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Grand-damm of this brood that began hatching on August 26th is the famous “white-sided Granite” produced by Richard Hume of Unique Serpents. I’m not certain how many (if any) of these I’ll be selling since Rich said that w/s Granite latently exhibited the high-white sides. I may raise them to see which ones I’ll keep and which ones I’ll sell? s
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These Charcoal Terrazzo corns began hatching August 26th. Here is most of the brood that will be feeding and ready for shipping by mid-September. Those gold flecks on their bodies are small pieces of vermiculite that we use to maintain humidity as their incubation medium. As adults, they mature to be pretty much the color you see here with barely discernible darker dorsal-lateral stripes running down most of their backs.
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These 2016 hatchling Salmon Snow Motleys are just a week old and will be feeding and ready for shipping in less than two weeks. Not remarkably colored at this age, they will be strongly coral/pink before they are a year old and will continue to saturate in color for most of the remainder of their lives.
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Most Snow Tessera corns have bright white striping like these, but some of those white stripes tend to be paler at maturity. Fingers crossed these will stay as bright white as they are now. These will have fed a few times and will be ready for shipping in less than two weeks. They will be posted on South Moutnain Reptiles web site at that time. s
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Same snakes as above plus an Amel Tessera sibling.
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This August, 2016 hatchling male Hurricane Motley corn snake is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice and is about 12″ long. His $95.00 USD price includes
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The parents of these 2016 newly hatched corns are a Tessera Het Opal and an Opal that never looked like one, so this gray Tessera will probably reveal lavender-ish colors after its first shed. I see at least one Opal Tessera in the small brood and two obvious Opal Tesseras. Two non-Tessera pale ones look like Snows, but may not be. Hence, even though these dark ones look like Aneries or Moonstones, their color after they shed will likely reveal that they are not Anery-type mutants. I’ll keep you posted. Not that I wouldn’t LOVE for these two dark ones to be Moonstones?
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Two clutches of Honey and Honey Motley corns have hatched this year. One brood has fed twice so I’ll be posting those soon. As adults, of course, they are much more yellow than these hatchlings now are. s
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These Sunglow Motleys have not shed their first skins yet, but like all corns, they have several transitional colors in their lives. Therefore, these will transform from this dull orange coloration to red/orange when mature. Barely seen in this picture is the one Striped Motley Sunglow I get each year from the parents of these gems that are obviously het for Stripe.
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This male Gray-banded kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) is called a Light Phase for it’s brighly colored banding and ground zones. He was captured as a juvenile in 2004 by my brother. Like all Gray-bands, his colors have continued to saturate with age, but soon he will slowly develop a pale orange “blush” of color over most of the gray zones, common in aged members of this species. I currently have a 23-year-old male with such elderly colors.
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These 2016 Charcoal Terrazzos (and their siblings not shown in this pic) began hatching on August 24th. After they have shed, and fed two to three times consecutively, they will be offered for sale on our web site.
