Category: Morphs

This 2010 male Striped Champagne Snow is now 29″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. He is just beginning to show saturation of salmon and pink colors. 

This 2010 male Salmon Snow is het for motley..  He is now 29″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

This 2010 female Salmon Snow should be large enough to breed in 2012.. She is now 28″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice.

This 2010 male Striped Salmon Snow is now 28″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. He will be mature enough to breed in 2012.   

This 2010 male Striped Salmon Snow is now 28″ long, eating frozen/thawed fuzzy mice. He will be ready for breeding in 2012.

Blue Striped Motley (aka: Dilute Anery Striped Motley)

Most Commonly Used Name: Blue Striped Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive

Type: Triple Mutation Compound (Dilute + Anery + Motley)

Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground colored iris (usually silver or pale blue)

Combining the three recessive gene mutations; Anery, Dilute, and Striped Motley result in a beautiful compound most commonly referred to as the Blue Motley.  The genetic impact of the Dilute mutation is similar to the Blue Merle Collie and Shetland Sheep dogs – a softening of black – usually resulting in pleasing pale blue or silver colors.  Typically, the Anery and Dilute color mutations do not noticeably affect the Motley pattern mutation, but Motley virtually always improves corn snake colors.

This compound morph results from combining the color mutation, Charcoal with the pattern mutation Diffuse and Hypo.  As with most morph compounds that include Diffuse, the Pewter mutation‘s color effect is greatly diffused (markings sometimes barely visible).  Some have greatly reduced lateral pattern that is obvious result of the original highly diffused Bloodred founding stock of all our Pewters.

 

What to expect:
Many Hypo Pewter hatchlings look like little more than regular Charcoal Corns, but the head should have some form of Diffuse head pattern, and the belly will be devoid of classic Charcoal Corn snake black & white checkering.  The belly pattern can have colors – and even pattern – but not organized checkering. Most Pewters have a soft gray overall appearance, but in the past few years, very dark (virtually black on black) ones have entered the trade.  We founded our Pewter stock by using the most diffused and patternless Bloodreds. 

 

 

Go to History or more details about the DIFFUSED / BLOODRED base mutation of this compound morph.

Combining the two recessive gene mutations Stripe and Diffused (aka: bloodred) renders a pale version of the Diffused mutation, most of which lost their stripe during maturity.

 

What to expect:
I’m sorry that we’re only pictorially demonstrating a neonate specimen, but we have no adults in our current inventory.  To date, all of the Striped Diffused (aka: Striped Bloodred) corns we’ve marketed were produced by or reproduced from Rich Hume stock (arguably the original and premier breeder of more than a dozen different Striped Bloodred types), since we held back a few in past few years, with which to start our own breeding stable of this diverse Morph Line.

Many Striped Bloodreds hatch with partial striping and “tweener” markings (faded markings that appear on the dorsum in zones that would ordinarily be between dorsal blotches in wild-type patterns).  Both tweener and striped markings fade with age, and most adults barely show any pattern, except under strong light.  By adulthood, most Striped Bloodred (Diffused Stripe) types have lost most of their markings, often rendering the appearance of a uni-colored, pattern-less corn snake.  Hence, don’t be disappointed if your neonate Striped Bloodred demonstrates less than perfect markings, because it will likely show no markings at all as an adult.

 

General Note:
While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively identical to each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in no two specimens being exactly the same.  The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will replace your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

Many generations were spent in refining the beauty of the Sunglow Motley.  Their genetic mutation is officially Amel Motley, but they have been selectively bred toward the goal of deeply saturated red coloration and classically orderly Motley pattern.  For years, we were helpless to explain why the colors in this line were so deeply saturated and why they were redder than other genetic lines.  In 2009, one of our friends that wondered the same and conducted breeding trials to determine what caused the intense colors.  She concludes that SMR Sunglow Motleys possess the added mutation of what is sometimes referred to as Red Mask or Red Factor.  It is allegedly inherited in dominant fashion (it is a recently discovered mutation and is still poorly understood).  Once I validate her genetic inheritance findings, the price of Sunglow Motleys will increase, since they will undoubtedly become powerful genetic tools in deepening and saturating reds in other corn snake morphs.

 

 

What to expect:
Sunglow Motley are one of a handful of corn snake morphs that change their appearance very little from hatchling to adult.  Expect neonate Sunglow Motleys to be intensely colored, and while the color transition is fractionally that of other mutations, some saturation of color will occur through maturation.

 

 

 

Vanishing Striped corns are selective variants of the Striped mutation.  At least, that’s what we know toDAY.  Breeding trials by some corn keepers are currently under way to determine if what causes low stripe volume and/or vanishing pattern is a polygenic trait or a mutation.  At this time, it appears that the cause of low stripe volume and/or vanishing pattern is the work of polygenetics.

 

 

 

General Note:
While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively identical to each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in no two specimens being exactly the same.  The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will replace your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.