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Banded Charcoal laying eggs last week.  We’ll have a better inventory of these hatchlings for sale this year (around early July).    

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Pewter Phantom Plasma Project.  Both Phantom Plasmas and Pewter Plasmas result from this project so IFFFF we can tell them apart, we’ll have both morphs to sell in July.   

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Sub-adult male Mexican Hognose (Heterodon kennerlyi) from the Del Rio region of Texas.  

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Eggs being laid by one of our Extreme Okeetee Tesseras last week.  

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Eggs from a pair of Scaleless Corn Snakes het for Striped Butter. All Scaleless corn snakes in the hobby toDAY are hybrids between the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake.  I know, I know, where’s the damp moss?  I actually removed the Sphagnum Moss nest box from her cage when I saw that she was about to lay eggs.  I do not recommend doing this, but as long as gravid females are checked two or three times daily AND do not have a water bowl in their cage in which to drown eggs (rare, but happens), little risk is taken.  What is the saying, “don’t try this at home.  I’m a professional“?  

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Appropriate for MOTHER’S DAY, here’s a new SMR mom.  Perfect eggs from a small adult Granite Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) laid last week.  The sire is the heavily orange one featured as Snake Of The DAY on October 11, 2014.  Bonus pic

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Here’s what you get when you grudgingly decide not to breed a nice female Lava Terrazzo corn snake.  Not unlike Chickens that lay eggs without fertilization by Roosters, these are infertile eggs that she–like most healthy adult female corns–lay even when they have no contact with a male.  Note their smaller and more elongate shape, and their hugely-off-white or yellow coloration.  This does not mean that fertile eggs this color are not fertile, but these are classic in size, shape and color for infertile corn snake eggs.  

 

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Typical eggs for a Palmetto, if not a small clutch, due to this being her first year to lay eggs.   

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This 2014 male Hypo Tessera is now 23″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  He is 50% possibly-het for Striped Ghost. His $265.00 usd price includes     _$old

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This 2014 male Snow Tessera is now 23″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  His $275.00 usd price includes     Did I mention he’s TRAINED?   UP, SIT, BEG, TONGUE (speak ) . . . . . okay, maybe not speak, but no charge / no guarantees on the TRAINED part. _$old