Snake of the Day 06-19-16

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This is a Scaleless Amel sibling of the Scaleless Butter featured on June 16th.  Note the same orderly markings seen on the Scaleless Butter, typical of many Scaleless corns.  The obvious circles between bands would lead some to think this is a Motley mutant, but it’s not.  The dark spot on the side that looks like a bruise is actually the heart showing through the flesh and skin.  Even visible on most scaled Albino-types at this age, the location of the heart is even more evident in Scaleless neonates like this one.  The heart of young corns is best exhibited in scaled versions of Snows and Blizzards but is also visible in virtually any pale-colored hatchling corn.

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 06-16-16R

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This Scaleless Butter emerged from its egg yesterDAY (egg toof still showing).  In case you’re thinking it’s a Motley, it’s my experience with Scaleless corns that even most of the non-pattern mutants have exceptionally symmetric pattern like this one (no, I haven’t checked belly pattern yet).  Hopefully, colors will intensify with maturity, but most Scaleless Butters don’t have deep yellow color saturation.   

Snake of the Day 06-17-16

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Another brood of Amel Tesseras just hatched.  Shown are some Amel Tesseras and Striped Amel Tesseras from extreme white Amel Tessera parents.  Though extremely rare the potential, one or more of these COULD be Homozygote (aka: Super Form) Amel Tesseras since both parents were Amel Tesseras.  There is currently no visual distinction between the 99.9% of all world-wide Tesseras that are Visual-Hets and their utterly rare homozygote Super Form counterparts (perhaps fewer than three in the world toDAY?).

 

 

Snake of the Day 06-18-16

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One of several of our adult female Scaleless corns–het for Butter–that has already laid eggs this season.  We should have 2016 Scaleless Caramel and Butter (and ?surely? Scaleless Striped Caramel and Butter?) hatchlings for sale in the next two weeks.   

Snake of the Day 06-11-16

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Since her parents were a classic Amel Tessera bred to a Candy Cane,  I was surprised by the obvious soft yellow overtones on this Amel Tessera.  I’m hoping for a more orderly and classic Tessera pattern and perhaps some exaggeration of white in her babies this summer.