Snake of the Day 03-19-15

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This adult High-white Reverse Okeetee female isn’t the typical High-white.  Orange markings set her apart from the classic Red and White members of this selectively-bred Amel morph.  This one doesn’t seem as white as most because there is so much yellow. See tomorrow’s S.O.T.D. for the perfect High-white.  The only gene mutation in this snake is Amel (unless the yellow borders are someDAY proven to be caused by a mutation?). 

Snake of the Day 03-18-15

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This 2012 female Amel is 43″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.   She is from a “pet” project of mine years ago producing high yellow Amels from the pairing of Sunglow Motleys to Butters. Hence, this one is het for Caramel (therefore, Butter) and Motley.  She brumated from mid-November, 2014 to mid-February, 2015 so she is almost ready (if not NOW ready) to wed?  Her $275.00 price includes FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING  $OLD

 

Snake of the Day 03-17-15

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This 2013 female Buf is 36″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.   The inherent value of Buf mutants is that their mutation is dominant to wild-type, so no waiting two generations to reproduce this mutation.  She was brumated from November 20, 2014, to March 10, 2015, so she will be receptive to a male very soon.  Her $295.00 price includes   includes FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING  

 

Snake of the Day 03-15-15

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This 2013 female Tessera is not quite as pattern-shattered as the one featured yesterDAY, but quite the looker.  She is 35″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.   Her $295.00 price includes FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING  

Snake of the Day 03-14-15

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This 2013 female Tessera demonstrates that some of them can have amazingly fragmented pattern.  She is 34″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.   Her $295.00 price includes FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING  $OLD

 

 

 

Snake of the Day 03-06-15a

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2013 Leucistic and Visual-Het Leucistic Gray-banded Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis alterna).  As detailed in previous SOTD and daily SMR FaceBook features, this Visual Het Grayband demonstrates a Hypo-esque look that is common in snakes that are het for the gene mutation, Leucism.  In fact, the inheritance of most Leucistic serpents is dominant to wild-type (not recessive) and therefore most F1 out-crossed progeny (hets) have a pale hypomelanistic phenotype similar to this Gray-banded King. Aside from the inherent value of the pattern-less and color-less Leucistic Alterna, the visual-hets are stand-alone beautiful morphs.    . . .

Snake of the Day 03-12-15

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Two of our 2013 Leucistic Gray-banded Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis alterna).  The orange one in the center is the one I feature every few months to show the changing of his orange “blush” of color.  Not nearly as colorful as their nominate form, leucistic mutants of this species are none-the-less rare in our hobby.  

Snake of the Day 03-07-15a

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This 2014 male Scaleless Anery Corn Snake has very few random scales above the belly, and mostly relegated to the posterior regions (other than the usual scales around the lips).  He (and some Het Scaleless corns) will be offered for sale on the table of a friend at Tinley Park NARBC expo starting SaturDAY, March 14th.  If you don’t find him, look for Terri Bienkowski to ask where he (this Anery Scaleless) and his het buddies are.  Terri will also have a couple of female 2014 Palmettos to sell for me at Tinley.

Snake of the Day 03-10-15

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This 33″male Reverse Okeetee corn hatched in 2013 and is currently eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.  He is a brother to the male Okeetee featured as S.O.T.D. on March 3, 2015.  He brumated from December 20, 2014 to February 15, 2015.  His $135.00 price is the result if him trying to bite me three times while being photographed, and includes      One of this snake’s parents was a Tessera.