SMR Archive

This 2014 female Albino Western Hognose has never refused an unaltered frozen/thawed pinky mouse.

2014 male Scaleless Anery Corn Snake.  The Scaleless gene mutation was first discovered in France from the pairing of a Corn to an Emory’s Ratsnake, so all Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY are inter-species hybrids.  This male is approximately 15″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice.

The nice thing about new corn snake projects these DAYs is that we have such a huge inventory of morphs and mutations, there is ample opportunity for even a new-comer in the hobby to be the first to make a new mutation compound.  
This 2013 Tessera offers just such an opportunity.  While no potential to be the first to produce a Scaleless Tessera, but perhaps the first for a Scaleless Anery Tessera since this male Tessera is het for Anery and Scaleless?

He is currently 30″ long and weighs 152 grams empty.  If he is not sold quickly, I’ll put him on the 2015 SMR breeding roster since I fully expect him to be over 36″ when I’m ready to breed snakes this Spring.  Therefore, if breed him to a female with the same genes, the potential for the first Scaleless Anery Tessera is very good, since I have females with the same genotype.

This 2012 female corn is the product of crossing a Java corn with a Kastanie mutant.  She is now 36″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice.

This 2013 male Lava Tessera corn snake is now 34″ long, eating frozen/thawed hopper mice.   Otherwise lateral black color zones being gray is what prompted the originator to originally call Lavas TRANSLUCENT HYPOS.  Aren’t we glad he changed that to LAVA?  We expect him to be mature enough to breed in 2015.

The inherent value of the Blizzard Palmetto is that if you breed one to a Palmetto that is het for Blizzard (Amel and Charcoal), other than common corns, you can get Palmettos, Amel Palmettos, Charcoal Palmettos and Blizzard Palmettos, but I still prefer the classic Palmetto over mutation compounds.  These faint yellow color freckles are only a token expression of yellow, compared to the color expectation we imagine in Butter Palmettos.  Hopefully, in 2015 we will hatch Caramel Palmettos and Butter Palmettos.  The freckling of the Butter Palmettos should be at least twice as yellow as the freckles on this sub-adult Blizzard Palmetto.  Fingers crossed. 

Not just the Classic Opal Motley he appears to be, this one has a Coral-type Snow parent.  Marsha Matthews (poppycorns.com)–from whom I acquired this gem–would be insulted that I casually called one of its parents “Coral”, but I hope she knows that not citing the genetic royalty of this snake is only because I don’t keep up with the lineage of her beautiful corns. The non-Opal parent of this male Opal Motley is Sonnet (Neon X Salmon), for those of you who are familiar with her breeding stock.  Thanks a million, Marsha!

Sub-adult Diffused Lava (aka: Lava Bloodred, since a Bloodred  was used to make this mutation compound).

We were the first to produce Lava Terrazzo Corns (and quite by accident).  Perhaps the strong tan and orange color scheme in them derives from our use of pure Boyd-Line Terrazzos to make mutant compounds like this one?   Out-crossed Terrazzos often stray from the natural predominant buff coloration of many middle-to-lower Key Corns.  In other words, if Terrazzos are bred to non-Key Corns, subsequent generations tend to be less tan than their nominate insular form.

Interesting history of the Sunglow Motley Corn.

We first acquired a pair of sub-adult Sunglow Motleys before they bore that name (Justin Ratts of the Dallas/Ft.Worth area named them at that reptile expo in the mid 1990s) and I have reproduced them ever since.  Most of them had the amazingly symmetric motley markings seen above (on right).  Back in about 2004, Marsha Matthews (POPPYCORNS.COM) told me that from breeding trials with them, she gleaned that they were more color-saturated than virtually all Amel Motleys in the hobby because of a extra gene mutation she called RED MASK (aka: Red Factor)–which is dominant to wild-type.