Okeetee and Tessera Corn Snake?

[cornsnakefan101]

Has anyone ever bred a "Classic" corn snake and a Tessera corn snake before? If it has been done, do you have a picture? I can't seem to find it online.

 

[Shiari]

The offspring... look like normal normals and normal tesseras. It's been done plenty of times.

 

[cornsnakefan101]

Oh, there is no combination of the patterns?

 

[Shiari]

No, because Tessera is a dominant pattern mutation. The animal either displays the trait by having the gene, or it doesn't display the trait because it doesn't have the gene.

 

[Nanci]

This is Koolio, son of Gartersnake (SMR Extreme Okeetee Tessera) x Madras (Aberrant Abbott Okeetee). That is after his first shed.

The last picture is his clutchmate, who is going out to Tara in Washington. Pictured after his second shed.

There's another sibling in Chattanooga, and one in Tampa, and I have a sister who is a holdback- because I planned on a female keeper, and she was my first Tessera hatchling, and she looks just like Daddy, with her perfect stripe, but I _might_ sell her because I had too many keepers and didn't plan on a male keeper but Koolio was irresistible, so...

 

[cornsnakefan101]

Hmm.. That would be cool to have a tessera and different pattern mix though.

 

[cornsnakefan101]

This is Koolio, son of Gartersnake (SMR Extreme Okeetee Tessera) x Madras (Aberrant Abbott Okeetee). That is after his first shed.

The last picture is his clutchmate, who is going out to Tara in Washington. Pictured after his second shed.

There's another sibling in Chattanooga, and one in Tampa, and I have a sister who is a holdback- because I planned on a female keeper, and she was my first Tessera hatchling, and she looks just like Daddy, with her perfect stripe, but I _might_ sell her because I had too many keepers and didn't plan on a male keeper but Koolio was irresistible, so...

Wow, that looks amazing! How did you breed them?

 

[Nanci]

Wow, that looks amazing! How did you breed them?

I traded a pied ball python for the hatchling Gartersnake, from Don Soderberg. When he was three years old, I arranged a marriage for him. Madras arrived in August, 2012. She was placed in isolation for five months.

After Madras' first shed of the new year, I put them together every Sunday, in a plain plastic 66 quart bin, and left them together for an hour. After several Sundays, Madras said yes. I then put them together every three days until Madras said no twice in a row.

Then I made a lay box for her. After a month or so, she went blue, shed, and laid her clutch about 12 days later. I removed the eggs and placed them in an incubator, in their egg box. After about 68 days, the eggs hatched.

 

[mikem]

I picked up an awesome looking okeetee tessera from Lynnea at the Columbia Repticon this past weekend. I'll post some photos when she sheds

 

[chris68]

Nanci, I' think you posted them, but do you have any pics of the non-tessera kids from that pair?

 

[HerpsOfNM]

This link is for a tessera het butter stripe x reverse okeetee. Both breeders are from Don Soderberg at SMR.
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130500

This link is of the same tessera male above x to a wild caught okeetee (I personally caught her 13 years ago).
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130683&page=2

Recent pics of the tessera x ro offspring can be seen in my classified ad. I might be able to get photos of the tessera x wc okeetee offspring later tonight.

 

[Nanci]

Nanci, I' think you posted them, but do you have any pics of the non-tessera kids from that pair?

I don't have any pics beyond the first shed, and they've really started to color up! I need to get some...

 

[DragonsDenSerpents]

I have one of the non-tessera siblings. Belhaven just shed, I'll grab a photo of him after he digests.

As far as Okeetee phase x tessera offspring, my Stella is one.