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This 20″ female 2016 eXtreme Reverse Okeetee Tessera is currently eating large frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Her $285.00 price includes      

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This 24″ female 2016 Tessera is currently eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice. Both of her parents were high-Black tesseras so she not only has a potential to be a homozygote (SUPER TESSERA) but should also be darker than most Tesseras when she is fully mature? Her $225.00 USD price includes      

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Found this old picture of a RedFactor (aka: RF) Anery male we sold back in early 2014 (so he was a 2013 hatchling).  Wish I could recall who bought this so we could request a current picture of him.  I recall breeding a RF Snow to an Extreme Okeetee to get this snake, but now wish I’d held onto him (don’t we all say that too often?).  As I have stated several times in the past, RF usually causes not only an overall pink wash, but almost always turns otherwise black blotches to brown on males (the opposite of virtually all females that maintain their black markings).  This surely isn’t an impact from the RF mutation, since Aneries are largely gender dimorphic (males and females have a predominantly different phenotype). See pic 2 of this daily feature for a demonstration of the color distinction between adult Anery males and females.  

2015 Red Extreme Okeetee (outer-most in pic) compared to a 2016 Classic Extreme Okeetee.
The Classic in this pic may look closer to Buckskin, but its yellowish ground color will be more pumpkin orange at maturity.
He just looks more yellow because of being next to the red-on-red 2015.  The redder of the two is believed not to possess any red-modifying gene mutations, but breeding trials may reveal otherwise.  I purchased the parents of the redder one from a guy who swore they possessed no gene mutations what-so-ever? 

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2005 heavily-yellow female Snow corn.  We’ll see if she decides to grace me with eggs this year.  I didn’t breed her to anything for about six years (did not need any hatchling Snow corns), but two years ago I decided to breed her to a Snow Tessera to see if I could get these heavy-yellow markings on an otherwise white Tessera Snow, but–like last year–she failed to produce eggs.  This will be strike three for her if she doesn’t give me eggs again this year, bred to a Tessera het Scaleless Anery a few weeks ago.  Fingers crossed!?  

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FLASH BACK from three years ago toDAY.  These two beautiful unrelated Tesseras hatched in 2013, and were the S.O.T.D. feature on February 20, 2014 on this web site and on South Mountain Reptiles’ Facebook Page.  The red and white one is from Candy Cane heritage, but the gray-striped one has Ghost and Charcoal in his family tree.  I sold them back in 2014 so I have no idea what they look like toDAY.  That’s the saddest part of producing and selling snakes (not discovering what they look like at maturity).

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Amel, Butter and Wild-type Scaleless mutants.  A mutation inherited from the inter-species hybridization of a Great Plains Ratsnake (aka: Emory’s Ratsnake), Pantherophis emoryi) and a Corn snake, Pantherophis guttatus, these three Scaleleless corn snakes demonstrate a hidden color beauty not seen in their scaled counterparts.  Most of the scales are missing on Scaleless mutants of this species, but we’re fortunate that they have belly scales (aka: scutes) for more functional locomotion.  Without belly scales, a completely scale-less corn could be compared to a “fish out of water” with regard to the flailing movement they would experience?  We are not suggesting that crossing any Emory’s Ratsnake with any Corn Snake would render scale-less snakes.  It just happened that both of the original snakes of these cousin species possessed one copy of the paired gene copies for the mutation, Scaleless. 

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The only relative these two 2016 Amel corns have in common (that I’m aware) is their Scaleless grandsire.  They have different parents and both are eating frozen/thawed medium to large pinky mice.  They (male & female) are both 66.6% possibly-het for Scaleless and also possibly-het Striped Caramel (therefore, possibly-het Scaleless Striped Butter).  Their $555.00 USD PAIR-price includes     

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The Banded Charcoal Okeetee in Pic 1 toDAY is the sire of the babies in Pic 2. Late this summer, we should be offering 2017 hatchlings for sale.  

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Some of you will recall seeing this snake featured when he hatched over a year ago, but this is how he looks toDAY.  He’s a Striped corn from Parents that are het for Striped Granite and more.