Recent content by Frank Pinello

A funny thing happen today when I was working with my corn snakes in my garage down here in South Florida. Around 6pm I went into my garage where I keep my corns to separate a lemon Tessera male from his honey striped mate that I place together about an hour earlier and saw confirmation evidence...

Can anyone share their experience breeding Tessera to Tessera? I remember reading somewhere that there has not been a homogeneous Tessera proven and that the theory is that homozygous Tessera die during egg development. Has anyone heard this before or has any info they can share? Thank you.”

Has anyone had any experience feeding their corn snake Reptilinks? I an considering purchasing some quail reptilinks as a supplement once in a while for my collection but maintain mostly on mice. I’ve heard that they are easier to digest and therefore get more nutrients from them. Might be good...

I have been breeding nine different females with six different males this year....right now in the middle of it....and out of the about 20 hookups there have been 3 instances of blood left behind. Twice with one female and once with another female. I’ve seen this before over the years but I am...

Hi all. I wanted to hear what type of containers you breeders used to incubate corn snake eggs, I have been using old fashion clear acrylic shoe boxes with loose fitting lids since the 90s. Finally thinking of updating. I have seen some people use Tupperware but I wonder how that works with air...

Brace’s Exotics face book page has photos of a group of hatchlings what he calls leopard corn snakes. Has anyone heard of these, know any history on them? Thanks

A couple of years ago I kept 1.2 normal hatchlings that came from clutch I hatched of about 12 or so normal hatchlings. This clutch was produce by a amel motley male x blood red female which I had purchased from Different reptile expos down here in Florida. Both of these parents had no known...

Beauty is in the Eye of the beholder. Everyone has their own opinion. But the more I look at "scaleless" corns the more I prefer scaled corns. They also come from Emory bloodline (strike two!). Although very interesting they are really something I don't want in my collection. Anyone with me?

Got lucky today. I keep all my corn snakes in my garage and over many years I had 4 or 5 corns escape. Once they escape I never find them again. About 2 weeks ago one of my favorites, a 10 month old lava sunkissed corn, was missing from his enclosure. I still can't figure out how he escaped. All...

I have been raising a breeding corn snakes for many years and have always provide frozen thawed mice as a food source. I have a local mouse breeder who also sells frozen baby chicks an it occurred to me that a baby chick mixed in every couple of months my be beneficial to the nutrition of my...

The snakes below are bothers from the same clutch. The one in the top photo is an anery het for hypo & Bloodred(Diffused) The second photo is of a anery bloodred(Diffused) het hypo. It is very interesting to me how the diffused morph mixes the colors together. Frank Pinello

5 month old.....the red starting to "creep" in. Frank Pinello

Here are a few more photos... Frank Pinello

Which one is the hypo pewter and which is the ghost bloodred....? Frank Pinello

Boy, this took a few years but I finally hatched a keeper (I hope). Very light hypo too. Frank Pinello P.S. don't have any for sale.