SMR Archive

DO NOT ask me to shoot this gang again. This is the first shot, and two heads were missing from the second shot. That was just seconds before I nearly dropped the camera to scramble for snakes going in four different directions.  The High-white Orange Reverse Okeetee is still M.I.A. Tape traps will hopefully entangle that bugger before morning.  Uhhhggghh. Counting heads from the uppermost one in the pic to the lowest, they are: 1)  The now MIA Orange High-white Reverse Okeetee, 2) A classic Reverse Okeetee, 3) An Extreme Reverse Okeetee, 4) A High-white Reverse Okeetee.  BTW, number 3 is the same general age (within perhaps 15 DAYs) of all the others, but has been on a twice-weekly feeding regimen–compared to once a week for the others.  Note how relatively larger he is compared to the others?   At this rate, he should be mature enough to breed in 2014.  

UPDATE:  Found her under a piece of cardboard near the corner of the shop where we toss recycle stuff.  I COULD have recycled a perfectly good snake, had she decided to move into one of the boxes in that corner.  Note to self – – – don’t send out recycle containers without searching them for snakes.  

Two 2013 examples of High-white Reverse Okeetee Corns.  Impossible not to note how they look like Candy Cane morphs, but there are subtle distinctions that make them worthy of unique morph status.  Good examples of both morphs (Candy Cane and High-whites) are predominantly red and white, but you can see that there is a visible off-white margin around the blotches of these two High-whites.  This isn’t enough to make them visually distinct from some Candy Canes, but having origins from Reverse Okeetee morphs, you save perhaps four to six generations of enlarging the blotch margins by not starting with Candy Canes.  At the end of the DAY, visually, we’re talking semantics.  If you find corns listed as Candy Canes that look like these, grab ’em.  They have the potential for reproducing the same reds and whites, but when you see a High-white with super-broad blotch margins (not these two), you’ll understand why it’s better to start with High-whites over most Candy Canes.  It’s all in the genes. 

 

Male Kastanie Bloodred.

Note the distinctions between Ultramel Anery and Ultramel Charcoal.  The eye of the Charcoal from

almost appears not to have an iris, and while both Anery and Charcoal can have a blush of pink

 on their faces, it’s much more obvious on Charcoal-types. The origins of the Ultra mutation

in corn snakes derives from the initial pairing of a Gray Rat Snake to a Corn.  Therefore,

Ultra (and Ultramel) types are technically inter-speciesl hybrids. 

 

 

Tessera Het Sunkissed. Breeding this female to a Sunkissed male will yield some Sunkissed Tessera hatchlings.

 

This 2013 Amel Buf is now 16″ long and eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.  Of course, Amel is a mutation that is recessive to wild-type, but this is also a homozygote of the dominant mutation, Buf.  Pairing this to any corn snake other than a Buf-type results in approximately 50% Buf corns in the first out-crossed generation.  If bred to any Amel, all of the progeny will be Amels, approximately half of which will be Amel Buf corns.  

The parents of this 37″ long male Anery corn are two normal corns het for Kastanie and Anery.  Therefore, I cannot say if he is actually an Anery Kastanie or just an Anery.