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At the last show i attended there was a plethora of corn morphs. Im no breeder and i dont stay up on trends and current morphs. That being said. Every one of these hatchling morphs were pretty gorgeous. Beings how hatchling snakes change so drastically into adulthood. Which Morphs do you think grow to be the most beautiful adults. For fun which morphs do you think grow to be duller and boring (i refrain from using 'ugly' LOL).

Vomitmels. The majority of amels are simply not particularly stunning animals. Sunglows are amazing, candycanes are gorgeous, and a good, vibrant RO is always a pleasure.

But the majority of 'everyday' amels end up this dull pale orange with white flecking and it's just... blech.

Beauty is definitely in the eyes of the beholder. There are so many color and pattern combinations to choose from now you need a menu to order! Check out this site that shows most all morphs and morph combos to date. It shows hatchling and adult pictures if available. Some are so new there are no adults to photograph yet. I hope there is not a problem putting this link here. It is only a site for information. http://www.iansvivarium.com/cornsnakemorphs/php

>>At the last show i attended there was a plethora of corn morphs. Im no breeder and i dont stay up on trends and current morphs. That being said. Every one of these hatchling morphs were pretty gorgeous. Beings how hatchling snakes change so drastically into adulthood. Which Morphs do you think grow to be the most beautiful adults. For fun which morphs do you think grow to be duller and boring (i refrain from using 'ugly' LOL).

it is so hard to pick a favorite and a least favorite....my likes and dislikes change regularily.
But...it's hard to put anything above a nice bright okeetee...which isn't actually a morph anyway.
my least favorite or what I consider to be least attractive....hmmmm
don't know...I like 'em all...some nice ones and some not so nice ones of a lot of morphs but I can't really think of any I don't like.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes...No one can have just one.
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Thanks for the website. ive been looking for something like that. i agree its hard to beat okeetees. My amel is very dull and boring. thank god she is friendly and a great snake!

Everybody has their own preferences!

My personal favorites are extreme Okeetees, good bright reverse Okeetees (the fluorescent version), and coral snows. All three are wonderful in my eyes!
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1.2 Peruvian rainbow boas (Amaru, Asiru, Kulipsa)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (Arco, Olho)
1.3.1 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Chakar, Hari, Saksak)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (Coatl)
0.0.1 Mexican black kingsnake (Mora)
2.4.4 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, Uce, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

This has become one of my favorites. It's a salmon snow. I picked up a pair from JMG Reptiles in Daytona this year.

Wow! that is "killer" now just imagine how it will look as an adult! Jeff

If it could exist, a solid black corn would be awesome.

I don't get to see very many morphs here on the West coast.

I did see a large adult blizzard corn, and that was simply stunning. Oh, and a striped butter and striped creamsicle - both amazing IMO.
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Mark

I think any all-black or all-white snake is pretty cool and a black corn would be pretty awesome.
I found some all-black Eastern Garter Snakes a couple of weeks ago.
Here's one of them:

OMG!!!, that's a freakin BLACK MAMBA Tim!!

HAHAA!! Remember the ridiculous news stories and articles a while back posted on the ratsnake forum, where certain folks of the town thought that a very typical black ratsnake they found and killed was actually an escaped "Black Mamba"?..LOL!.

Anyway, WOW!, Those solid black Garter's are pretty darn cool looking man!. Rarely do I ever see or hear of the melanistic forms being found, or even kept and produced for that matter, even though I definitely know they exist in certain spots here and there.

I captured a nice melanistic Eastern Hognose in Ft. Pierce, Florida on the east coast as I was getting off of I-95 onto the off-ramp section. Luckily there was no traffic directly behind me so I could immediately come to a dead stop in the middle of the road to snag it..LOL!

Great find man!. Have you ever captured other melanistic Garter's in your Ohio area before?

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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Doug,

A melanistic E. Hognose is on my list of things to find. So far I've just found patterned ones. Melanistic Garters do not live in my part of Ohio - I had to travel to the western part of the state where they live along the Lake Erie shore as well as on some of the islands.

Tim

Lake Erie Water Snake (from same area):

ah, okay, thanks for the info on those guys. Hope you score a melanistic Eastern one of these days. I considered myself extremely fortunate that day several years ago to have found one, even though they are known to exist here and there.

I wish I took pics of the thing while I had it, but the toads were pretty scarce where I actually lived during that time, so I let it go exactly where I found it when I made the same trip a few weeks afterwards. I did manage to feed him once or twice before release, so that was good anyway.

To keep it on topic I have found a few corns and yellow rats in the same area, and even two Pine Woods Snakes as well.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

There are lots of black hogs here in the hampton roads area of vb, where suitable habitat can still be found.

You would think it would be common sense to compare an animal to NATIVE species as opposed to some huge venomous african species like a black mamba in an effort to properly identify it. Common sense is not very common though. My favorite article was the deadly anaconda. There was not an accurate piece of information in that report! Also it was hilarious that they had an actual photo of a green anaconda in the background! Noone noticed that the bullsnake resembled the anaconda in no way shape or form? That is complete irresponsible journalism but guess what? when i mentioned it to a friend who hates snakes, his comment was 'yeah but who cares...noone likes snakes and it makes a good story'.

"when i mentioned it to a friend who hates snakes, his comment was 'yeah but who cares...noone likes snakes and it makes a good story"

Exactly!, that is the ONLY reason news programs exist today. They do NOT give two craps about being accurate with their stories, they simply want to put their much more "fascinating" spin on things too get people's attention and to "milk" and fabricate whatever they can about any story for whatever it could POSSIBLY be worth. This as you know is ESPECIALLY true for any thing involving snakes!. Same with any shows for that matter.

And the "common sense not being so common" could not be MORE accurate either.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

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