Tessera Club!! Post Yours Too!!

[airenlow]

Meh...I still prefer Ts with a perfect stripe. :shrugs:

 

[diamondlil]

Meh...I still prefer Ts with a perfect stripe. :shrugs:

Me too, as it's their USP to have the wide stripes and the borders, they just don't look right without them.

 

[Tara80]

Meh...I still prefer Ts with a perfect stripe. :shrugs:

I also concur. To me, the tessera is represented by that stripe; the more perfect the stripe the better the tessera.
We don't "show" our snakes like we do other animals but (just like my son showing his poultry this week at the country fair) there are "requirements" of certain morphs/breeds/etc and if I could put a value or "requirement" on tesseras then it would be based on the quality of the stripe; if that makes any sense. (my personal feelings, obviously)

 

[multicorn]

Two new additions as of yesterday will get better pics once they've settled in!

Female extreme okeetee tessera

Male tessera het anery motley

Fail...this is the het anery motley!!

Amazing Amanda..... Cant wait to see them growing theyll change soooo much

one of mine shed last night!!!!!

 

[manda88]

I'm doing a progession thread for the okeetee over on Ian's Viv, she's gonna be awesome Walter's colours are gonna be amazing too, the fact he's so orange already, loooove them!

 

[SnakeAround]

My lovely keeper girl Khaleesi!

This was my keeper first because she is purrfect but than the thicker borders and the orange on the girl above convinced me to switch:

 

[slangenbroed]

Buf x Tessera

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1487556#post1487556
Maybe somthing for the tessera club

Greetings

Jan

 

[slangenbroed]

sorry this is easyer

Interesting i think

 

[ecreipeoj]

Tessera het Sunkisssed Okeetee 50% ph SG

Meh...I still prefer Ts with a perfect stripe. :shrugs:

I can’t say that I don’t love the perfect striped ones too. I have a few myself and I will be breeding them to Okeetees to make sure their striping stays perfect. I think even the Okeetee colors can be produced in Reverse Aztec, like this beautiful girl. Perhaps just like good Stripes can be made better by breeding them to Okeetee lines, Tesseras can be bred true to the original type by breeding them to Okeetee lines. You could say that the original 2.1 Tesseras were Okeetee Tesseras.

I also concur. To me, the tessera is represented by that stripe; the more perfect the stripe the better the tessera.
We don't "show" our snakes like we do other animals but (just like my son showing his poultry this week at the country fair) there are "requirements" of certain morphs/breeds/etc and if I could put a value or "requirement" on tesseras then it would be based on the quality of the stripe; if that makes any sense. (my personal feelings, obviously)

I disagree with this completely. Just because the first Tessera phenotype was described with perfect patterns, doesn’t mean it was it was an accurate description of the gene. They described what they had, Okeetee Tesseras.

My Tessera was produced in F1 from an Okeetee Tess x Silverqueen. These CRAZY patterned Reverse Aztec Okeetee are being produced in F2. Tesseras genetically are by far the most interesting cutting edge morph we have right now. Since the gene is dominant, it doubles what we see each generation. You could say that I am in the equivalent of recessive F4 generations already with Tesseras, in only two years.

I think Tessera is a wonderful genetic window into the genes we already have in our Corns. It doubles the focus on some genes that we just couldn’t quite figure out before. Do you really think Motley patterns are so different just because they “vary”. We have a Motley pattern similar to the original Tessera pattern, and we have a lot of other very cool Motley patterns. It is pretty obvious Tessera is going to be the same way, except the patterns are even CRAZIER and perfect.

The breeding that produced this girl was Tessera het Ghost x Kathy Love Sunkissed het SG. Yes, I am even testing my Tessera for SG. Especially since he is from a Silverqueen and Sunkissed Silverqueens exist. I have too much invested in my Tessera to let SG slip in this way.

This test clutch produced 19 hatchlings with NO SG present. I am going to adopt this Tessera het Sunkissed ph SG and breed her to a homo SG when she is grown to prove her out. All offspring from SG test are culled, with the few exceptions that are raised up to be tested out.

You may like perfect striped Tesseras as I do, but I happen to love these Reverse Aztez Tesseras too. This one looks like it is going to have Okeetee coloration with an extremely cool Aztec Pattern. I have always really liked aztec patterns on Corns, but none were ever quite good enough. These are good enough!

 

[ecreipeoj]

Buf RA Tessera het Caramel ph Lava

Interesting i think

This Tessera in the comparison photos with an Anery RA Tess could be a Buf Tessera. He is definately het for Dominant Yellow (AKA "Yellow Disease") which could be the same as Buf.

By the way, Yellow Disease was a joke. It is only a disease if you are trying to produce RED Corns. It is GREAT for producing yellow Corns or buff colored Normal Tess.

Yes, I love perfect stripes too, like the Striped Hypo Cinder and Striped Ice in this comparison photo, but I also like these "3D" Pattern Tesseras like this 3D Tessera het Diffused. Their patterns flow all over the place.

 

[Lyion]

I really am wanting someone to produce a peppermint tessera ♥♥♥

 

[multicorn]

I can’t say that I don’t love the perfect striped ones too. I have a few myself and I will be breeding them to Okeetees to make sure their striping stays perfect. I think even the Okeetee colors can be produced in Reverse Aztec, like this beautiful girl. Perhaps just like good Stripes can be made better by breeding them to Okeetee lines, Tesseras can be bred true to the original type by breeding them to Okeetee lines. You could say that the original 2.1 Tesseras were Okeetee Tesseras.


I disagree with this completely. Just because the first Tessera phenotype was described with perfect patterns, doesn’t mean it was it was an accurate description of the gene. They described what they had, Okeetee Tesseras.

My Tessera was produced in F1 from an Okeetee Tess x Silverqueen. These CRAZY patterned Reverse Aztec Okeetee are being produced in F2. Tesseras genetically are by far the most interesting cutting edge morph we have right now. Since the gene is dominant, it doubles what we see each generation. You could say that I am in the equivalent of recessive F4 generations already with Tesseras, in only two years.

I think Tessera is a wonderful genetic window into the genes we already have in our Corns. It doubles the focus on some genes that we just couldn’t quite figure out before. Do you really think Motley patterns are so different just because they “vary”. We have a Motley pattern similar to the original Tessera pattern, and we have a lot of other very cool Motley patterns. It is pretty obvious Tessera is going to be the same way, except the patterns are even CRAZIER and perfect.

The breeding that produced this girl was Tessera het Ghost x Kathy Love Sunkissed het SG. Yes, I am even testing my Tessera for SG. Especially since he is from a Silverqueen and Sunkissed Silverqueens exist. I have too much invested in my Tessera to let SG slip in this way.

This test clutch produced 19 hatchlings with NO SG present. I am going to adopt this Tessera het Sunkissed ph SG and breed her to a homo SG when she is grown to prove her out. All offspring from SG test are culled, with the few exceptions that are raised up to be tested out.

You may like perfect striped Tesseras as I do, but I happen to love these Reverse Aztez Tesseras too. This one looks like it is going to have Okeetee coloration with an extremely cool Aztec Pattern. I have always really liked aztec patterns on Corns, but none were ever quite good enough. These are good enough!

Hello all.
I agree with Joe The tessera mutation is amazing in the perfect stripe form. I have a few perfect striped ones that i am keeper.. Head to tip of the tail perfect.!! like this male..

But i also like the not perfect striped they have alot more character...
If every person that has a tessera had one that was head to tail perfect tessera would get very boring. They'd all look the same..!!

This one below isn't as great 'crazy' as Joe's but i really love her crazyness she has character... She is from our Extreme okeetee line (SMR originally)
but worked on by us. She is going to be very Extreme when she ages....!!!

I think that her patternation is like this maybe due to some of her clutch mates being partial Zig-Zag.. "Shrug shoulders"
Joe: Did your clutch siblings have bizarre/zig-zag patterns also???

 

[Nanci]

And now for an almost perfect stripe! SSSSHHHH!!!!! This snake is a super-secret birthday present. DO NOT TELL RICH!!! It's been driving me crazy not taking pictures of Mercury- so I'm trying to sneak him in here!!

 

[SnakeAround]

Charcoal Tessera?

 

[ecreipeoj]

But i also like the not perfect striped they have alot more character...
If every person that has a tessera had one that was head to tail perfect tessera would get very boring. They'd all look the same..!!

This one below isn't as great 'crazy' as Joe's but i really love her crazyness she has character... She is from our Extreme okeetee line (SMR originally)
but worked on by us. She is going to be very Extreme when she ages....!!!

I think that her patternation is like this maybe due to some of her clutch mates being partial Zig-Zag.. "Shrug shoulders"
Joe: Did your clutch siblings have bizarre/zig-zag patterns also???

I didn't want to say it myself first, but Striped Tesseras and Tesseras with a striped pattern, will start to all look a like eventually, like many Striped Corn lines do now.

I have been breeding Corns for 30 years now and I don't see many Corns that get me excited. This morning, I hatched out my first Striped Lava. Yeah for me!, but I already knew what they were going to look like. When I first saw your Crazy Patterned Tessera, I felt the WOW Factor. I am sorry, but I just don't feel it with your perfect striped Tess, because like you said so beautifully, I have seen many simular ones before, but WOW none like your Crazy Tess.

Here is an updated photo of two of my future breeding Tess. One is a RC RA Tess het Striped Lavender ph Ghost and the other is a Tess het Sunkissed Bloodred. I am the first to point out possibilities that defunct my hypothesis. Since This nicely striped Tess is het Diffused and has a nice pattern, why am I getting Crazy Patterns when I breed my Tess to Bloodred lines? Perhaps this Tess is only het for Diffused and not homo or het for Masque, Border-less or Banded.

I have hatched out well over 10 clutches from my Tessera and I haven't noticed a single Non-Tess sibling with any Aztec markings at all. For example, the Tess het Ghost x Sunkissed het SG clutch has 15 Non-Tess in the clutch and they all seem to have a perfect blotched pattern, with no Aztecing. This is why, I am hypothesizing, that perhaps genes like, Masque, Border-less and Banded are the cause. I have produced several of these Non-Tess phenotypes. Some of these combos are so close to Diffused, they could be confused for one, but have a single ridge of scales down the edge of the belly area. They have banding pretty much all the way across and perfect Masque head markings. Everything many nice Bloodreds have, without being homo Diffused. They are het Diffused however.

 

[Tom Tuttle]

This is my favorite striped one that I produced this season. More of a rosy boa look! I really can't wait to see the Striped Tesserra Peppermints the hatchlings from this clutch produce.

 

[zorro]

Joe those ghost tesseras you posted are out of this world, I love the colors and pattern. I have seen that not all het bloods have a broken pattern as in the tessera that Nanci just posted. I know his origin and he is 100% het blood but still keeps that classic tessera pattern. I really love them both ways!!!!!!!


Very nice birthday present (tessera), your secret is safe with us.:nope:
John

And now for an almost perfect stripe! SSSSHHHH!!!!! This snake is a super-secret birthday present. DO NOT TELL RICH!!! It's been driving me crazy not taking pictures of Mercury- so I'm trying to sneak him in here!!

 

[Tom Tuttle]

Imho these have a nice classic Tessera pattern.

Tessera / het stripe lava

Extreme Okeettee Tessera

 

[iculatr]

Imho these have a nice classic Tessera pattern.

Tessera/ het Peppermint stripe

Tessera / het stripe lava

Those are some pretty cool tessera projects you've got there!

 

[Tom Tuttle]

Those are some pretty cool tessera projects you've got there!

Thanks Troy & Jarrett! I can't wait see what 2013 brings!