow one in the foreground is a Saffron (Sunkissed Butter) that appears to be Motley, but its lineage suggests that it would actually be a Striped mutant (potentially evidences via the blocky saddles that are spaced somewhat equidistantly)?  Only breeding trials will reveal which pattern mutation it actually possesses. The other Butter has amazingly high contrasting colors, but should mature to be yellow-on-yellow? 

 

Snake of the Day 08-04-17

FLASHBACK S.O.T.D. from April 4, 2014

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Lower-left inset pic shows an enlargement of a body zone of this Scaleless Extreme Okeetee featuring a few random small and atypically-shaped scales, and wrinkled skin.

So far, only one of our adult Scaleless corns requires a damp moss nest box prior to shedding.  All the others slough their skins in one or two pieces without any assistance or cage accessories.  We have never misted their cages or otherwise made any attempt to increase ambient cage humidity.  

Snake of the Day 08-03-17

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These  PROJECT Anery and Anery Tessera corn snakes are from parents, Sunkissed Anery and high-yellow Ultramel Anery Tessera so the double-mutant Anery Tessera progeny of this pairing are het for Sunkissed and either Ultra OR AMEL.  I italicized OR AMEL because IF the mother of this year’s progeny is an Ultra Anery, all of the babies from this pairing will be het for Ultra and Sunkissed.  If–as labeled on her cage–the mother (pic’d below) is an Ultramel Anery Tessera, half of the progeny will inherit one copy of Amel and the other half will inherit one copy of Ultra, BUT there is no way to distinguish between them.  See details of this compound morph project HERE.  The lower Ultramel Anery already demonstrates lots of yellow, like it’s Ultra-type Anery Tessera mother, so I think that male will be very heavily yellow (like Mom)?  The other Tessera AND the non-Tessera Anery demonstrate Hurricane-type pattern, so the non-Tessera will surely mature to be a beautiful Okeetee Tessera, with dark black saddle margins?   Parent Pics . . .

Snake of the Day 08-08-17r

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A few DAYs ago a customer asked me to show him the visual transformation from hatchling-to-adult in Cayenne Fires, so I’ll share the comparative pic that I showed him.