Snake of the Day 07-19-16

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Not a snake, but quite the Kodak Moment?  I THINK this is a Carpenter Ant.  He was running circles around inside the perimeter of a clear deli cup NASCAR STYLE, so I snapped the shutter on one of his “fly-bys”.  

Snake of the Day 07-18-16

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These two sibling Amel Tessera corn snakes are not colorful or remarkable, but their parents were both het for Scaleless, making them possibly het for Scaleless?  I’m going to sell one of them for $400.00 USD.  They’re only one DAY-old so I probably won’t check their genders until their first shed a week from now. 

Snake of the Day 07-17-16

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Motley VS. Hurricane Motley?  Some think that Motleys with orderly and nearly-perfect dorsal ground zone circles between connected markings constitute a Hurricane Motley pattern (left in pic), but this is not the case.

Snake of the Day 06-16-16

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Juvenile orange Candy Cane Corn Snake.  This one exhibits rare orange and white saturation of color zones.  The only thing currently more difficult to control/perfect via selective breeding in Amel corns than altering orange markings to red is changing the ground zones to white.  Most Amel corns have dark red or orange markings with dirty white or orange ground body zones.  Sadly, I no longer have this snake and don’t make Candy Canes anymore. 

Snake of the Day 07-14-16

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Adult Male striped Tessera.  We don’t exactly know why some Striped Tesseras have vanishing striping, thereby not demonstrating dorsal striping on the tail, but most exhibit the top dorsal stripe zone onto most, if not ALL of the tail.  This make was loaned to Tom and Linda Thompson several years ago, siring some lovely Tesseras and Striped Tesseras.  

Snake of the Day 07-12-16

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This female (pic 1) laid 16 beautiful eggs whose corns will be siblings of the 2014 corn snake in pic 2.  Grandparents were an Anery Motley bred to a Charcoal by Nancy Wimer many years ago.  I believe that the snake in pic two is actually a Charcoal Anery (if not just a Charcoal), but I can’t explain the blush of pink, other than to guess that a red-modifying gene was hiding in one of the grandparents?   

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Probably an Anery Charcoal Red Factor.  Note the dark eyes.   

Snake of the Day 07-11-16

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Not a brightly colored Bloodred, this female just laid 16 eggs that were sired by a male with her hidden genes; Pied-sided Anery Bloodred, but the twist is that their grandfather was the famous white-sided Granite owned by Rich Hume.  Fingers crossed.  No, she’s not really brighter in color on the 1st third of her body.  A light directly above her head was not properly diffused so it was brighter than the other lights, making her look brighter only on that part of her body.