Snake of the Day 05-05-17

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Not for sale, this 2016 Scaleless Butter Corn Snake now demonstrates notably more yellow than she did when she hatched a year ago.  From seeing thousands of snakes through the lens of my camera, I often assign informal labels to their respective poses.  I call this one Pretzel Pose. A few of them, over the years, actually managed to form knots while positioning themselves for photographs.  

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 05-04-17

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This photograph from last weeks shows a female Red Coat Lava laying eggs.  We will begin selling the snakes in these eggs in about 75 DAYs, after they have demonstrated reliable frozen/thawed pinky mice feeding.   

Snake of the Day 05-02-17

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2017 hatchling Scaleless Caramel corn snake.  The gold flecking is fragments of the gold vermiculite used in incubation. This one will obviously begin showing gold or yellow colors in a few weeks or months.   

Snake of the Day 05-01-17

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Not readily distinguishable from some of the Cayenne Fires, this homozygote (Super) Sunglow Motley corn snake is an adult female that I gratefully re-acquired from a customer who purchased her as a hatchling in 2014.  Thank you, Joy.  I love her.  Some could argue that her high expression of red–from the Red Factor gene mutation–perhaps detracts from the beautiful pattern of most SMR Sunglow Motleys?  While I confess that I miss not seeing overt pattern on this one, I’m much more interested in seeing how much red we can add to Sunglow Motleys, so this beautiful female will be active in breeding projects here next year.  You did a GREAT job of raising her, Joy.  

Snake of the Day 04-28-17

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Thank you, Kevin, for this awesome 2016 female Blonde phase Trans-pecos Ratsnake (Bogertophis subocularis).  The Blonde pattern mutation in this species was the first of only a few that are currently demonstrated in this species. 

Snake of the Day 04-27-17

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Just hours after hatching, this beautiful Pied-sided (P/S) Bloodred corn snake demonstrates what a large yolk she absorbed before leaving her egg (elongated stomach distension that dramatizes the largely color-less laterals in most of the last half of her body). Yes, she will get much redder with maturity.  Both parents are very richly red colored.   Bonus pic

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Same snake in different pose.  Notice the heart (sub-dermal dark spot 1/3-1/4 back from the head)?  In just a few weeks, as muscles get greater density, the heart will be barely visible, but those of you out there who have had pale hatchling corns (and even some adults) will attest to have seen the hearts beating in the likes of Snows, Butters, Blizzards, hypos, etc..

 

 

Snake of the Day 04-26-17

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This 2016 20″ female Scaleless eXtreme Okeetee is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed medium-pinky mice.  She was only recently available, as the customer for whom I was holding her decided not to get her.  Her $660.00 USD price includes     Her belly scute pattern is highly variable.  Her father has an almost completely and evenly bifurcated belly scale print, but this female demonstrates an other-worldly belly scale arrangement that exhibits just about all of the different belly scalation we see in Scaleless corns. 

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