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A hatching Scaleless corn snake pic from last summer.  Second pic is a SMR hatchling from 2015.  No, this is not a Motley.  Do you see the not-so-sharp egg tooth in the first pic?  It’s much more rounded and “dull” than most corn snake egg teeth?

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.  Bonus pic

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No, this is not a Motley.  Many (more than half) of all our Scaleless corn snakes have dorsal markings that resemble those of Motley mutants.

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Years ago, I learned that the best adult eXtreme Okeetee corns (ones with best deep color and widest black blotch borders) were essentially the least colorful in the first weeks of their lives.  In fact, many of the best adults I’ve had over the years looked like Anerythristic corn snakes when they hatched, except for the tell-tale brown irises of their eyes?  All of these in toDAY’s pics will be exceptional eXtreme Okeetees at maturity.  They will be listed for sale in the next two or three weeks, after they have demonstrated their appetite for frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Bonus pic

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These Scaleless corns must have hatched three DAYs (or so) ago.  They were on the rack that included eggs that were scheduled to hatch next week, so they escaped my attention for a few DAYs.  These six Scaleless corns and 12 Scaled corns are from parents that are both common corns, het for Scaleless Sunglow Motley.  It appears that at least two of them inherited a copy of the Red Factor gene mutation, evidenced by their extra-orange coloration (one has a deeply orange head and neck–center bottom of pic).  The Motley on the far right has an extremely elongated neucal (neck) dorsal ground zone between markings, reminiscent of elongated markings common in Scaleless Tesseras, but Tessera haa never been a branch of this family tree.   Bonus pic

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Many of you would impulsively call this a Motley at first glance, but one look at the belly would change your minds (pic 2)?  The phenotype (appearance) of this 2017 corn snake–just six hours old–is wild-type (not unlike one you could find in their wild natural habitat).  The primary feature that distinguishes a Motley mutant from a non-Motley corn is not the “chain” of circles down the back–since even non-Motleys like this one can have many dorsal circles between markings–but the general lack of belly checkering.  Lately, from breeding Motleys into other color and pattern mutations, we occasionally see SOME belly checkering on the likes of SOME Lavender and Caramel mutants, but virtually never more than a few isolated checkered belly pattern zones.  I dare say that you would not see more than 5% of the belly demonstrating any checkering at all on those hobby-new exceptions VS. the tried and true visual standard for Motley pattern mutants of ZERO belly checkering?  Bonus pic

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Hours old at the time of these pics yesterDAY, April 14th, I ?THINK? this 2017 Striped Scaleless corn is also a Caramel, based on the precious few head scales being the color of Scaleless Caramels I’ve hatched in the past AND from the slightest exhibition of gold in the irises of the eyes, but I won’t know for sure until this one has matured for a few months?  Both parents were from the pairings of a Scaleless male to Scaled Striped Butter female corns.  Bonus pic

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This 2016 Buckskin Okeetee corn snake could very well qualify as a Miami Okeetee at maturity, but since both of her parents were Buckskin Okeetees, she’ll hold that morph title for now.  So far, too much yellow for a good Miami phase.  Note that both Buckskin and Miami phases/morphs in our hobby are named for their satisfaction of the loose color standard.  No gene mutation is responsible for the look of either.  Only polygenetics (interactions between common genes).  No, she’s not obviously shy.  She smelled the last snake I’d photographed in that very spot.  Since all of our snakes are, of course, individually housed, they seem to relish anything NEW that they smell?

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This 2016 20″ female Caramel Tessera is currently eating unaltered frozen/thawed medium-pinky mice.  Her $245.00 USD price includes   

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Confused little 2016 Scaleless corn snake.  This pic was taken many hours after she ate a frozen/thawed pinky mouse, but she apparently still smelled/tasted the residual smell of that pinky, enough to be sure she was going to wait a very long time to kill the second mouse of the DAY.  She had a death lock on part of her own body, and every time I touched her anywhere, she tightened her grip, just waiting for her alleged prey’s heart to stop?  Fortunately, she wasn’t constricting vital viscera enough to kill herself.  I finally ran some cool water on her and she abandoned her mis-perceived dessert.

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This 2016 male Snow Tessera is actually a Visual-het Salmon mutant (possessing only one of the paired gene copies to make Snows pink- or coral-colored). Pairing this Snow with another visual-het Salmon or with a Salmon homozygote will render some heavily coral- or pink-colored Snow Tesseras. He is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice. His $245.00 USD price includes      Bonus Pic

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This 2016 female Salmon Snow Motley has a great deal of Coral coloration for her age and gender. Males generally have only this much color for this morph? She is currently eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice. Her $225.00 USD price includes