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Interesting runt

Snakehead

Snakehead

Bite Me! It's ok
This little guy popped out of one of my Polkeetee lines (Polk county x Okeetee). It resulted from a WC Polk County female that was already gravid and mated to one of the babies from that clutch. There was one male that was different from it's siblings so I bred him back to his mom and this is the only baby who resembles a baby Bloodred. Unfortunately he is a tiny runt. Hopefully he'll survive!

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Sounds like the original mother was WC from Polk County and already gravid. He used one of the males from that clutch to breed back to the WC mother and this little guy resulted out of the F2 clutch. Am I right?
 
I think you're right. Hmmm. Polk County has a number of very odd snakes. That's where that albino whatever it is that Craig has came from!!
 
Following the lineage with no issues. A few questions though, where is Polk County, is that Florida or Tenn. or somewhere else?

Where did your Okeetee come from?

Do you have any pics of the father snake? You said he was "different" from his siblings. What exactly was that difference?

Lastly, how many total eggs were in this clutch and how many hatched successfully?

I am reserving opinion until I have a bit more to go on, rather than guessing something different with each piece of the puzzle provided.


Thanks
dc
 
Wow! That snake is tiny!! I'm really hoping he pulls through alright. I'm wondering if he will end up being a small adult because of this?
 
I have a subadult that was 2 grams at hatching. Can't tell the difference between him & the others his age.
 
If memory serves me right, I believe there was a corn breeder in that area of Florida that had most of his collection escape when his house/facility was severely damaged in a hurricane some years ago. I don't think he was able to recover many of his snakes so it is a good possibility that quite a variety of morphs could show up from wc specimens in that area.
 
Still waiting for some data, but I would suggest breeding mom to a bloodred next year to test her out and then breed dad to a motley type to test him out. Just a hunch, but I bet dad's brood produces more interesting results than mom's.

Either way, it is a very pretty snake

dc
 
WOW he is itty bitty but oh so gorgeous!!!

I have my fingers crossed that he eats and grows for you....can't wait to watch this boy grow up!
 
Thanks for all the responses!

Here is a pair of the Amber-ish type. Both of these are WC, I posted these here before on another thread.
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This is the belly of the male in the picture above this one. He is in the lower right part of the picture directly above this one.
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I have more WC pics and I have even started documanting road kills just cause I'm a nerd I guess, lol. Anyway thanks for the interest everyone! I'll post pics of the little runt as he grows.
 
Thanks (Part one)

wow, I didn't expect this little guy to get so much attention? Thank you all for your comments and questions. I work at night driving a big truck and I put in an average of 11 hours and then I come home check my animals and go to sleep, lol. I will try to answer as many questiona as I can in this one response. First of all many areas in central Florida have very hypo-ish looking snakes from Orlando to Tampa. Many have interesting looking bellies too. The ones here close to my house which is in Lake Wales, Florida tend to have a good bit of color infusion on the belly and tend to look almost Amber in color. This original female that was garvid was very near the Polk/Hillsborrough County line. So it is not Lake Wales Corn, but still a Polk County Corn. She had 4 or 5 eggs that survived and hatched. I sold one to a good friend who teaches high scholl in Miami and keeps the snake in his classroom. I kept the one interesting male and the rest I released back near the site of Mom's capture. The following few years I kept all the Polk County snakes in a community cage with 2 males, so I have a few holdover snakes from the last couple years that are Polk County definitely but I can't say with 100% confidence which was the Father. I do know the mothers of course. Of these unknown Father types I have one female that is a spitting image of the original male which came from the WC gravid female. She was from an egg laid from that same Mom also. I am assuming it was the same pairing as this little runt. I will post pics of all the mentioned snakes. This year I did finally group the snakes into likely pairs and have kept them separate so I will know for certain which are both parents. I didn't really get overly interested in them until I started to see how some of these unknowned Father types began to look as they matured. Some are really something and i have tried to take pictures of them but the red colors don't replicate true to life. I will try to mate Mom with a Bloodred next year I have one in my collection, though he is more orange than red, lol. However I do not have any motley corns. Anyway enough of my babbling, here are some pics.

First the mom. This is a picture just before she laid this years clutch.
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Second is the interestin male that Fathered this years little runt.
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next is the female from 2009 that looks like the male above but can't say for sure if he is the Dad. ( I believe He is)
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Next are some assorted holdbacks that came from the community cage. Which have two possible Dads.
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