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This is how messed up my mind is today.  I read the thread title as "A couple of snack pies."  ...and still clicked on the link.

Are pinkies baby mice?  And fuzzies adolescent mice?

toadkiller wrote:

Oh Resedit - our corn snake is doing very well, by the way.  Growing well and eats every time (7 or so days).  Just moving to fuzzies.

Thanks again for the advice.

That's great to hear - here's my '07 corns (much prettier than kings)

Female Abbott's Okeetee


She's popping down two large fuzzies a feeding. I'm hoping she makes it to 36 inches by fall but I doubt it.

Okeetee's aren't a simple morph - they are the most beautiful "normal" corn, Lee Abbott selectively bred them to enhance their natural beauty - producing Okeetee's with thick distinct black borders and gorgeous red saddles in contrast to a nice orange background. I have a male Abbott's Okeetee - he's a year older, and about 3 feet long - packing down 2 adult mice a feeding. If she reaches 3 feet at the rate he did, she can breed next year - but while she's my fastest growing '07 corn - she's not growing as fast as he did. She was bred by Bayou Reptiles.

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Female Caramel



Caramel is an interesting morph - they lack red but have increased yellows. This is interesting because yellow and red are caused by the same pigment, so the gene that causes Caramel affects how the pigment is displayed. She was bred by South Mountain Reptiles.

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Female Charcoal



Charcoal is also known as AneryB - they lack the pigment that makes reds and yellows. AneryA is similar but different. AneryA still results in some yellow on the neck region, AneryB usually does not - and the AneryB have a slightly different look to them.

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Male Lavender Motley



This is my most valuable corn - he's got both the motley and lavender genes displayed. Motley affects the pattern and Lavender affects the color. No one knows for sure what causes Lavender - it is single gene, probably a type of albinism but not tyrosine negative (Amel, IE pink eyed) albinism.

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Male Amel Motley



This is one of the corns I got for free as a non feeder - he feeds well now and is my second biggest '07 corn. He also has two morph genes going on, amel (pink eyed albino) and motley. He's eventually going to live in Colorado - my niece has a garter snake their cat brought in a few years ago, her garter snake is old and won't live much longer - this guy is going to her when her garter snake passes.

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Unsexed hypo



This is also one of the non feeders I received last year - I have two others hypos and a fourth that was given to my little brother. Probably the least valuable corns I have, except they carry the lavender gene. I'm hoping one of my hypos is a female, breeding a hypo het lavender with my male lavender motley will produce a clutch that is 50% lavenders double het hypo motley and 50% normal that are tripple het lavender, motley, hypo.

I haven't sexed any of the hypos yet, since I have 3 of them, there's pretty good odds I have at least one female - so I'll just wait until they are a bit bigger before probing them.

resedit wrote:

I haven't sexed any of the hypos yet, since I have 3 of them, there's pretty good odds I have at least one female - so I'll just wait until they are a bit bigger before probing them.

I just don't know what to say to an opening like that, dude.

Duke Stratosphere wrote:

resedit wrote:

I haven't sexed any of the hypos yet, since I have 3 of them, there's pretty good odds I have at least one female - so I'll just wait until they are a bit bigger before probing them.

I just don't know what to say to an opening like that, dude.

Yeah - that kind of sounds odd ...

sexed as a past tense verb means something different in the snake world than the street world

Last edited by resedit (2008-02-23 11:03 am)

CrashingtehWarehouse wrote:

This is how messed up my mind is today.  I read the thread title as "A couple of snack pies."  ...and still clicked on the link.

  Although I don't think Resedit would appreciate us turning his babies into some new food craze.
It's weird I know but -
I just thought of that scene from Chicken Run where the dolt husband asks his wife "What kind of pies? Apple?" and she says "No. Chicken pies!"

they kind of creep me out

Is this reason enough?

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r103 … /burm4.jpg

Not venomous - he's taming up quite nicely.
It freaks a lot of people out, and it generally does draw blood.

Wild animals are NOT pets.  Hence the "wild."

resedit wrote:

Is this reason enough?

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r103 … /burm4.jpg

Awww! Even cuter!

I love your snake pics, but my favorite thing about the way you take them is the presence of something to give us size perspective.

Given the chance, would she eat him?