Snake of the Day 06-22-17

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2017 13″ female Pied-sided Bloodred corn snake for sale.  She’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  Some of you are aware that the reason I named these Pied-sided (aka: p/s) instead of Pie-bald, Pied, or White-sided was because I knew that at least gene mutations are currently missing in the corn snake hobby are White-sided and Pied.  Both have been demonstrated in many other serpent species, so it’s a foregone conclusion that they WILL be demonstrated in corns.  Not IF but WHEN.  I didn’t want to ruin either of those future discoveries by using the most applicable names Pied or White-sided, since the hallmark of this mutation is that the white is mostly relegated to the sides, and such white patches are generally disconnected and random in lateral zones.  One name I toyed with when I first hatched these was “Red-sided” since regardless of how much and where the white patches are exhibited, they all had otherwise shockingly RED sides.  The dorsal markings on toDAY’s featured SOTD will greatly diffuse and will be deeply red at maturity.  The lateral zones below the dorso-lateral demarcation line between longitudinal pattern zoness will also be solidly red, except where the white is showing now.  When I first named this morph I was tempted to call them Red-sided Bloodreds, but it was somewhat of a redundant name.  Some pied-sided Bloodreds have no lateral white at all, but their resemblance to p/s Bloodreds is obvious, in the realm of the shockingly stark red sides. Her  $195.00 USD price includes   to any of the lower-48 United States because she is what we consider a low-expression p/s Bloodred.  Medium- and High-whites are considerably more rare in the hobby and consequently more expensive.   . . . S O L D

Snake of the Day 06-21-17

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Two 2017 Sunkissed corns that hatched a few weeks ago.  No, I don’t feed two snakes in the same cage, but 10 minutes after offering both of these Sunkissed corns new-born pinkies, the Sunkissed Tessera was still wrangling his because he decided to eat it rump first (generally called breach-feeding).  Since I could see it would be a little longer for him to swallow this pinky, I photographed him next to the brother who just finished his first meal.    

Snake of the Day 06-20-17

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Lucky shot?  It’s not uncommon for me to catch two snakes tongue-flicking at the same time when they are in a pic with many snakes, but for both of the only two in a pic to be flicking in unison is very uncommon for me.  Parents of both these Scaleless corns were eXtreme Okeetees het for Scaleless, so these will be very colorful when mature.  

Snake of the Day 06-18-17

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The parents of this 12″ 2017 aberrant male Scaleless Okeetee corn snake are both eXtreme Okeetees, so his colors will be dramatically deepen through maturity.  He’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  His $595.00 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) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids.

Snake of the Day 06-17-17

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The parents of this 13″ 2017 aberrant female Scaleless corn snake are both het for Scaleless and Sunglow Motley.  Therefore, her colors should saturate with maturity, like most corns in the hobby toDAY?  She’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice.  Her $595.00 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) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids. 

Snake of the Day 06-16-17

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Let’s just say that toDAY’s SOTD feature is only a PEWTER (Diffused Charcoal–aka: Charcoal Bloodred) corn snake.  This particular one could be unique in the world, but I won’t know for another few years, after breeding trials.  I’m confident she possesses a new corn snake gene mutation.  Sorry for the “tease” but if this project reaches fruition–and has the outcome I expect–you’ll recall that I hinted to it on June 16, 2017.  No, it’s not the yellow throat. 

Snake of the Day 06-15-17

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 As I have stated several times in the past, RF usually causes not only an overall pink wash, but almost always turns otherwise black blotches to brown on males (the opposite of virtually all females that maintain their black markings).  ToDAY’s featured corn is actually a female, so I’m pleased that the Red Factor expression is so strong, but in opposition to most males with this genotype, females usually maintain their black blotches.  This surely isn’t an impact from the RF mutation, since Aneries are largely gender dimorphic (males and females have a predominantly different phenotype). See pic 2 of this daily feature for a demonstration of the color distinction between adult Anery males and females.  

Snake of the Day 06-14-17

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Not necessarily an absolute phenotypic distinction between a Kansas Emory’s Ratsnake (darker of the two) and a Southwest Texas Emory’s Ratsnake, this picture does demonstrate how variable this species is from just north of Kansas to Mexico..