Snake of the Day 02-09-17

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We’ve hatched several snakes from our Scaleless line (from Stephane Rosselle in France) that look like this one.  The parents of this corn exhibited typical corn snake colors, but this one demonstrates how few generations have passed between now and the original pairing of an Emory’s Ratsnake to a Corn that yielded the first Scaleless hybrid mutant.  It’s close enough to that original pairing at this time for an Emory’s Ratsnake lover to work on demonstrating a Scaleless Emory’s Ratsnake.  When Colubia–in France–hatched the first of this line I asked if someone had bred novel wild-type Emory’s to the Emory’s Ratsnake patriarch, but never got a response.  This snake is not for sale, but this generation cannot be past third captive hybrids so it’s not too late to breed one like this back to an Emory’s to produce some beautiful Green-on-Silver Scaleless snakes.  Since Colubia’s web site stated that he used an Emory’s and a Corn to produce the first one, I don’t see how breeding one like this to an Emory’s would be any different than all of the descendants we now call Scaleless Corns?

Snake of the Day 02-08-17

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This photograph features a sub-adult Cherry Amel corn with two 2016 hatchlings.  F1 out-crossed hatchling on the left is an out-cross between a Cherry Amel and a Banded Fluorescent.  The hatchling on the right is from a Cherry Amel x Okeetee, het Amel.  Both hatchlings in this image will be much brighter red in a year, and by their second b’DAYs they should be as red–or redder–than this sub-adult. 

Snake of the Day 02-06-17

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This adult male Sunkissed mutant corn is a sibling of several Sunkissed Kastanie mutants, so I can’t be certain that he’s a Sunkissed Kastanie (looks nothing like the Sunkissed Kastanies I’ve produced in the past), but I also cannot explain why most of his markings have diffused so drastically? There are no indications that Diffused or Masque mutations were ever in his ancestry. 

Snake of the Day 02-05-17

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Surely this is one of the most amazing examples of a Striped Honey (aka: Striped Sunkissed Caramel) corn? The zig-zag tail is only part of the injuries this snake sustained when he tried to stop the metal fan of a window air-conditioner as a youngster.  Second pic shows a nasty dorso-lateral scar from that event.  FYI, one corner of the 1/4″ hail screen covering the duct opening of the AC unit was loose, which sadly allowed the snake to enter the fan housing.

Note-to-self: Routinely monitor ANYthing in the snake buildings that could facilitate escape or cause injury to snakes that may get out of their cages.

Snake of the Day 02-04-17

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This 2016 female Tessera corn snake is currently 27″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  She is 66.6% possibly-het for Scaleless, since both of her parents were het for Scaleless.  Her $245.00 USD price includes     

Snake of the Day 02-03-17

Female cross between Kastanie and Java, the breeding goal of such a project to see if the “Java” morph is actually Kastanie?  If NOT Kastanie, how is it inherited?  So far, it appears that they are the same mutation, KASTANIE, but more breeding trials are indicated?  

Snake of the Day 02-01-17

This 2014 male Tessera corn snake is currently 34″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.  He is het for Lava.  Sometimes wildly atypical corn snake belly pattern and color is very common Tesseras, so if you like that about them, this one has such a belly pattern.