Nippy Okeetee

[Neumann]

Here's one about the same age

Kastuvas,

Nice looking corn. I have a 'supposed' Okeetee phase corn that looks more like a 'normal' to me but he's just starting to color up. He's about the same age as your little darling and a bit feisty too, but rarely has he bitten me. When he's grumpy he just head buts me. Here are a couple recent pics. As you can see, at 26.5 inches, he's quite a bit smaller than your fella of the same age. Did your corn always have the yellow infused in his belly checks, or did he start with a more clean belly like our corn? Our corn only started to 'yellow up' in the last couple of months so I'm curious if it spreads to the belly.

Cheers,
Jason

 

[Skye]

Lawrence, all my mean and nasty okeetees come from one particular mean and nasty okeetee mother, who I stupidly bred with a rather high-strung young male okeetee. The combination was a disaster. All my other mother and hatchling okeetees are tame as anything. Of the aggressive ones, I sold out a lot of them, and only have 3 left. One is taming. One bites on occasion, and one bites everytime I see her, and has done consistently for a whole year now. They are beautiful though, so I shall try to take the camera home tonight to get some pics. It is a shame that it was such a poor character combination, as the colours that came from that pairing were fantastic. I sold the best two already though.

Tim - interestingly enough, my two that I describe above - the parents of my horrors are both love-line okeetees.

So-pirate - my two most mellow ever corns are my two normals.

Skye

 

[Kastuvas]

I can't really remember I think as you say it started to get more yellow with age. I have only took over the snake recentley. My girlfriend bought it as a birthday prsesent for me, which I couldn't believe, took a week just to sink in that I've got a snake for a birthday But I am studying at university and my flat mates weren't really keen on having a snake in a house even theretend me if i bring the snake. Yeah some people hate them So she was keeping it till come back for the summer.

I have only realised today that its an okeetee type when i stumbled on this forum when doing some reaserch about the corn snakes

I was thinking that she's quite big. She just shed her skin two days ago and its 33 inches. Hehe ironicaly we called her The Little One because she was tiny when we got her, I bet she will end up 6 feet long We might be feeding her two much :/ she eats two baby mice per sitting twise a week and never had any problems with regurgitation:/ How much does your snake eat? Also she's been sheding about once a month regurlary.

 

[Kastuvas]

Skye,

Its always the most pretty ones that are most nasty ones

 

[Neumann]

Cranwill,
That's a beauty!

Skye,
Looking forward to seeing your Okees. Post soon!

Kastuvas,
We feed this snake 2 fuzzies a week, we just switched our Anery over to small mice and I'm going to try one on this guy at our next feeding. He sheds about every 5 weeks. I think yours and mine loook more like normals than okeetees but you never know unless you can track them back to the Hunt Club. Some normals look nearly as nice as okeetees and some okeetees look very much like normals.

Regarding K.Love Okeetee stock:
They're some of the prettiest corn snakes I've ever seen.

Cheers,
Jason

 

[Albino_Corn]

well, i have two okeetees and and amel, and the amel is significantly nicer, but it is possibly because they are in a different area of the house and i hold them a little bit less often (and they are younger)

So would you say an amel is way nicer than an okeetee because i am about to buy an amel.

 

[surfrkidTS]

o yah, my amel is big, nice, fat, and loves to fall asleep on me I have also heard that amels are good eaters but its hard to really know if thats true cuz its still a corn snake just like all the rest

 

[Missy]

ooh kastuvas, such a gorgeous snake, reminds me of my little 2 yr old. lol.

is she going through blue phrase?

 

[Kastuvas]

Hehe what is a "blue phase" I don't even know for sure if its a "she" I call her she because the word snake naturally refers to she

I have read more about okeetees, and starting to doubt if its a real one, knowing that she was bought in London and they come from hunt club in America. Well i have attached another picture, maybe somebody has an eye on telling the differance

 

[surfrkidTS]

Okeetee is a line of normals with large, black borders surrounding the saddles. Reverse Okeetee is just an amel withlarge white borders

 

[Neumann]

Kastuvas,

The blue eyed phase occurs during ecdysis (when the snake is in shed). Their belly checks will become muted and their eyes will appear to have a blue, hazy appearance. During this time their vision is poor so they often become a little jumpy. If my memory serves me well (sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't ), during a shed it's their thyroid gland that kicks into overdrive and starts producing a chemical or hormone that separates their old skin from their new in preperation for a shed and that's what you are seeing when their eyes are turn blue.

Also, your snake looks a lot more like an Okeetee in the second pic you posted than the first. It's a very nice looking snake.

 

[Skye]

Here is my mean spirited mother okeetee (love line) - Noodle

and here is the father - Speedy (again, Love line) and not mean really - just rather fast and jumpy.

Still working on offspring images.

Skye

 

[Skye]

ok - let's see if this works

Lightning - the very aggressive one:

Anchor - the taming one:

Clover - the tamed one:

Skye

 

[surfrkidTS]

funny, the thickness of their black borders seems to add agressiveness in your collection skye. lightning is meanest and has the most balck, where as clover is tame and has the least black.

 

[LawrenceM]

Aha!

Very interesting indeed! My only snake is a male Love-line Okeetee and that is the reason I asked the question. He is definitely going to be a challenge to tame. When I bought him from Kathy she did give me fair warning that her Okeetee line was a bit more feisty than her other lines. My snake is not quite three months old and he is prone to biting and hissing when I pick him up. Once I get him out of his tank, he is fine, a bit nervous but fine. Today I handled him for a half hour to assure that I am handling him enough to tame him down. I am also going to try putting him in his tank and taking him out repeatedly over a few minutes to hopefully get him used to it. He is also quite the looker and eater. Those were great pictures of Skye's Okeetees - They look very much like my snake - not a coincidence now that we know they are close relatives!