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

[purplemuffin]

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

[angllady2]

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

[Quantum Constrictors]

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

[wendhend]

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

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.

[KrazyKevin]

Congrats very pretty snake

[Rorschach]

Very nice

[pythown]

This morph is new to me. Very cool

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

[wendhend]

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)


ADULT PEPPERMINT (PROBABLY) MOTLEY

[Lolo76]

Oh wow, that's a beautiful corn!! The adult is sweet looking, too... that white head with the pink eyes, what a combination.

[jcoylesr76]

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