Snake of the Day 05-07-15

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This 2014 male Hypo Tessera is now 23″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  He is 50% possibly-het for Striped Ghost. His $265.00 usd price includes     $old

Snake of the Day 05-06-15

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This 2014 male Snow Tessera is now 23″ long, eating frozen/thawed large pinky mice.  His $275.00 usd price includes     Did I mention he’s TRAINED?   UP, SIT, BEG, TONGUE (speak ) . . . . . okay, maybe not speak, but no charge / no guarantees on the TRAINED part. $old

Snake of the Day 05-05-15

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Update on Striped Honey (Striped Sunkissed Caramel) that hatched in 2013.  Surely a look that would be a F A I L in Nature, this snake demonstrates why gene mutants are so popular in our hobby. Bonus pic

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These Palmetto eggs may be a little yellow–compared to textbook corn eggs–but next to stark white, they REALLY look yellow.  Of course, they’re fertile, so who cares what color their incubation vehicles are?   Yellow, fertile corn eggs aren’t as rare as some may think, but these are the first yellow ones I’ve received from a Palmetto?

Snake of the Day 05-03-15

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Some of you have seen this snake featured a time or two on my web site in the past few years.  She was captured in the wilds of Florida, and I acquired her when she was a large hatchling.  Two years ago, I bred her to a wild-caught Miami Locality male and got all “wild-Miami-type” progeny.  This year, she was bred to one of the males from that brood and is now gravid.  I’ll keep everyone apprised of the status of those eggs, and hopefully, we have a new mutation here.  BTW, the irises of her eyes match her body color, so she is not an Anerythristic mutant.  

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Same snake in different pose.  Had this been a male, I would naturally have bred it to a Caramel to find out if this’s a Caramel mutation variant, but since I had only this female to start the project, I concentrated on revealing how her atypical colors were inherited.  Since all of the F1 progeny were “wild-type” corns the indication is that we could have a new corn snake gene mutation here.  If I discover this year that her looks are the result of a mutation that is recessive to wild-type, next year I’ll breed a Caramel to her.  If none of those progeny are Caramels from that pairing, it will, of course, indicate that she is not a Caramel mutant.  

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Looking somewhat Miami Tessera (like most hets for Cinder) this beautiful gravid female was produced by Tom and Linda Thompson in 2012 from pairing a Striped Tessera without black to a Peppermint (Amel Cinder).  Her 2015 mate has the same genes–except Tessera–so I doubt any of her progeny will shame her royal heritage?  Thanks Tom and Linda for making this beauty. I brumated her for 13 months last year or she COULD have produced for me in 2014.  Since she was “on-the-fence” for size I elected to let her sleep all last summer.   

Snake of the Day 04-30-15

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This 2012 male Pewter Motley Corn is now 38″ long, eating frozen/thawed adult mice.  The inside eye looks pale, but that’s only because it did not reflect light from the strobes.  His $335.00 usd price includes