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    Awesome first corn snake!!

    Long story short this weekend was my birthday and in a completely unrelated event I ended up with a malnourished corn snake. I've been researching daily trying to find out what angle I wanted to take with corn snakes as I'm building a collection of reptiles. It turns out that I got very lucky. The snake has already ate for me and I have a feeling that it will turn out to be healthy. It's a Snow Tessera which happens to be an awesome looking little pink snake. I paid 45 dollars for it but the one on BHB's website that looks identical is listed at 200 dollars so I feel like I got an awesome deal. Here is the link to BHB's snow tessera http://bhb-reptiles.myshopify.com/co...sera-cornsnake the only difference is that mine isn't perfect, the dorsal stripe isn't as thick and the white coloring is still pretty faint. My guess is BHB or another big company is the one who supplies that pet store and they toss out their high end colubrids that don't fit into perfect standards and sell them to the big pet chains as "fancy" corn snakes or "fancy" leopard geckos(although this usually just entails murphys patternless, SHTCT, and Tremper albinos). I really like the tessera corns so I think that I might just start out with a handful of tesseras for the first few years to focus on. I'll try to post pictures soon.

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    Congrats! Its always nice to get a good deal,especially on something you would buy anyway. I hope it does well for you.
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    Are you sure it isn't a snow stripe rather than a snow tessera?

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    I started a thread on the cornsnake.com forum for some other opinions too. A stripe doesn't have side patterning and it was more of his/her aztec looking pattern on the side that had me puzzled, the stripe was second. I could see how some one would make an assumption without knowing that about stripes but I've spent a lot of time studying corn snakes lately. After talking to a breeder and looking through pictures hours on end for several days I've concluded that he is indeed a Tessera. It was not a decision that I made without effort though. I thought that he looked like one at first but wanted to know for sure, the only way I will be more certain is after seeing his/her offspring. His quality isn't the best as the patterning (mostly just the stripe being faint) isn't the sharpest but it's still there. I'm pretty excited as it's a dominant gene so in theory I could have 50 percent Tessera babies when I breed him. He's my first corn snake and I am definitely a huge corn snake fan now. He'll wrap around my hand and in between my fingers and just sit there. Either way I like him and am glad I got him.

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    Cute, reminds me of an earthworm. Do they keep that pink coloring or do they whiten out as they age?

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    A basic Snow (color morph) corn snake will whiten out and lose the pink coloration unfortunately. There are some like the Coral Snow that will stay pink depending on whats all in their genes. They are very cute though being small and pink little buggers.

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