Snake of the Day 01-21-16

Produced by John Stolz, TailsNscales in Derby, Kansas, this beautiful 2015 Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake) is surely het for the Chocolate mutation for this species?  This is not an unusually rare example of aberrant pattern–that is usually inherited from a Chocolate Emory’s Ratsnake mutant.  I forgot to ask, but I’d expect John to say that one of the parents of this one was het or homo for that pattern mutation that usually renders a twin-spotted pattern down the back.

Snake of the Day 01-19-16

This 2015 male Anery corn snake is already demonstrating pink from the influence of the Red Factor gene mutation, and should intensify in color through maturity.  He is now about 15″ long, eating frozen/thawed small mouse pinkies.

Snake of the Day 01-18-16

A demonstration of the difference one year of maturity has on two related corn snakes.  Both Boot Key Corns, the larger of the two was produced in 2014 by John Finsterwald in Colorado and the 2015 hatchling by Orlando Diaz in Florida. The younger of these will look exactly like the larger one a year from now.  This beautiful naturally-occurring corn snake morph is growing in hobby popularity, but this particular Key (Island) form will probably always be rare.

Snake of the Day 01-17-16

This 2015 female Charcoal is from a Tessera parent so her colors are sharper than most Charcoals.  She is now about 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed small mouse pinkies.

Snake of the Day 01-15-16a

This 2015 male Amel Tessera (possibly STRIPED AMEL TESSERA)  is now 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed small mouse pinkies.  He could be het for Sunkissed, since one of his siblings was a Sunkissed.

Same snake in a different pose.