SMR Archive

This 2014 female Caramel Striped Tessera is now 21″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium or large pinky mice.

This 2014 female Charcoal Terrazzo now 16″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  While her eyes look a little “buggy”, it’s not an uncommon look in such a slender mutant as Terrazzo. Also, the absence of facial color and markings–which are elemental in disguising the size and location of a snake’s eye–renders a super-ocular appearance.

Same snake in different light and pose. 

This 2014 male Caramel Tessera is now 18″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium pinky mice.

This 2014 female Pewter Corn is now 19″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium pinky mice.

This 2014 Charcoal Tessera is possibly a Pewter Tessera, but since I’m on-the-fence about its belly markings, I’m defaulting to the obvious phenotype.  He’s 19″ long, eating frozen/thawed medium pinky mice.

Male Pied-sided Bloodred Tessera corn snake.  He has precious little lateral white, but enough to ensure that he possesses the P/S (Pied-sided) gene mutation. That gene barely exhibited, he’s stunning in appearance and very calm, and.  
He is currently about 20″ long, eating unaltered frozen/thawed medium to large pinky mice.

2014 female Lavender from parents het for Salmon Snow and Lavender.

Same snake in a different pose. 

2014 female Red Mask Anery corn snake.  Naturally, this much pink on any Anery corn is rare, and worthy of appreciation, but I honestly think I like the extreme color depth of black in this snake just as much. Males usually don’t have this depth of black.

Same snake in a different pose. 

Growth update:  Not much to say yet about this 2014 Bloodred Tessera from the pairing of two snakes (one being Tessera) from Rich Hume’s “white-sided Striped Granite”.  I realize that snake has not been proven to have any new mutations, so it’s more accurately called an extreme Pied-sided Granite.  With a wee bit of lateral white on this one, it’s at least safe to say that it’s a P/S Bloodred Tessera, but since the grandsire (the Granite with all-white lower laterals) didn’t hatch that way, no way to know how this one will mature?  I’ll keep everyone posted.

Same snake in a different pose. 

 

This 2013 male Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna) is now 21″ long, eating unaltered frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  His locality is the first High cut on Juno Road in Val Verde, County, Texas.