SMR Archive

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

Part of a brood of Extreme Reverse Okeetees.  Most of the lavender/lilac/violet areas will be different shades of white at maturity. 

 

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

This blended image virtually shows both sides of a 2013 hatchling Scaleless Anery Corn Snake.  

This one has belly scales that overlap the ventral keel (ventro-lateral ridge) but otherwise, random

scale clusters are few, and far between.    Their “bug-eyed” appearance is the result of scales missing

around the eyes. 

 

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

 

 

The first 2013 Butter Tessera is a cutie.  The response-to-stimulus reaction that hatchling snakes employ most is backing up. While encouraging this one to stop stretching out (so I could get a tight shot), like sucking back into an egg when startled by proximity motion, it just decided to keep backing up.  When its tail touched the corner of the egg box, like still being in the egg, it was not deterred.  In reverse, it just followed the path of least resistance right out of the egg box.  A tap on the tail tip and it posed for this tall shot.  

 

 

The Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

 

Last year, some of our Palmetto customers commented on how little color the hatchlings had (an understandable question when they just paid $4,000.00 for their teeny white snake).  Here is a picture of one of our breeders with some of her 2013 hatchlings.  Obviously, they are pink now — which will slowly transform to white with maturity — but the few color flecks they have now will also saturate with color through maturity.  Also, the number of color flecks they currently have will at least double in volume with maturity.

 

 

OOPS !  We’re experiencing technical difficulties at SMR this morning.  Drew is feverishly working to correct them, but until I’m able to upload images to the web site,

I’ll leave yesterDAY’s SOTD here.  The SunDAY (HAPPY DAD’S DAY TO YOU FATHERS), June 16, 2013 SOTD will feature an image of an adult Palmetto

with some of her newly hatched 2013 kids.  The “metamorphosis” they undergo from hatchling to adult is shocking.

Since I still can’t upload pix to my web site, go to our FaceBook page to see toDAY’s Snake of the Day.  

 

The  Snake-of-the-Day headliner of this web site features photographs that we believe will interest our web site visitors.  Each daily photograph will be posted at 11:00 am. central (GMT – 5) and replaced in 24 hours. Feel free to make suggestions regarding what snake photographs you would like to see in this daily feature.   The animals pictured here are not for sale, unless otherwise noted, but you can find available surplus snakes for sale on the Surplus Page of this web site.  We appreciate your patronage and welcome any suggestions you may have.

   

 

Glorified Blizzard?  She probably doesn’t look like much more than that, but when mature she’ll be quite different since she is a Blizzard Palmetto and/or a Snow Palmetto.  I’m only calling her blizzard since she resembles one, but without knowing certainly what a Snow Palmetto looks like, I could be mistaken. I seriously don’t expect a visual distinction between the two (Snow and Blizzard Palmettos), but they may look identical, AND just like the Amel Palmettos?  No, this was never our goal when we first bred a pattern-less and color-less Blizzard Het Anery (snow) to the original wild-caught Palmetto, but I’ll chronical her appearance changes for everyone.  Naturally, she shouldn’t look any different than an Amel Palmetto, since features of the Palmetto mutation obviously mask all other genetic patterns and colors, but it was her Charcoal and Anery by-products we were soliciting when we began this arm of the mutation project.  They’re difficult to see, but if you squint reallllly hard, you can barely see some orange flecking — that will obviously become more pronounced through maturity.  I’ve identified at least one Charcoal Palmetto so far, but after they all shed, I think I may have an Anery Palmetto as well. 

Here’s a different angle on the Sunrise mutant that I showed next to her egg a few DAYs ago.  This shows the ventral-lateral orange markings that would never been seen on a Snow; demonstrating that she is indeed a Sunrise mutant that will acquire the look of a typical Amel in mere weeks and continue to color-saturate for the rest of her life.  By the time she’s a yearling, she’ll have higher color saturation than most Sunglow corns.  Many years ago, such richly-colored Amels were sometimes called Dayglow or Fire corns.  ToDAY, the name FIRE describes the Amel Bloodred (aka: Diffused Amel).  

   

Fortunately for me (and two dozen 2013 customers), I had overlooked a clutch of 20+ eggs from a pair of Banded Fluorescent corns (part of which is shown above-right).  They shed yesterDAY, so I will be offering them their first meals toDAY.  5-7 DAYs later, I’ll offer a second unaltered frozen/thawed pinky mouse to each of them, and after four DAYs of digesting, I will begin setting up shipping schedules for them.  Here-to-fore, I thought I had only seven eggs hatching this early – from a different pair of Banded Fluorescents, but this clutch completely surprised me (too many eggs incubating).  They look like a GREAT lot, as this picture shows all of them in the middle of their first shed.  Historically speaking, 98% of this brood will never refuse a meal – from week one.  Like their parents (mother, left-hand image), these will mature to have clean and saturated triads with crisp-white band margins.  HOW MANY HATCHLINGS ARE IN THE PHOTO ON THE RIGHT??  Ctrl key along with the + key will enlarge the page. 

 

    

The answer to yesterDAY’s quiz, “HOW MANY HATCHLINGS ARE IN THIS PHOTO??” is 15.    

This image reveals three of the shy ones, in case you missed them.  Also, a Blue dot for one eye of each snake.