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I’ve shown you examples of this “morph” for several years, but I’m now naming it. CHERRY will be the morph name of these amazingly red corns. Pictured here is: 1) an adult male that hatched in the late 1990s. MORE PICS . . .
Snake of the Day 08-07-16
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Someone recently asked for a belly picture of a Bloodred Tessera. I don’t suggest that all Bloodred Tesseras have a belly pattern like this, but it does seem that in the realm of Tessera, the typical Bloodred belly pattern dominates the often otherwise completely white belly of Tesseras? That said, I believe that Striped Bloodred Tesseras may not fit this model? Relatively uncommon are the black freckles on the belly of this one.
Snake of the Day 08-06-16
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Pied-sided Bloodred corn snake photographed outdoors on a mirror. I’ve been photographing snakes on mirrors for years, but whenever I shot them outdoors–showing what was in the reflection beyond the snake–people usually said that it distracted from the photo subject. I shot this one almost a decade ago, intentionally rendering the reflection of trees above the shooting theater.
Snake of the Day 08-05-16
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This 2014 female Western Hognose Snake (Heterodon nasicus) is currently 20″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. She is possibly het for Amel and she should be ready to breed in Spring, 2017. Her $195.00 USD price includes
Snake of the Day 08-04-16
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This 2015 male corn snake is het for Amel and Caramel (therefore, het Butter) and possibly het for Scaleless (parents were Amel het Striped Butter X Caramel het Amel–both het Scaleless). He has eaten frozen/thawed pinky mice four consecutive times without hesitation. His $175.00 USD price includes
Snake of the Day 08-03-16
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Terrazzo corn snake mutants (originally called Granite Corns) are historically known as the second corn snake gene mutation with a Striped pattern scheme, but NOT allelic to Striped corn snake mutants (if you breed a Terrazzo to a Striped Corn, no striped progeny will result, other gene mutations not-withstanding). See written history of this mutation below: S
Snake of the Day 08-02-16
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Male 2013 visual-het Leucistic Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna). Most visual-het Graybands demonstrate a Hypo-esque look that is common in snakes that are het for the gene mutation, Leucism. In fact, like the inheritance of most Leucistic serpents, the Leucistic Gray-band is dominant to wild-type (not recessive). Therefore, most F1 out-crossed progeny (hets) have a pale hypomelanistic-type phenotype similar to visual-hets of the other leucistic mutant serpents. Aside from the inherent value of the Leucistic Homozygote (pic 2) pattern-less and color-less Leucistic Alterna, the visual-hets are stand-alone beautiful “morphs”.
Snake of the Day 08-01-16
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This 2014 male Western Hognose Snake (Heterodon nasicus) is currently 14″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky or small fuzzy mice. Not rare, but also not common, is the twin spotting of pattern he possesses. He is possibly het for albino. His $155.00 USD price includes
Snake of the Day 07-31-16
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Another 2015 (now yearling) Scaleless corn snake. This one demonstrates a perceived exaggeration of their eye size, due to the lack of facial scales that are built up around the eyes of scaled snakes. If this snake were not a scale-less mutant, her eyes would be the same size proportion as any of her scaled counterparts.
note: ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including scaled corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation) 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.
Snake of the Day 07-30-16
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From two corns het for Striped Sunkissed Caramel (Striped Honey) these Honey, Sunkissed, Amel Sunkissed, and Honey Motley 2016 hatchlings will be listed for sale after they have voluntarily fed three consecutive times. They are now only nine DAYs-old, so it will be a couple more weeks before we will certify them for shipping. Only 8% of our 2016 eggs have hatched thus far, and most of the remaining eggs won’t begin hatching for another month (we’re still getting eggs daily).