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2017 Scaleless Anery Corn Snake engulfing a frozen/thawed 2-DAY-old pinky mouse. Nom, nom, nommmnnmmnnnmmmnnm.
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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Color comparison between two Adult female Amels; a homozygote (aka: Super) Cherry mutant (left in pic) and a Visual-het Cherry (right in pic) the latter of which demonstrates only a portion of the extra red this mutation expresses in homozygosity. The Cherry mutation is believed to have the mode of inheritance that is dominant to wild-type (perhaps incompletely-dominant?). Some of you out there may get excited that you could have a HET Cherry, because you have a corn that resembles the snake on the right. We don’t suggest that the Het expression of this mutation is unique. I’ve had many corns that had a color exhibition like toDAY’s featured HET Cherry Amel, but were not Cherry mutants? Ps, the flash in the Southwest corner of my shooting theater over-diffused, so that’s why the Super Cherry Amel is less flash lit.
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Color update on one of the 2015 Cherry Amel Tessera corn snake compound mutants. Photographed on the green side of a U.S. dollar for color reference, this sub-2-year-old demonstrates an embarrassment of red for its age, but from seeing how much more red it is at THIS age–more-so than other red-modifiers–AND via how long it takes other red-modifying genes to manifest–I’m confident that there is still more–and perhaps deeper–reds in its future? I recall selling only one of these to a special friend, but next year, I will surely have enough of these to sell at large? What’s tantalizingly significant about that statement is that toDAY’s featured corn SHOULD be a Visual-het. That historically promises that the next generation of breeding two of these together should demonstrate an additional exaggeration of red (if that’s even possible) in some of the F2s, since some of those will be homozygotes of the Cherry mutation (via possessing both of the paired Cherry gene copies)? Ps, some of the next generation COULD also be Tessera homozygotes (aka: Super Tesseras). That is a rare potential, but an exciting one since Super Tesseras produce 100% Tesseras when bred to ANY corn snake morph or mutation.
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Owned by Catherine Turley, this stunning Miami Okeetee adult female was bred to a similar (but not as remarkable) male on March 19th. We don’t like to count our snakes before they hatch, but we will have eggs from her in about six weeks.
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Two adult Snow corns with more yellow than most Snows. The one on the left was featured on SMR FaceBook page and web site, www.corn snake.NET on March 5th with her eggs, but the other adult female Snow in toDAY’s photograph was recently bred on March 19th. Both were bred to Scaleless types, but the paler of the two was bred to a homozygote (Visual) Scaleless Sunkissed Hypo mutant, so all this year’s babies from her will be het for Amel, Anery, Scaleless, Sunkissed and Hypo. The obvious goal of those pairings is to see how much of the yellow will be evident in Scaleless Snows.
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This 21″ male 2016 eXtreme Okeetee Tessera corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed small or medium pinky mice. His $245.00 price includes
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This 19″ female 2016 Amel Buf (from Oak stock) corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed small pinky mice. Her $215.00 price includes
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I would say that at this stage of development, all of the 2016 F1 out-crosses from a Cherry Amel x Banded Fluorescent are coloring-up exceedingly red. They already surpass what their Banded Fluorescent mother looked like at this age (pic 3 below as adult), but then she does not possess the Cherry gene mutation. As hatchlings, all of our red-modified Amel corns are rather boring in the color department for the first few months of their lives. These two sub-yearlings are starting to show-off their color potential, demonstrating that they AND the products of their parents marriage will be something new in the realm of red albino (Amel) corns (even beyond being a Fluorescent and beyond being a Cherry). Our male Cherry corn is the father, and the mother is a red Fluorescent (largest snake in pic 2 below is a sub-adult Cherry Amel mutant), both of which we’ve shared with you in pictures for a couple of years now. We may only sell two or three of these gems next year, but since there is no adult model for this genetic combination, the only promise we can make is that they will be remarkably red as adults. PICs of her parents
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Most of you know that I don’t often produce Ultramels, but I pulled this gal off the bench for this year’s game. She’s a stunning Ultramel Het Blizzard produced by John Finsterwald (Zorro). Don’t her colors remind you of some Strawberry mutants, but she has none of that blood in her. Not often, but sometimes corn snake eggs are laid in pearl string fashion; with connective shelling tissue between each egg (see pic below)? Had I the patience of a palentologist or brain surgeon (NEVER) I’d have painstakingly and gently removed these eggs from the nest box so as to keep them all connected, but . . . .
John’s web site is Pike’s Peak Reptiles S
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I haven’t put a male with this female Ultramel Motley in several years, but decided to this year. I bred her to a Butter Motley Het Sunkissed (therefore, het Honey) because the parents of toDAY’s SOTD feature were a Gold Dust Motley and a Striped Amel Het Charcoal (therefore, het Blizzard). In 60 DAYs we’ll at least have some Gold Dusts and perhaps a few other morph compounds.
