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Mystery noodle!
- Thread starter Axent
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I would say based on the pattern and the color of the eyes it's a diffused moonstone. I have a 2 yr old male that looks almost identical. It's a little hard to say for sure though without better pics. It certainly would be easier to identify if your pics were taken in natural light like near a window where the light is coming through our even outside like the two where I have mine on a tree limb. :spinner:
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It's also looking a little thin too so you might want to try getting it every five days for about a month to put a little meat on its bones. It shouldn't have that V shape to it. It should look more like a loaf of bread instead. The reason you can see the food is because of the color of the baby. Darker snakes don't typically have that see through type appearance. That will change though as it grows. Where did you get it from?
Dragonling
Doesn't do "casual"
This was my initial guess.
For those wondering about the size/weight, this little guy escaped on two separate occasions from the pet store.
He is from my work. Little guy came in marked as an albino and managed to escape his tank on 2 separate occasions. Each time he was loose for over a month with only available food likely would have been crickets. Both times he was caught in sticky cricket traps and this time we decided normal customers can't take him due to his history so I took him home.
I took some more pictures this morning trying to get the best neutral natural light. One does have direct sunlight though.
His belly is plain down the whole length. I've attached the best photo he'd give me. Worm isn't a fan of handling yet.
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Dragonling
Doesn't do "casual"
Determined little guy. I imagine that's the only reason he didn't sell in that amount of time. If I found a hatchling like that being sold as a simple amel, especially at a PetSmart (yay employee discount), I wouldn't hesitate.
A "fancy" was supposed to be $69 at my work but he was sold as "albino" for $39 plus my own employee discount. My manager wanted to just adopt him out to me for free but our DM said no...so I just paid for him.
Well, if your Petsmart is anything like ours here, they don't know a whole lot about nothing. It's definitely not an amel and based on the color of those eyes, c considering that I deal primarily with lavender morphs, and having one that looks identical to that one, I'd bet money that it's a diffused moonstone. It's definitely a great find. I always find myself looking at the Petco corn snakes looking for a special baby that is a true treasure. It's like treasure hunting, you know it's a long shot at finding anything valuable but you just have to look to be sure in case you stubble upon that treasure you've been looking for all along. ������
Hey Nancy, I was checking out your website and noticed it hadn't been updated since 2013. Are you still breeding and do you have a Facebook page. I'd be very interested in seeing anything you might have available. Could you direct me to where I could find out what you have available?
Along one road we have a Petsmart, Petco and Pet Supplies Plus. Within a mile or so is a Petland so there are plenty of options here. I work at the PS+ and we don't often stock corns because we know little about them. We keep ball pythons instead because several employees have them as pets and they are popular. Plus it seems we can't contain a corn! XD
Nanci
Alien Lover
No- I suck. I'm still breeding- in a limited manner. After a HUGE season (for me) I bred fewer clutches the next season, which was when the economy really tanked, and no one was buying snakes, and it is ZERO fun to try to sell hatchlings when no one is buying, so the next year I bred even less (I think two clutches) and this year, I just did one.
In that time, this site, which is my pretty much only outlet for sales, since I never got into kingsnakes.com or fauna classifieds, much less Facebook, lost so many users- I have really no idea what the market even is any more. And a couple people started breeding thousands of hatchlings, and it seems like they attract all the attention, and the little niche breeders like myself fall through the cracks.
So- I'm on Facebook, and occasionally advertise odds and ends there, but don't have a dedicated SnickerSnakes Facebook business page, but you can always find me on Cornsnakes on Facebook, if you need me. As well as here.
What I have is- three bloodreds, which are kind of medium quality, big fat two year olds, with multiple possible hets, 2.1, which I would practically give away for the cost of shipping. They are nice, great feeders, just the last hangers-on from a clutch of bloodred tesseras. I just need the room.
I have a TON of male lavas, with a couple 100% hets, one of which is cinder, two year olds, from a project I hope comes through this year, at which point a few females will be available. But the males are ready now, and gorgeous, and good feeders, and not bitey. There are two different looks- one which is all red and orange, and one which has a very light background, with orange/red saddles. I don't know if that is just normal variation, or something inheritable. I chose individuals with the whiter background for my project.
This year I will have lavas, and lava-containing morphs, but I don't know what till the eggs hatch.
I have some really nice yearling Miami and Miami-ish motleys, which were a breeding trial to test for stripe in a pinstripe female, and a person said she would take the whole (6) clutch, but she hasn't, but I'd still like to give her the opportunity to collect them if she's still interested. They are 100% het amel cinder stripe.
I have some really nice "locality" projects ready to go, Miami pinstripes, Miami Tesseras, Extreme Okeetees, Extreme Okeetee tesseras, Milksnake phase Miamis, next year. But again, I don't want to breed a ton of babies and then get stuck with them, and I haven't quite crossed over into wholesaling- I still worry about them and want them to all have good homes, not to go through Petsmart- so- I'll probably breed two of those projects next year. And I might repeat the candy cane tessera project- those babies sold before they even ate!
Thank you for asking
Dragonling
Doesn't do "casual"
I'm still somewhat convinced it's a bit light not to have hypo, but wraiths are practically white. Still, variance in morphs, yadda yadda, anything is possible.
I'm fortunate that all of my fellow pet care staff is pretty knowledgeable, and our expertise is spread fairly evenly within our department as well. We have one person that knows everything and anything about hamsters and other small pets, while another person and I cover reptiles, birds, and cats, and two others are long time aquarists.
I am just a small time breeder myself. I did one clutch last year and had planned on a few more this year but a few fell through so I may have two or three at the most this year. I have a clutch about ready to hatch that is a position of 1.0 ultramel stripe het lavender x lavender motley with no known hets. Those should hatch within the next week or so. I'm hoping she's at the very least het amel and crossing my fingers for het stripe. I'm waiting now to find out if my 0.1 snow het hypo motley is gracious by my opal with no known hets (hoping for anery and maybe there's a stripe/motley het in there as well) then my only other pairing this year will be 0.1 bloodred het lavender stripe ph ghost x diffused moonstone hoping to prove out her ph anery. She made some beautiful plasma stripe last year and I have a female one of those. I'm really looking for anything with het lavender, and I was looking for either lava or het lava so it looks like you may have something I'd be interested in. Do you have a 1.1 pair with lava, either homo or het in them? If so, you can message me on Facebook under my name Terri Bloxom House or I do also have a page called Genetically Morphed Reptiles. If so, please pm me with the details on the lava or anything with lavender in them. I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks for responding. I've heard some wonderful things about you so I'd love to have something you've bred. Btw, I noticed that pic on your website with the plasma stripe and the hypo bloodred stripe (I think it wss) anyway, I absolutely love that pic and if my plasma stripe turns out even close to that one, I'll be tickled to death. It's stunning.
I'm not so sure, like you said, wraiths are practically white and from what I can tell with that one, it looks identical to my diffused moonstone male. He is very light in color as well, as you can see in the pics I posted of mine and he for sure has no hypo in him. I guess it's always possible with the variances in color that corns can have but I'd still bet on the diffused moonstone myself.