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I have a continual problem with my rack systems and water dishes I'm hoping people may have creative solutions for. My snakes keep tipping over their water dishes. I use 12oz and 1oz cups for my large and small tubs. The smallest tubs are no problem, the top of the cage is low enough that the...

Interesting thing today. I had an egg that went to full term and never hatch (day 82 today) and it was all yellow and starting to smell so just to see what could have been I cut it open. The fully formed snake inside was pure white with no markings at all. It came from a butter 66% het charcoal...

Is kinking something that happens in the egg only or can a corn come out fine and kink up afterword? I ask because I inspect each hatching pretty closely after they hatch, I've hatched about 50 this year and all seemed well. However, I went to feed one small clutch for the first time this year...

In two of my pairings this year I've ended up with some really orange coloured amels. I suppose it's possible that it's just a bit of variance, both mothers are very brown and have produced normals that are more on the brown than red. two genetic theories I have is that they could be either het...

My question is: normal or hypo? This fellow was hatched from an all normal clutch; 6 normal looking guys, this fellow, and 3 deformed and kinked ones that I ended up putting down, the eggs suffered an incubator malfunction and were cooked at 110 degrees for about 48 hours and half of them died...

I'm sure in a week or two I'll have a picture thread but I'd like some input to chew on right now. Last year I bred together a normal female (het Amel, Caramel, Diffused) which I had produced 3 years before to fellow I picked up at an expo who was labled "het golddust diffused", so het amel OR...

Reading through the Tessara hybrid theory thread and recalling back to the many ultra/ultramel hybid threads I've been wondering what a hybrid is? My question is about % of purity and at which point does a gene, even one borrowed from a some other Pantherophis or a Lampropeltis, ever become...

I’ve been thinking about a design for something like this since last year. I had multiple hatchling escapes last fall from my current rack set up, which was designed for juveniles and was only being used for hatchlings because I had nothing better to use. My theory on racks is that you buy the...

When you can't eat with your hands, sometimes gravity can help

So this is a rather odd combination. Mixing butter and lavender (or Caramel and Opal, how ever you want to look at it:)) makes kind of a strange snow looking critter. I think I captured the color ok in this shot, it's hard to get the pink base and yellow to show up accurately. if your seeing...

What is more likely to cause a corn snake to throw up, a too hot of hot end of the cage (90 or so) or too cold of a cold end (65 or so)? I do feel like a bit of a noob asking this question. I have been breeding corn snakes on a small scale four over six years and have only recently ran into this...

I'm really sad to come here with such a downer of a situation. My '11 lavender male passed away this morning. He came down with some spots of infection on his skin that I was treating with polysporin. Once I found this I changed his bedding from aspen to paper towel and did a full...

In my ongoing efforts to solve the mystery of my 2 "Orange Butters" I've stumbled upon a new theory. What does a hypo butter look like? (Hypo, Amel, Caramel) Below are pictures of my two orange butters. I purchased them off a fellow who claimed their parents were both serpenco butters. In the...

Since this girl is pretty unique and not many of this combination; Amel, Caramel, Lavender, motley exist happen to exist, I'm posting the most recent pictures I took. If anyone else has a butter lavender, opal caramel, opal butter, AmeCaraLav or what ever you want to call it, I'd love to see...

So, Butter x het caramel amel bloodred. 1 amel, 1 hypo (who knew?), 3 butter and this: Normal or Caramel? Can you help me figure out who's who? let's number them 123 456 Should be about 50/50, randomness says they might all be one or the other but my though is 1 Caramel 2 Normal 3 Caramel...

So my second and final clutch hatched between monday-tuesday of this week. Of the 13 eggs one of them has not hatched yet. It appears to be healthy still. The incubator was giving even heat over all the eggs so cold shouldn't have slowed this one's incubation. Should I consider cutting this egg...

This mystery started back in '07 when I picked up a strange little guy from a breeder selling an "orange butter?" (the label included a question mark). The story is, is that this fellow out of Calgary Alberta had bread 2 butters he claimed to have purchased directly from Rich Z and produced 8...

I was pretty thrilled to find this quad homo at the Western Canadian Reptile Expo last year. Any quad homo snake is cool thing and since I had no idea what she'd turn out like I figured she'd a great one to raise up. So at one year, this is Cordelia. '11 Lavender Caramel Amel Motley Here is...

So this is the first year a few that I decided to produce a few clutches. I've got two this summer, the first one has hatched (3 still just pipping) and given me what I believe is 1 Caramel, 3 Diffused, 3 Normal (one visibly het for diffused) and 2 what I believe to be Ultramel Diffused. Have a...

I made a trade last week of my Columbian Rainbow Boa for some cash and three corn snakes. Nothing fancy in the morph department, normal, amel and anery. But the Normal and Amel are really cool looking. Have a look here Leopold, '08 male, He has a really cool deep red colour but very little...