SMR Archive

$OLD

This male 2013 Tessera Het Amel (from a High-white Reverse Okeetee parent) is 28″ long, eating frozen/thawed small hopper mice.  His $325.00 price includes

Show & Tell

How many heads are visible/partially visible in this photograph of a 2014 brood of corn snakes from parents that are Anery, het Avalanche (Het Snow Bloodred)?  

$OLD

{product id=719}

This 2013 Male Tessera Het Striped Butter is currently 23″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.  His $375.00 price includes  $OLD 

 

Show & Tell

The Corn Snake at the point of that RED arrow looks to be a high-white Pied-sided Granite, but probably isn’t?  I’ll get pix of it after the first shed. 

Show & Tell

Not the rare morphs they once were, Pewter Motleys remain popular in the hobby toDAY. 

Show & Tell

2014 Terrazzo and Charcoal Terrazzo corn snakes.  I initially set out to demonstrate a Pewter Terrazzo when this project began, but in so much as I have probably unwittingly produced one by now–but cannot distinguish between the Pewter and Charcoal forms–I doubt the original target morph will have added market value over its Charcoal counterpart.  If Terrazzo pattern is impacted on the Tessera mutation the way Bloodred (Diffused?) does with other colors and patterns , Pewters could have a “shattered” stripe pattern, instead of what we see in these two Terrazzos (which surely indicates that this one is Charcoal and not Pewter)?  Now, through selective-breeding, I’ll concentrate on reducing the exhibition of dorso-lateral striping.  That will take another few generations.  Pursuit of passion (addiction)??

Show & Tell

2014 Striped Tessera Corn Snakes. I hope to someDAY hatch one of these completely devoid of the dorso-lateral stripes on either side of the dorsal ground field, but to date, there are perhaps only one of these with only partial striping for every ten Tesseras with prominent striping from neck to tail tip.  Bonus Pic . . .

Show & Tell

2014 Striped Anery Tessera corn snakes.  Note the ground-zone widths between the dorso-lateral stripes on these two?  This is a poignant apples-to-apples demonstration of the distinction between narrow and wide dorsal ground fields between dorso-lateral stripes (wider dorso-lateral striping renders narrower dorsal ground zone between).  Before the Tessera Mutation was discovered, this pic would demonstrate exaggerated examples of the difference between a Striped Anery Corn and a Striped Anery Motley Corn, but such is not the case when Tessera is added to the genotype.  Regarding Tesseras, theories abound, but what causes the striped distinction exhibited in this photograph is still unproven?   When someone discovers why (Joe & Mitch? etc.), please, share it with all of us.   Bonus Pic . . .

Show & Tell

2014 Striped Tessera and Striped Amel Tessera.  Note the dorsal ground-zone width between the dorso-lateral stripes on the non-Amel?  We’re not yet certain why some have the narrow dorsal ground field while others are wider like this one.  Most Tesseras with the wide dorsal zone have stripes that wane from neck to tail, while most of them with a narrow dorsal ground field tend to maintain their dorso-lateral striping from head to tail-tip.  As with all morphs/mutations in corns, there are exceptions to most pattern feature norms within any given species.   Bonus Pic . . .

Show & Tell

2014 RED-HEADed Palmetto Corn Snake.  We don’t hatch many of these, but when we do, they still WOW me.  Since we’ve sold all the best ones in the past two years, I have no idea how they look at maturity?  If one of our Palmetto customers presents a picture of an adult or sub-adult, I’ll feature it on a new S.O.T.D. for everyone to see.