Snake of the Day 09-18-13

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A beautiful example of the Buckskin Okeetee Morph.   This snake is het for Amel, but not for Caramel (as most would suspect from the pale ground-color).  This 2013 hatchling should be amazing when fully mature. No, that’s not a cleft lip or damage on the rostrum. Nose color and markings render that illusion.

Snake of the Day 09-17-13

 
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Well, all I can say for sure is that this Albino is the product of pairing a Striped Amel Java to a Striped Java Het Amel.  Now, nearly 30″ long, she seems to be demonstrating the latent de-pigmentation we see in Sunrise Amel mutants that are also pattern mutants (stripe in this case).  One more puzzle attached to our quest to identify the inheritance of the mysterious Java ?mutation?.  The overall color seems parallel to many Kastanie Amels (Mandarin Corns), but of course, also what we expect to see in many Creamsicles.  Are Javas unique mutants or something else? 

Snake of the Day 09-14-13

 
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Adult Scaleless Anery Corn Snake.  This is the father of the hatchling Scaleless Anery that was featured about two weeks ago on this web site.
Note the random scale pattern segments on the sides near the tail, running nearly to the middle of the body. His belly is mostly scaled and he 
also has some scales around his “lips” and in the jaw zone behind his eyes. Special thanks to Stephane Rosselle in France for supplying
us with this amazing snake, and also to Richard Dijoux at  https://www.colubiasnakes.fr  in France for discovering the first Scaleless corns.

Snake of the Day 09-11-13

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Our Lava Terrazzo corns are F2s of wild-caught Boyd-Line Terrazzos and have no other Terrazzo blood in them.  These generally have less pattern and more of the signature Boyd-Line Terrazzo colors (generally more tan than the JMG-Line Terrazzos).  Terrazzos were originally called Granite corns for their predominant pattern-less, freckled look, but that name was jacked to label Anery Bloodred (aka: Diffused Anery) mutants over a decade ago when forum participants decided the name Granite was more appropriate for the blacker Bloodred (Diffused) Anery mutants.  The non-Lava forms of these Terrazzos have a distinctly granite appearance, since most of this line has very little striped markings.  Breeding a Boyd-Line Terrazzo to Striped mutants will render no striped progeny (unless respective Terrazzos have one gene copy of the classic Striped mutation).  BTW, being a representative of an insular corn snake race, this snake demonstrates the typically slender body conformation that is classic for Rosy Rat (Key Corn) types, relative to the stockier mainland races of corn snakes.