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Corn snakes - Pantherophis Guttatus

I currently have a beautiful breeding group of 4.4 corn snakes. I do not purchase snakes to add the the quantity of animals I own, I select my snakes for pure quality and try to pick the best examples of the moprhs I am working with. I want to specialise in the lavender and hypo cultivar. I feel the hypomelanistic gene can vastly improve the phenotype of a particular base morph ie bloodred, lavender, charcoal etc. I hope to selectivley breed the pinkest hypo lavenders, the palest phantoms and hypo pewters and the most beautiful hypo lavender bloodreds and motleys. Any hatchling I produce will be from 100% perfect parents ie suberb feeders, amazing temprement and top quality colouration. All my corns are captive bred, and come from a diverse range of breeders from the UK, Europe and USA.

Females

Lacey: 05 Serpenco lavender

I have witnessed this snake change from a dull juvenile into a spectacular solid lavender corn with beautiful peachy highlights on her head and neck. I like to destinguish lavenders from hypo lavenders therefore the less peachy, the better. She is also a partial zig zaged specimen and I hope to selectivley breed fully zig zaged or arrberant lavenders. Although this trait completely random to an extent, the fact Lacey is rather abberant (as is Hal) increases my chances of prducing likewise offspring. It should be a very interesting project throughout the years to come. Lacey was bred to Hal, my hypo lavender this year. I am awaiting a second clutch of eggs from her at the moment.

Griet: 06 Serpenco Phantom bloodred (anery b + hypo + bloodred)

This has to be my favourite looking corn snake. I bought her as I wanted a solid silvery grey snake and I think I will get it as she matures. For such a young snake she shows outstanding diffusion and seems to get lighter with ever shed. She will be used in my phantom lavender and hypo pewter projects to produce the most silvery snakes around! She is a small 06 due to being fed on a maintanence died for so long, but she is having absolutly no issues in my care and never refuses a meal! I expect her to be of breeding size in 2009 as I like my females AT LEAST over 400 grams.

Dior: 07 Sunset Lavender motley

I recieved Dior via Hamm September 07. She is from Joe Pierce in the USA. For the first few months I was stumped at what she really was due to her exceptionally peachy colouration. I contacted Joe and showed him pictures. He confirmed that she was from his Sunset lavender motley lines which means she is homo a new strain of hypomelanism. As she continues to grow rapidly her colours are changing more dramatically, becoming lighter and brighter with each shed. She will eventually lose most of her colour but now now I can enjoy this pink freak of a snake. She will be used in many projects to produce my definition of a REAL motley as her pattern is so perfect. I believe she is the first confirmed Sunset lavender motley in the UK, although that doesn't amount to much as the gene is as of yet unproven.

Loralei: 06 Anery het hypo

Loralei is an old skool anery I insisted on owning. She belonged to a friend when I first laid eyes on her and I knew I just had to have this perfect snake. She is the epitome of an anery corn snake with jet black saddles and clean silver background colour with bold belly checks. I bought her shortly after first meeting her and found out my friend had bred her to an oustanding peach ghost as a surprise for me. She is currently gravid and about to lay any day. Since she is het hypo I expect some selectivley bred dark anerys and peach ghost babies.

Males

Lavalle: 07 Reverse okeetee het butter

This boy is currently my only amel corn snake at the moment. I am not a huge fan of orange corn snakes but he was too unusual to pass up. His mother was a candy cane and his father was a butter. He has obviously taken his mothers stark white and orange candy cane look, although he has taken his dads wide borders, therefore IMO giving him a lovely Reverse okeetee candyc ane look. As an adult I think hes going to be something very interesting to look at! I will probably seek out a top quality reverse okeetee female for him to breed to, as theres no point in working this selectivley bred trait into any of the other mophs I currently work with. I will try to refine thick white borders, and brilliant vibrant colours with his offspring in the future.

Riviere: 07 Vanishing anery stripe

This wee boy will play an important role in my lavender breeding program. He will be mated to my Sunset lavender motley female initially to produce motleys/striped motleys het for anery lavender. I hope to produce lavender stripes (my ultimate favourite corn morph) as a bi-product believe it or not. Hes a fiesty hatchling with a stellar feeding response for such as young'un, as such hes doubling his weight each month :)

Hal: 05 Serpenco hypo lavender (hypo + lavender)

With his exceptionally light colouration, I hope to continue to produce lighter and brighter hypo lavenders. I also suspect him to be het amel from those beautiful red eyes and very peachy appearance. If he proves to be het amel he will deffinatley go toward my opal motley projects to produce HIGH CONTRAST opal motleys with Dior, my Sunset lavender motley girl. He was bred to Lacey, my lavender female this year.

Panther: 03 Coral snow (amel + anery + hypo)

This is one of my favourite males. He is a massive 54' inches and weighs in at 960 grams, making him my biggest corn snake. I do not have any breeding plans for him as I do not plan on producing line bred coral snows. He will never leave my home though as he is an exceptional snake with a personality to boot. He is also a very handsom boy with beautiful subtle pastel colouration instead of the harsh pinks and peaches some coral snows show.