Essentially a classic male Granite corn snake mutant, demonstrating the wash of pink that is seldom seen in females. Being an Anery homozygote (in addition to Bloodred), he demonstrates the color-dimorphic phenotype that distinguishes males from females by color.
This 28″ long female Tessera is from the pairing of a Tessera to a Coral Snow. Therefore, this female is het for Amel + Anery = Snow, Motley, and possibly the Red Mask Mutation (if the respective red-type mutation this one possesses is recessive to wild-type).
This 2011 female Terrazzo is now 24″ long, eating frozen/thawed large fuzzy mice.
Terrazzo mutants (originally called GRANITE corns) were first discovered in the 1990s by Craig Boyd on one of the Florida Keys (this mutation is genetically recessive to wild-type). The lean-bodied purely corn snake mutation originates in Key Corns (aka: Rosy Rats) so the predominate color is tan like most Rosy Rat Snakes. In the most extreme examples of the mutation, virtually no recognizable pattern is obvious. Even the best usually show vestigal striping, extending perhaps just one to three inches from the neck, toward the tail. From there aft, minute, random, and numerous freckling that is darker brown than the ground color zones are evident. Some Terrazzos have obvious dorso-lateral striping more than half-way down the body, starting at the neck. From there – in addition to the namesake freckling – the dorso-lateral longitudinal stripes break up to disorganized broken-stripes. The name GRANITE now applies to the mutation compound Diffused Anery (aka: Anery Bloodred).
This 2011 hatchling male is either a Visual-Het Striped Tessera Mutant, or a merely a Striped Mutant (albeit virtually perfectly striped). Whichever pattern mutation he turns out to be his parents were Tessera Het Blue Motley (aka: Dilute Anery Motley) bred to a Blue Motley. Therefore, this snake is het for Dilute and Anery (aka: Blue).
