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Looking for some input on Stubbs

I know there are at least two threads around somewhere that tried to collect that sort of info, but I don't remember what they were titled. I'll look around and see if I can find either of them.
 
DollysMom said:
Stubbs fascinates me. The more and more I look at the side picture where her tail joins her body, I notice the huge break in the side stripe. It goes from wide to almost non existent. It almost looks like her tail is glued on at that point after a chunk, a part that would taper to the tail, was taken out of her body. I'm no good at morphs and don't know what her's is. Can someone else with a similar snake morph/pattern take a pic of that part of the body to compare? Of course I can't say why, but to me that's a what.
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She is a tessera, but other than that is a classic as far as I can tell. I suspect she is also carrying a few hets, but that shouldn't affect her striping any.
 
You said she eats chicken thighs, like cut up meat? The reason I ask is I'm wondering about her calcium intake. I'm a new corn owner, but I have a lot more experience with lizards (particularly chameleons), that have to have calcium supplements (powder you sprinkle on their food if you've never used it). Calcium requirements were one of the first things I researched about snakes. Because they normally eat whole prey with bones, they don't need calcium... But if your girl (or guy) is just eating boneless meat, calcium might be lacking in her diet.



Calcium has a lot of different functions in the body, bone growth and strength, muscle movement and coordination, nerve impulses and regulation of the heart beat to name a few. Lack of calcium can cause symptoms related to any or all of these issues.



If that might be the problem, I'd start adding calcium powder WITHOUT D3 to her chicken (like cut a slot and pour some in). An xray and blood work from the vet would tell you for sure if that is the issue.



Okay, sorry that was long winded but I hope it helps! 😊
 
Bone-in chick thighs. Same thing I feed my hatchling jamaican boas for their first year. Plenty of calcium. Plus, she was born this way, so whatever the cause, it had to start before her feeding regimen. Thanks for clarifying, though.
 
Does anyone have a measurement on the tail length alone for a normal yearling, preferably around the 50 grams and 24-26 total length mark that we have been discussing? I'd like to see how it compares to Stubby's. Thanks.
 
I might be a little late to this discussion, but I'm *pretty sure* Donovan Winterberg had/has a similar stubby looking corn snake. You could try getting ahold of him and see what he has to say about it. It is strange how it looks like stubbs was cut almost in half and the tail glued on!
 
This snake is a female, 49 grams. Her total body length is 30.57 inches (2 ft 6.7 inches) and her tail length is 4.09 inches. I used serpwidgets for measuring, so I think it's pretty accurate. I took a picture of her and of her tail separately and measured them each.

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She is definitely tessera, but do you not think she is also hypo? My normal tessera has a LOT more black on her and she is a similar age. Both of my tesseras have a similar muddling of the pattern where the tail starts. Whatever is different inside of her, I don't think the pattern is unusual.

She's really cute, by the way!
 
ok, thanks for the info, guys. So, it looks as though her tail is proportionate in length to the rest of her body. Her body is roughly 2/3 normal size, and her tail appears to be around 3/4 normal size. So, despite looking "normal" (at least in it's general shape) it is also substantially shorter than that of a normal sized corn.

I suppose she could be hypo, but I was told by the breeder at the time of purchase that she was just a tessera. I would think she is probably het caramel, though, with all that yellow going on.
 
I had one like yours. She died before she was bred, probably at about 60 cm length (2 feet). (It is the snake in my profile pic on the left.)

My short bulky snake had a mother that was very bulky too, but the mother became 130 centimetres long.

There is natural variation in the shape of snakes. Some snakes are thick and others are thin, some are long and some ar short, so your snake do not have to have some kind of dissorder.
 
NiklasTyreso said:
I had one like yours. She died before she was bred, probably at about 60 cm length (2 feet). (It is the snake in my profile pic on the left.)

My short bulky snake had a mother that was very bulky too, but the mother became 130 centimetres long.

There is natural variation in the shape of snakes. Some snakes are thick and others are thin, some are long and some ar short, so your snake do not have to have some kind of dissorder.
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Thanks for the response. Do you have any more pictures or info on weight? I would be very interested to see that.
 
At Reptiles by Mack we have some odd female checkered garters that are stubby just like your corn. They don't seem to have any spinal kinks and they're all thriving. I also agree that it could be some form of dwarfism.
 
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