Peppermint 12-29-17d

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This 2017 male Peppermint (Cinder Amel) Corn Snake is het for Caramel–therefore, het Buttermint. He is 17″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. His $215.00 USD price includes    

Sunkissed Amel 12-28-17d

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2017 male Sunkissed Amel Corn Snake for sale. He is 18″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Only one of his parents was tested-and found to be free of the Star-gazing gene mutation.  His $155.00 USD price includes    

Banded Fluorescent 12-25-17d

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2017 female Banded Fluorescent Corn Snake for sale. She is 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.   Her $185.00 USD price includes     Humble apologies to the dozens of inquires that were told–by me–that we didn’t have any Fluorescent corns for sale recently.  I didn’t expect to sell this 2017 female this year, and actually hope I don’t.  I stumbled upon an extra 2016 female I forgot I was holding back to be a future breeders, so this one is suddenly surplus.  S O L D

Specter 12-24-17d

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2017 female Specter corn snake for sale. She is 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  A common pattern feature of many serpent species is eye color that is adjacent to similar facial color and pattern, so as to initially render the eye(s) undetectable by prey and predator.  I’ve noted on numerous occasions, when photographing snakes, that when I move to attempt a different angle pose of a snake, their head follows my movements.  BUT when I put the camera in front of my face, most of them do not follow the motion of the camera.  The untested deduction is that perhaps many animals don’t necessarily recognize prey or predator if they cannot discern its eyes?  Having facial pattern that continues onto the eye is an ideal way to partially conceal an animal’s eyes. Boa Constrictors are perhaps the most poignant example of eye concealment via lateral facial stripes that are not interrupted by a stripe-less eye (look it up on the Internet via querying Boa constrictor eye).  Then, click on the word Images above your search results.  Her $185.00 USD price includes     S O L D

Two adult Boas we had a decade ago here at SMR.  Note the facial stripe continuing onto the eye, as camouflage for the eyes.

 

Striped Sunkissed 12-23-17d

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2017 male 15″ Striped Sunkissed corn snake.  Where are the Stripes?  While not exhibited on this Striped mutant, if you breed this male to any visibly Striped corn snake mutant, 100% of the progeny will be Striped mutants.  Sunkissed is known to break Stripe and Motley rules by allowing some belly markings/checkering; something that does not happen in most Motley or Striped mutants of most colors (not utterly rare, but seen also in some Lavender Motleys and Stripes).  His $175.00 USD price includes    S O L D    Bonus PIC . . .

Belly pic showing atypical ventral markings for a Striped mutant corn, but not so rare for Sunkissed Motley and Striped mutants.  No, this snake has no Tessera branches in his family tree.

Het 12-22-17d

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If you like Hybrid corns, this one is a bonus.  The parents of this 14″ male 2017 corn snake are an Extreme Sunkissed Okeetee (from Ultramel parentage) and a Creamsicle, so two non-corn snake species are in his family tree; Emory’s Ratsnake and Gray Ratsnake.  The macro head shot demonstrates what seems to be color in the iris that matches surrounding facial markings??  Comically, the eye stripe–adjunct to a matching facial stripe–was a great genetic idea, but not for such a pale mutant as this one.  It would have been more logically successful on a darker snake.  He is currently eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $145.00 USD price includes