Here is Udon

[defiguringitout]

Some pictures may vary in quality, but that is because my phone has a pretty bad camera. Will post more later since I have no idea where I put said phone.

He is my first snake ever and I am familiar with its parents, since the person I got him from breeds snakes. I picked him out as a hatchling, he was the 2nd of his siblings to hatch, I believe this is him in the side of the tank.

Annnd here is an image of when he was shipped to my friend, he was shipped along with his parents.

And me handling him for the first time. Fortunately, he did not inherit his father's temperament and seemed to adjust really quickly.

And a photo of him drinking water after his second feeding. I am so entertained by how snakes drink water, so I was glad I could witness him doing it ahaha.

Again, will update with newer pics when I finish some chores, but I am definitely enjoying this sweet little child c:!

 

[Squeak]

Udon is a beautiful baby!

 

[defiguringitout]

Udon is a beautiful baby!

Thanks <3!

 

[DollysMom]

What a darling little snow noodle! Looking forward to seeing more pics as he grows.

 

[axis1]

:iagree: Ditto Defig!

That's a cute little snow baby! Am I seeing things (quite possible with all the psychopharmaceuticals I've ingested during my years attempting Better Living Through Chemistry!) or were any of those little pippies breaching their eggs of a morph other than snows? Just curious. Out of twenty-something hatchlings this summer, my Lilly has produced ALL snows except for the one little runt from her first clutch who is a red-striped amel, with a small kink in her tail (named her Kinky but decided not to keep her because I already have too many and I found a loving home for her anyway. I have 9 snow hatchlings left, 3 from the first clutch and the 6 from Lilly's second clutch who are ALL MAMMOTH hatchlings compared to the first batch, ranging from 9 through 13 grams out of the eggs!).

So how many little sneaky ones do you have altogether. (Sorry, it wasn't clear to me from what you wrote other than that you have the snow's dad?).

In any event, hope you stick around! We seem to have lost quite a few folks who most probably just went back to work or school after the summer (hope they reappear, but you know how these things go).

 

[Hikari]

So cute! Love the name. You're lucky to have gotten a pic of him drinking! I've only ever seen mine do it like twice...they're so elusive about it.

 

[defiguringitout]

What a darling little snow noodle! Looking forward to seeing more pics as he grows.

Thanks c:!
He already got some length to him since I have got him. I am really enthralled by a snake's growth :0!

 

[defiguringitout]

:iagree: Ditto Defig!

That's a cute little snow baby! Am I seeing things (quite possible with all the psychopharmaceuticals I've ingested during my years attempting Better Living Through Chemistry!) or were any of those little pippies breaching their eggs of a morph other than snows? Just curious. Out of twenty-something hatchlings this summer, my Lilly has produced ALL snows except for the one little runt from her first clutch who is a red-striped amel, with a small kink in her tail (named her Kinky but decided not to keep her because I already have too many and I found a loving home for her anyway. I have 9 snow hatchlings left, 3 from the first clutch and the 6 from Lilly's second clutch who are ALL MAMMOTH hatchlings compared to the first batch, ranging from 9 through 13 grams out of the eggs!).

So how many little sneaky ones do you have altogether. (Sorry, it wasn't clear to me from what you wrote other than that you have the snow's dad?).

In any event, hope you stick around! We seem to have lost quite a few folks who most probably just went back to work or school after the summer (hope they reappear, but you know how these things go).

Thanks, I am loving him <3! And yep, the clutch yielded mostly bloodreds and butters. His mother was a butter stripe and his father was a bloodred motely, the both of them had a few various recessive traits, including snow and albino. Udon himself has a recessive trait of albino and stripe.

I don't own the parents, my friend who works at a breeding shop in southern California. They had a large clutch, I would have to ask how many exactly though. However I do have a picture of all their corn snake in the shop in the hatching tank, not sure if they are all from the same clutch or mixed in with others

 

[defiguringitout]

So cute! Love the name. You're lucky to have gotten a pic of him drinking! I've only ever seen mine do it like twice...they're so elusive about it.

Thanks, I chose it after making a few puns ahaha. He always seems to drink after he eats, so I get to see him do it often. Usually it isn't at a good angle.

 

[defiguringitout]

Sooo sorry for lack of update, but I had a full 12-9 schedule at school today.
But when I came home today and he had shed :0!
I had coincidentally bought his a nice rock today since I thought he may shed soon. His tail is suck and said rock was able to help it all the way.

Here is him a little bit after I started spraying the cage to add some humidity.

But yessss successful shed <3!

 

[axis1]

. . . His mother was a butter stripe and his father was a bloodred motely. . .

Wow! Coincidentally the same morphs as my Lilly & Chili-Pepper respectively, who recently produced the two clutches & 22 hatchlings out of about 29 eggs (total of 21 snows & 1 striped amel)! My yearling (Ozzy) is a hatchling from a small clutch they produced last year but he looks JUST like his dad (a bloodred motley).

Thanx for the picture though. They certainly are cute when they first hatch out like that!

 

[daddio207]

Wow! Coincidentally the same morphs as my Lilly & Chili-Pepper respectively, who recently produced the two clutches & 22 hatchlings out of about 29 eggs (total of 21 snows & 1 striped amel)! My yearling (Ozzy) is a hatchling from a small clutch they produced last year but he looks JUST like his dad (a bloodred motley).

Thanx for the picture though. They certainly are cute when they first hatch out like that!

Hey Axis1

Just asking which I shouldn't because I suck at genetics. Are you sure the parents of your snow babies are a butter stripe (amel,caramel,stripe) and a bloodred motley (diffused,motley) ? Even by adding het for anery to the Butter and het amel and anery to the bloodred the odds of getting a snow is low! Not that you couldn't get a snow out of each egg since the odds pertain to each egg and not the clutch BUT WOW that's like Johnny Appleseed hitting oil every time he dug a hole to plant a seed !!! (I tried to use a "Axis1" analogy :bowdown: LOL)
Just curious with what's going on with Lilly and Chili-pepper genetics

 

[axis1]

Hey Axis1

Just asking which I shouldn't because I suck at genetics. Are you sure the parents of your snow babies are a butter stripe (amel,caramel,stripe) and a bloodred motley (diffused,motley) ? Even by adding het for anery to the Butter and het amel and anery to the bloodred the odds of getting a snow is low! Not that you couldn't get a snow out of each egg since the odds pertain to each egg and not the clutch BUT WOW that's like Johnny Appleseed hitting oil every time he dug a hole to plant a seed !!! (I tried to use a "Axis1" analogy :bowdown: LOL)
Just curious with what's going on with Lilly and Chili-pepper genetics

Hi there daddio! How ya been?

As far as genetics are concerned, you kinda lost me at "het for anery to the Butter and het amel and anery to the bloodred!" Whoa! That's WAY too much for to wrap my dizzy head around while I have my morning java! Unfortunately I still can't tell an amel from a caramel! That said, after purchasing a book on corn genetics I knew I wouldn't have time to read (unless I step off a curb and get dragged 17 blocks by a milk truck and survive the 6 months in a coma my body would need to recover, I just KNOW it's a futile effort!), I had my adult corns looked at by a couple of breeders who shall remain nameless. Is it possible, perhaps, that they were too quick in their assessment or are they too arrogant or proud to think that what they might think isn't fallible. Both parties who eyeballed my little sneaky ones from head-to-tail also knew that Lilly had produced two clutches of snows this past summer. Last year, strangely, only 3 of 12 eggs hatched and all 3 were drastically different from each other (Ozzy, who survived and is (supposedly) a bloodred motley, Torch & Noodles, both who didn't survive, were an amel & another type of snow). However, there is also another variable I neglected to mention as far as any hatchlings Lilly produced is concerned: Bozo also mated with her since all 3 adult corns were cohabbed up till this past April. Now that we're discussing it, I'm not even so sure Bozo IS what I thought he WAS. (I doubt you could ascertain what morphs they are by pictures, but you could give it a try by viewing the albums I have in the public profile area).

In any case, until I have read and processed the tome I purchased on the genetics of corns, maybe I should defer any judgements I may have on what morphs my little sneaky ones MAY or MAY NOT be.

I appreciate your inquiry, nevertheless, as if my post were to go unchallenged, I most probably would continue to think I knew what morphs my corns are! Thank you for that!

Thanx also for the metaphor! Doesn't have to be great to be appreciated. I guess growing up in an Italian family with a lot of uncles and in Brooklyn did have its positive aspects, the pros definitely outweighing the cons in my opinion! However, one double-edged sword was the designation of aliases or nicknames. I didn't know what my real first name was until a nun slapped the sh** outta me for not answering to it in the first grade! By then, I had TWO nicknames and thought the most commonly-used one was the real one! (One of the reasons I can't even go to the aquarium anymore! I mean, the penguins look TOO MUCH like the nuns from catholic school! PTSD certainly DOES have long tentacles!).

 

[daddio207]

Sorry OP for going :-offtopic

Hey Axis1
I really just wanted to enjoy reading another funny post this morning by asking about your snake's genetics :laugh:

Also growing up in an Italian family would say that it is the Brooklyn influence that made you who you are. :crazy02:

As I suspected Mom is a Snow which is a amel and anery combo. I didn't see pics of Dad(s) but having first hand experience with people labeling snakes with a lot of red Bloodreds I would say the dad has to be a amel with the recessive gene for anery. I actually had a pair produce babies for me this year that was a snow and a anery het (recessive gene) for amel and the out of the eggs that hatched 66% were snows. As far as the lonely amel stripe in the clutch I'm staying away from guessing. After getting schooled in another thread I think I'd rather get hit by that milk truck than say whether it is really a stripe verses a motley :sidestep:

 

[axis1]

Sorry OP for going :-offtopic

Hey Axis1
I really just wanted to enjoy reading another funny post this morning by asking about your snake's genetics :laugh:

Also growing up in an Italian family would say that it is the Brooklyn influence that made you who you are. :crazy02:

As I suspected Mom is a Snow which is a amel and anery combo. I didn't see pics of Dad(s) but having first hand experience with people labeling snakes with a lot of red Bloodreds I would say the dad has to be a amel with the recessive gene for anery. I actually had a pair produce babies for me this year that was a snow and a anery het (recessive gene) for amel and the out of the eggs that hatched 66% were snows. As far as the lonely amel stripe in the clutch I'm staying away from guessing. After getting schooled in another thread I think I'd rather get hit by that milk truck than say whether it is really a stripe verses a motley :sidestep:

Hi there daddio! How ya been?

Doesn't take much to get me goin', but that's OK, it's all good. I truly don't know much about the genetics component, all I know is that they are all beautiful little creatures and I am grateful I discovered corns because they are so easy to care for and are great pets. My first snake - as an adolescent -was a garter snake who didn't live so long. He was an adult when I got him and I'm uncertain of their lifespans, but it wasn't an altogether wonderful experience as his diet consisted of goldfish & earthworms and while he was pretty to look at, keeping and caring for him was uneventful, to say the least. My second snake was a gorgeous black racer that I had for about three years, until he developed a mild case of mouth rot that I was successfully treating with the supervision of a vet. However, because he couldn't swallow mice while being treated, I made the mistake of giving him some wild-caught frogs! A no-no that I wasn't aware of at the time. Needless to say, he contracted some type of parasite and circled the drain pretty quickly! I was devastated! The next snake I had was a boa constrictor who lived with me for about 15 years until a nosy neighbor called animal care and control on me! Apparently, boas or any snake over 6 feet were illegal within the 5 boroughs of NYC unless you had some type of permit back in the 1980's and I had to forfeit him to the city, who maintained him in a pretty decent environment at the Staten Island Zoo, which was famous for its reptile house. Not sure how long he lived because at some point I had to go upstate, er. . . on an extended fishing trip! Needless to say, by the time I returned I was into other things.

However, the discovery of corns as viable pets occurred by accident, kinda, when I rehomed a milk snake to a dude who was - and IS - a veep at the NY Herpetological Society who showed me his collection of cornsnakes (he cohabbed them and from there, I thought it was fine). This guy also had an extensive collection of other species and seemed like an expert at keeping snakes. Just goes to show you that you can get bum data from just about anywhere. He DID mention that there was no research that shows that corns do better living communally. However, he neglected to mention the negative aspects and the controversial components of cohabitation of corns. That was 8 years ago. I purchased 3 corn hatchlings from a Petco or Petland (can't remember which, but I believe it was the former) and haven't looked back since! They are, to me, the best! Lilly, Bozo, & Chili-Pepper continue to thrive and reproduce regularly now. I also kept Ozzy, one of their offspring from last year. I doubt I will be keeping any of the 9 snow hatchlings I have now, but you never know! My thing is, if I can't provide an optimal quality of life & care for them, I won't be keeping them. I care too much about them to be neglectful in any way. So, I am looking for homes for them now. No rush, as I want to ensure that wherever they go, that they will be cared for appropriately.

Sorry for the longwinded response! (I know it's still OFF_TOPIC!) So there y go! My brief history of snake-keeping in a nutshell! Knowledge of morphs & genetics will be upcoming (I HOPE!)..