Two sub-adult “Old-school” Bloodred corn snakes, so-called for their darker reds that were most common in this morph when they were first described in the hobby. Most of the markings seen on these two corns will diffuse more with maturity, but will always be visible, just like the original Bloodred corns from decades ago. U.S. one-dollar bill in the picture for color reference.
While genetics will always render each organism distinctive from all others of its species, the general look of this hatchling Anery Scaleless corn snake is common in our bloodlines.
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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HISTORY OF THE KISATCHIE RATSNAKE (aka: Slowinski’s Cornsnake), which is NOT a corn snake.
The hobby name, Kisatchie Ratsnake, was unofficially assigned to the newest Ratsnake species to be described in the United States, Panterophis slowinskii, ostensibly because the “holotype” was collected near Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. This doesn’t mean that it was the first of its kind to be captured, because I was catching lots of these in 1971 in East Texas and Western Louisiana. The common name assigned when this species was described is Slowinski’s Corn Snake, but I personally don’t use that name because is contains the word CORN, and this is officially NOT a corn snake. In 2002, Frank T. Burbrink presented sufficient evidence to establish that this snake, Elaphe slowinskii (now, Pantherophis slowinskii), found between the natural geographic ranges of Corn Snakes, Pantherophis guttatus and Great Plains Rat Snakes (aka: Emory’s Rat Snakes) was sufficiently dissimilar to those two species to warrant distinct species status. Surely this species originated from the ancient natural intergradation of Corn Snakes and Emory’s Rat Snakes? In order to preserve their genome in captive specimens, and since this snake is soundly dissimilar to those two founding species, we hope breeders will resist crossing Kisatchies with Corns or Emory’s Rat Snakes. One thing I noticed when first photographing Kisatchies over a decade ago was that no matter how I filtered my strobes with opaque covers, the light heavily reflected back from these snakes. Obviously, unlike their Corn and Emory’s cousins, Kisatchies have more–or differently arranged-iridophores in their epidermis.
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This 40″ 2011 male Strawberry is Het for Lavender. His $235.00 price includes
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This 28″ 2015 female Sunglow is not just another pretty face in a cage? Both of her parents were het Scaleless, and some of her siblings were Scaleless mutants. Therefore, she is possibly-het for Scaleless. Her $155.00 price includes
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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This 2011 male Striped Amel Motley corn is currently 51″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice. He is het for the Sunsise mutation. His$255.00 usd price includes
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Two sub-adult Boot Key Corn Snakes produced by John Finsterwald of Coloradocorns.com, though toDAY, most of the Boot Key corns are produced by Dr. Orlando Diaz of Legacy Reptiles in Florida. There is not one single black scale between these two, even on their bellies. As different as they look–compared to mainland corns from almost anywhere–it’s easy to see why early scientific classifications described them as a subspecies of corn snake (though toDAY, they are classified simply as corn snakes, Pantherophis guttatus). Yes, captive selective-breeding has reduced the frequency of black on captive examples of these insular corns, but even some of the wild-caught Boot Key specimens I’ve seen were devoid of black.
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These two sub-adult Tesseras (Striped Charcoal Tessera and a CHERRY Amel Tessera) were photographed together for color contrast. The Cherry Amel Tessera will be much redder in another year, but the next generation will be even redder since this one only has one of the paired gene copies of the Cherry gene mutation.
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This 2011 male Anery Motley corn is currently 51″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice. He is het for Amel (ergo: Snow). His $175.00 usd price includes to any of the lower-48 United States
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This 2011 male Coral Snow corn is currently 53″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice. His $235.00 usd price includes
