Snake of the Day 07-08-16

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Thanks to my good friend, Dr. Brad Lichtenhan I am the proud new owner of this beautiful 2-week-old Albino Anaconda Hognose (Nasicus heterodon).  This pic was taken just minutes after she ate her first meal (a frozen/thawed pinky mouse).  As always, Brad, I cannot thank you enough.  When it comes to snakes, you produce the best.

Snake of the Day 07-04-16

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This gravid female Granite Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) will lay her eggs in a week or two.  She was all wrapped around my hand when I set her on the black felt to photograph, but she didn’t feel like lounging.  Took the picture before she finally stretched out.    

Snake of the Day 07-03-16

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The grandsire of this Striped Tessera was a Pewter so this is either a Striped Tessera Pewter or a Striped Tessera Charcoal.   Naturally, I default to the later for two reasons; 1) wise to default to the least-case-scenario and 2) The stripe is perhaps too contiguous to believe it could be a Bloodred mutation.  It’s not unknown for a Bloodred Tessera type to have such a perfect stripe, but exceedingly rare?

Snake of the Day 07-02-16

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Sub-adult High-white Reverse Okeetee corn snake. The markings on this one are more orange than the typical red on most of these, but when bred to higher-red individuals, red predominates orange.   

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Snake of the Day 07-01-16

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Though this Pied-Sided Bloodred Tessera shows little lateral white, breeding him to a p/s Bloodred with more lateral white should render Tesseras with more white on their sides.  The parent stock of this snake did not have good red coloration like most Bloodreds in the hobby toDAY, so subsequent generations of this snake should also be more red.