Snake of the Day 06-03-17

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This 2015 female Striped Amel corn snake is now 29″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.   Her father was a Striped Sunrise Amel (her deeper colors and low degree of color contrast suggests such)?  Her $225.00 USD price includes     

Snake of the Day 06-02-17

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First sheds for these 2017 hatchlings from the pairing of an eXtreme Reverse Okeetee and an exceptionally dark eXtreme Okeetee (Het Amel).  After a few meals, they’ll be listed for sale on our web site.  Bonus pic

Snake of the Day 05-30-17

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2017 eXtreme Okeetee corn snake.  Anyone who thinks they are on the SMR Reservation List for any of these should contact me, in case your name didn’t make it to the physical 2017 Reservation List.  I only have about 15 of these to sell until later this Fall when the third wave of eggs hatch.  These have fed once, so in two more weeks we’ll be filling pre-season orders for them, but supplies will be limited for a few months.  If you’re new to this morph, this hatchling will be one of the most colorful examples of an eXtreme Okeetee.  When I hand-pick neonates that will mature to have the deepest color and contrast I look for the ones like this (with the least expression of color) that almost resemble an Anerythristic mutant.

Snake of the Day 05-29-17

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This juvenile “Speckled Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula holbrooki)” from Kansas locality parentage demonstrates this species’ classic defensive pose of everting its cloaca, to exude not only musk, but blood.  Yuck!  Last time I checked, it was proposed that all Speckled Kingsnakes in the state of Kansas are intergrades between L.g.holbrooki and L.g.splendida.  

Snake of the Day 05-28-17

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Certainly not namesake-remarkable, most hatchling Scaleless Butter corns (like this 10-DAY-old) show little yellow at this age, BUT the few 2016s that are growing up here at SMR have demonstrated increased saturation of color with maturity. Our oldest is now just over one year old, so our observations are not necessarily demonstrative of all Scaleless Butter corns.  

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 05-27-17

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2017 Scaleless Amel Corn Snake that hatched earlier this month (May).  

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. S O L D !

Snake of the Day 05-26-17

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I only THOUGHT I’d seen great striping on some of the Scaleless Striped Tessera, but this one really takes the blue ribbon.  Just look at that tail striping and the stark absence of lateral tessellation?  How amazing will this one look as an adult?  If I hatch one more like it, I’ll sell one of them, but I’m really keen on seeing this on in adult form.  BTW, both parents are Tesseras, so there’s an outside chance (super rare, actually) that this one could be a Tessera homozygote?  Fingers crossed.   Bonus pic

Snake of the Day 05-18-17b

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A brood of corns that were chillin-out under a water bowl last week.  I usually keep newly hatched corns in their incubation boxes since the damp vermiculite helps keep them super-hydrated–in preparation for sloughing their first obsolete skin generation–but I prematurely moved these onto aspen before their first sheds.  They still mass together so as to retain moisture better.  From an Ultramel, Het Blizzard and Charcoal bred to the RedFactor Blizzard, you are seeing some Blizzards, Ultramel Charcoals, Ultramels and Amels.  After their first shed and a few meals, they will be offered for sale on our web site.