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I have a few snakes and looking to get a corn. I ran across a Striped Okeetee,but no pic. Does anyone have a pic of one? Or is it pretty much like a regular striped corn? I am definately looking for a striped one.
Thanks
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Ball Python
Jungle Carpet Python
Eastern King
Mexican Black King
Sonoran Gopher
Aberrent Cal King
Anduran Milk
Hypo Brooks

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>>I have a few snakes and looking to get a corn. I ran across a Striped Okeetee,but no pic. Does anyone have a pic of one? Or is it pretty much like a regular striped corn? I am definately looking for a striped one.
>>Thanks
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I would suspect a striped okeetee to look like any other striped normal.
If you can get pictures of the snake, and you feel it is worth the priced asked, then it is worth it.
Without pics i would be hesitant.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
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Jimmy Johnson
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Draybars Snakes

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ive never thought about it before and it could be interesting but the stripe motley gene has a hypo effect on corns. okeetee's are really bright corns with large black borders so the hypo effect would lessen that. but to what degree would have to be seen. i would buy a pair if it were like a normal striped corn but with blackish stripes on it.
adam jeffery
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1.1 puebladurans
1.1 sinacorns
1.1 hypo corns
1.1 crimson corns
1.1 striped ghosts
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 mbk
1.1 albino corns
1.1 childrens python
1.3 ghost corns
2.2 butter(both females motley)
1.0 snow corns
1.0 jurassic milk
1.0 house snake
0.1 anery pueblacorn
0.1 bloodred
0.1 eastern milk (eatin pinks)
0.1 striped albino corn
0.1 albino nelsons
0.1 anery motley
0.1 normal corn het hypo,anery
0.1 hypo tang hondo
0.1 rosy boa

Thanks Jimmy and Adam for the info. I will most likely get it. It is from LLL reptile and I will be going down there this coming week. I am actually looking to see if they have a Hypo striped or a Bloodred Striped.
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Ball Python
Jungle Carpet Python
Eastern King
Mexican Black King
Sonoran Gopher
Aberrent Cal King
Anduran Milk
Hypo Brooks

"To serve man..it's...it's a cookbook!"

I have a yearling pair of striped Okeetees on loan to KJ of KJUNsnakehaven.com . Shoot KJ and email and he may have a picture of them laying around (I never took photos before they went out on loan).

We were all very excited that our Striped Okeetees retained black in their patterns...Usually the striped gene takes most, if not all, the black out... but ours show defined black striping...

Good luck.

Graham

What's the background lineage on those? Okeetees & striped normals?
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More less Mike. I purchased the group last year from someone who had been working on the project for a few years. It started out with an Okeetee bred to a good looking/colored stripe. The offspring from that were hand picked and bred to produce the ones we got... none of us thought the black would really carry over...but it did. I have a few crazy think bordered okeetees adults and some mind blowing ultra thick black bordered okeetees I'm raising up for other projects. These bloodlines will be bred into the striped okeetees (out crossing them once more to really capture some color)... We'll cherry pick a handful of babies to raise up..producing our Striped Okeetees. When we introduce ours to the market, we wanna have mind blowing bold black stripes on a neon orange & red snake... so far we're off to a really good start... just another "fun" project to mess around with.

Graham

>>We were all very excited that our Striped Okeetees retained black in their patterns...Usually the striped gene takes most, if not all, the black out... but ours show defined black striping...

Yeah, Graham's correct. Many cornsnakes have been called striped Okeetee cornsnakes for years because they were red and orange. ...NOT because of the black stripe. It was always believed that the striped (and motley) mutation REMOVES the heavy black striping. We've got the striped Okeetees with heavy black stripes that are almost an entire scale row wide. Not bad at all. A good frined that is LARGE into cornsnakes for a living laughed and said we were wasting our time.....and then tried to buy an extra male from us.....lol. We gave it to him, but that just shows how surprising this line is....and how unsurprising most other lines are.

So, the motto? Check an image. It is possible it is a striped okeetee with black, but it is unlikely to have much black. Only an image can tell, and you get what you pay for.

Like Graham said, we are in the process of improving this line by breeding it to some of the best "Improved Abbott's," or extreme, Okeetees to bring out the black even more while taking the orange/red color combo up a notch. Graham doesn't know it yet, but I'm also going to bring these into a high white reverse Okeetee line to try and get a striped albino corn with wide white lines down the back.

Oh, I'm just babbling. That project will start this year, but it'll be 2-3 more years before we see marked improvements from our projects. Fingers crossed, and isn't selective breeding fun?

KJ
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KJUN Snakehaven

Thanks KJ and everyone.
I am going to see the snake when I head to San Diego today. Not sure if they have the parents. But I will at least get to see it,and alot of others,,,,I have cash ready,,,,lol
Just really want a striped.
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Ball Python
Jungle Carpet Python
Eastern King
Mexican Black King
Sonoran Gopher
Aberrent Cal King
Anduran Milk
Hypo Brooks

"To serve man..it's...it's a cookbook!"