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Shiari said:
Oooo... I LOVE that red-on-yellow color contrast!
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Thanks, Megan! Yes, I was quite pleased with it's ontogenetic transformation myself, especially still being so young. :)

I sold that one and it's sibling shortly after that photo was taken to a good friend around two years ago. I will have to remember to ask him if he still has it and what it became as it matured more.


~Doug
 
RangerJay said:
Wow! What a difference! I was kind of hoping for a unique color, my first ever pet snake was a cream-sickle corn, but I also happen to love the natural colors too! When this little guy, whom I've decided to name "Yogi," grows up he'll play a great role in teaching youngsters about snakes.
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Your wanting to teach youngsters about snakes and their natural history with that specimen is an absolutely FABULOUS idea in my opinion! Sparking the interest of snakes with kids is the entire future of the hobby, as well as the snakes habitat conservation. All animals for that matter.. :)

Congratulations, and best wishes with raising the corn up.



cheers, ~Doug
 
Oh, I just found an entire clutch photo of that one I previously posted and all of it's siblings for you to see. I wish I knew what all of them looked like now! :)


~Doug

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Here is the mother. She was captured by the steps of a turnpike entrance office in Orlando, Florida.

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Those are some good lookin' corns! My little guy has been in hiding for the past few days, but when he re-emerges I'm looking forward to watching the color change!
 
RangerJay said:
Those are some good lookin' corns! My little guy has been in hiding for the past few days, but when he re-emerges I'm looking forward to watching the color change!
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Thanks!......yes. you will definitely see a huge change in yours as it matures. They naturally have a very diverse phenotypes.

Here is another corn I found across the street where I used to live on the east coast of central Florida. She was a small yearling or so when I first found her, and she matured into a beautiful and very large adult (5-1/2 feet).

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Here is a HUGE clutch she had later on. She laid like 35 good eggs! A couple were buried in the substrate outside of her lay box, and I wasn't quite able to save them in time.

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Anyway, as you can see, all normal corns hatch out much darker and blander looking than they will look as they mature more :)

cheers, ~Doug
 
Florida has some beautiful native corns! Maryland has a very similar type, just more orange. I truly hope that little Yogi turns out to look like the one you found in your neighborhood.
 
RangerJay said:
Florida has some beautiful native corns! Maryland has a very similar type, just more orange. I truly hope that little Yogi turns out to look like the one you found in your neighborhood.
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Yes, it sure does, but then again so do many other areas of the east. I know you will be pleased with how Yogi turns out.

Here is a true "Miami" wild corn I had years ago that was found in Broward county just above Miami/Dade county. I LOVED the looks of this sweet girl!

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Here is another true Miami corn found near Everglades National Park in Miami/Dade county.

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A nice hypo and another normal hatchling

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A crazy aberrant I have that was found ner Everglades National Park in extreme southern Miami/Dade.

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a very cool "buckskin" phase found near the Park as well

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neat looking yellowish belly too

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Sadly I found this awesome looking DOR corn while walking my dog one night on the narrow barrier island of Satellite Beach, Florida just south of Cape Canaveral. It was hit by a car, so I took it off into the grass and went and got my camera for a photo. This particular specimen sort of resembled the "rosy", or "Keys" corns once known as "Elaphe g. rosascea". It had a very muted head pattern and a light creamy orange tone to it's coloration.

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A truly bizarre looking aberrant hypermelanistic Miami corn found in Broward county. Notice the very dark gray background and crazy black that goes half-way across the back in some places and other random areas...weird!. This girl was meaner than the devil himself!!. ALWAYS coiled defensively and in the "S" position, vibrating the tail and would strike repeatedly at anything that came close enough. :shrugs: She looks fairly sweet here in the pic, but in reality that is not the case at all! :)

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