First hatchling of 2012.... and it's a SWEET one!

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My first baby snake of 2012 has hatched! This one is a corn snake. I'm still waiting for my my ball python girls to lay. Anyway, this baby is from an amel motley 66% possible het cinder female bred to a peppermint het motley male. I'm pretty sure this baby is a PEPPERMINT MOTLEY, which are still extremely rare. I will be able to to tell for sure after he sheds and when I have some siblings hatching to compare him to. Anyway, I'm pretty excited! :D

I'm not into corns, but that is a very nice baby.

Congratulations.

Gale

Wow! that is a beauty....looks like a beautifully made piece of candy. Congrats!

O...M...GEEEEE I WANT! That is a GORGEOUS CORN!!!

Very pretty colors! Congrats

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I'm not into corns, but that is a very nice baby.

Congratulations.

Gale

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Thats a corn i would buy lol

One cool little baby, congrats!

Wow, really cool pattern and color!

Very cool, corns are awesome animals.

Thank you for the nice comments! For those of you not very familiar with corns, peppermint is double morph combination of the amel (albino) gene with the fairly new cinder (anery C) gene. They are one of the few types of snakes out there that are pink, which is a very popular color among corn keepers. Personally I like peppermints a lot better than the high pink snow corns that you see more commonly, because the peppermints are a brighter pink and don't develop any yellow pigments long their sides with age. Motley is the pattern morph which gives mine the dots down his back, so a peppermint motley is a triple recessive morph, and to my knowlege only two others have ever been produced. There are six more eggs in this clutch, and they all look good but are taking their sweet time to start pipping. I can't wait to see what else hatches out!

You've just introduced me to the corn snake morph I am going to buy someday! :D

Wow, that is quite the accomplishment for you!

That would be like me creating an Axanthic Ghost Pied ball python. The odds on that are really long, especially if I was dealing with hets and not all visuals.

I am extremely impressed, and I'm not real familiar with corns.

Gale

Your welcome, it sure is beautiful the only corn I own right now is Okeetee (the one in my display pic to the left) He is damn sweet too. But im loving this one! How much of a price would you put on it? (not looking to buy since I am in canada) but just wondering like everyone else :P

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Your welcome, it sure is beautiful the only corn I own right now is Okeetee (the one in my display pic to the left) He is damn sweet too. But im loving this one! How much of a price would you put on it? (not looking to buy since I am in canada) but just wondering like everyone else :P

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Well, I'm probably going to keep this one, but it's kind of hard to say how I would price one of these guys if I decided to sell. I have heard the going rate on regular peppermints to be from $225 to $500. A peppermint motley is a triple recessive morph and is much more rare, so I imagine you could probably ask $700 or so for one. I don't think triple morph corns will ever fetch quite as much money as triple morphs ball pythons, despite all the cool colors they come in. They are do have much bigger clutches and are quite easy to breed, which increases the supply and brings down the demand on them.

Congrats very pretty snake

Very nice

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This morph is new to me. Very cool :)

You'll have to post another picture after he (it?) sheds.

So, the hatchling that I first posted on this thread actually turned out to be a regular albino motley het for cinder. That became apparent once the siblings hatched and everybody shed. The good news is that I did produce peppermint motleys...... FIVE of them! All males. As it turns out, their father is probably actually a peppermint motley himself (the first one ever hatched), and we just didn't realize it with his aberrant pattern until all of his kids came out looking like motleys and we realized that he never actually developed the pale green belly checkers and highlights that should have shown up by adulthood on a regular patterned peppermint. I'm just waiting for his clutch with another female that doesn't carry the cinder gene to hatch and show all motley babies in order to be completely sure of his homo motley status. Here are pictures of what the peppermint motley babies look like currently and one of their father. I expect the babies to get pinker with maturity, as their father did. Anyway, I'm very pleased with the clutch and that five out of seven babies turned out to be peppermints...... and probably motley peppermints!

PEPPERMINT MOTLEY HATCHLING (one of five hatchling males)
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ADULT PEPPERMINT (PROBABLY) MOTLEY
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Oh wow, that's a beautiful corn!! The adult is sweet looking, too... that white head with the pink eyes, what a combination. :gj:

Pretty wild looking there, COngratz!, hope it proves out for you!

I actually like this one better

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than this one.

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both are gorgeous though. and congrats!!!!!

Thank you! Yeah, I like the second one better too. The first one is more orange than pink now that it has shed, and the pink ones look like they are pinking up even more. They all have nicer patterns than their father, and hopefully they will be as bright pink as he is when they are mature. I will definitely be keeping one. I was kind of bummed that all five of the peppermint motleys are males, but it the end it's probably good, because it ensures I won't keep too many of them myself..... just my favorite one.