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2014 female Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) in ovulation. Though very atypically colored, this is a variant of the Granite phase of the species. To what gene(s) she owes her predominantly heavily faded markings, I don’t yet know??
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I featured this 2016 hatchling on a Snake–Of–The–Day after he first hatched, when he was much less yellow than toDAY. Both parents are Cayenne Fires from the South African hobby line, but in all the years of breeding this line (but NEVER the two parents of toDAY’s featured hatchling) no colors other than classic Bloodred and Fire were ever rendered. If this snake IS a Caramel Fire (aka: Butter Fire OR Butter Amel Bloodred OR Red Factor Butter) he demonstrates how a gene can hide in a family tree for many generations until two snakes with the same genotype are paired.
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This 2016 male Ultramel is het for Lavender. He is currently 17″ long, eating small to medium frozen/thawed pinky mice. His $125.00 USD price includes
Two 2016 Tessera corn snakes; Candy Cane and Common. The Common-colored one is only in the pic for color contrast.
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Two Scaleless Tessera corn snakes that hatched here in May, 2016.
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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 the redder one from a guy who swore they possessed no gene mutations what-so-ever?
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Photo comparative of two Amel Motley corn snakes; left, Hurricane Amel Motley and right, Super Sunglow Motley. The subject of toDAY’s feature is the color gene mutation that converted an otherwise boring and barely orange Amel Motley corn to the deeply red/orange we see in the Sunglow Motley, because the latter has the added gene mutation, Red Factor. In addition to exemplifying the distinction between an Amel Motley without Red Factor and one with it, the Sun Motley in this picture is often incorrectly described as having the HURRICANE pattern, but chain-pattern dorsal circles do not qualify as Hurricane. Hurricane Motleys have concentric rings around the dorsal ground-zone circles, like the meteorological weather map symbol for a Hurricane storm. Early in the corn snake hobby, some called these Donut Motleys or Bulls-eye Motleys, but Hurricane won out in the court of popular opinion.
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This 2016 female Cotton Candy Snow corn snake (possessing both of the paired gene copies of the Red Factor mutation) is currently 20″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice. Her $225.00 USD price includes
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Typical 2014 young adult Red-Factor Snow (aka: Coral Snow) Corn Snake. She may be large enough to breed this summer?
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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 dramatize 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 varying degrees of belly scalation (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 and uncoordinated movement that would result? 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.
