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2017–12″ female Scaleless Amel corn snake for sale. She’s currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice. Her $965.00 USD price includes free Bonus pic.
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.
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Hatched on May 10th, these 2017 hatchlings are from parents, Striped corn, het Amel Honey and Striped Honey, het Amel. The snakes with the bold dorsal SPOTS are actually Striped mutants, though they do not demonstrate classic striping. We don’t precisely know why some Striped mutants do this, but if you breed ones like these to visually striped corn snake mutants, you will usually get some classically striped mutants, some that have no striping (but bold dorsal markings like toDAY’s featured corns) and some with both? Surely, the distinction between these two Striped geme mutation phenotypes is the result of an additional gene mutation? Beyond the commonality of some Striped mutants demonstrating little or no striping, Sunkissed is famous for the collateral affect of altering traditional Motley or Striped gene expression. Bonus pic
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This Scaleless Striped Caramel Corn Snake hatched in April. After a few more meals, we’ll decide to keep or sell it. Bonus pic
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My wife found this tiny deceased Texas Blind Snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis) on the tile floor in one of the bathrooms this past weekend. It was dead when she found it, but not so desiccated that I couldn’t get a decent shot of it. Naturally, the dime in the pic is for size relativity.
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May 11, 2017 pic of a brood of Sunglow Motley (aka: Sun Motley) corns taking their first breaths. Apparently two of them didn’t get the “message” to cut their eggs, but all the rest were pipping in synchrony. The heads coming through the vermiculite incubation medium are from eggs that were partially buried. The main reasons I like to keep clutches of eggs attached (VS. separating them from their Natural adhesive aggregation) is because 1) the sharing of resources is sometimes crucial to their incubation survival. Should some of the eggs on the bottom, top, or outer edges of the clutch were to be exposed to wind or other elements, they benefit from eggs in the center or bottom of the clutch that share gas transferrance and liquids via osmosis through their porous, semi-permeable shells. 2) the posture of the collective egg mass is not easily altered if they were to be jarred during incubation, and 3) egg-eating serpents that could easily gobble up all of the eggs separately could find it difficult (or impossible) to ingest them en mass. When eggs hatch in the wild, the smell of blood, albumin, and perhaps the death of one or more embryos can attract predators, so via sharing resources during incubation most of them emerge from their eggs somewhat in unison. Stragglers are often killed via predators like skunks, raccoons, cats, hogs, and even ants, so the sooner the hatchlings leave the hatch site the greater their odds of neonatal survival. Bonus pics
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Owned by Catherine Turley, this beautiful Ultramel Anery Tessera laid these eggs in late April. We’ll be selling most of the hatchlings in a couple of months.
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2017 Scaleless corn from parents, HET SCALELESS SUNGLOW MOTLEY x HET SCALELESS SUNGLOW MOTLEY. The exaggerated sheen on the sides–which also smooths out the wrinkles Scaleless serpents always exhibit–is because of distension after resorbtion of its huge yolk before emerging from the egg. Why this one has such faded markings is a mystery to me, since it’s the first one from this line not to have bold markings?
reminder: 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. Bonus pic
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The first 2017 High-white Reverse Okeetees hatched on May 2nd, so they will be feeding and ready for shipping before June 1st. Like most Reverse Okeetee and Fluorescent types, these show very little promise of the extraordinary color theme they will exhibit after a few months of meals. I know, right? They look so BLAHHH? BUT like all corns, they transform into amazing adults that will end up looking like their parents.
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2017 eXtreme (?Amel?) Tessera, parents of which were RED FACTOR BLIZZARD X TESSERA, HET BLIZZARD. I suspect / hope this is actually a RedFactor Blizzard Tessera, but it will take a few months before discerning if the color we’re seeing demonstrates Amel Tessera or RF Blizzard Tessera? If the former, it will have much deeper colors at maturity. Fingers crossed (when I’m not typing or taking photographs). Bonus pic
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Same snake in different lighting and pose.
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2017 Snow Tessera from the giant (and old) female Snow with the hard yellow markings that was featured on our FB page on March 5, 2017 and on this web site April 1, 2017 (see pix below). Hopefully, this Snow Tessera and others in this brood will exhibit yellow markings, but they won’t reveal that until they are closer to a year of age. BTW, the sire of this brood of hatchlings is a Tessera, Het Scaleless Anery. Well, actually, I only NOW see that he is also het Amel. A mutation that Jim Stelpflug will confirm since the parents of his 2016 Scaleless Amel Tesseras were siblings of the sire of this brood. Bonus pic
