The Corn Snakes

Mouser is an Okeetee corn snake about twelve years old. She was the first snake.

Slytherin is an Anery corn snake. We got him three years after Mouser.

Tavi is the offspring of Mouser and Slytherin. He's dominantly Okeetee.

Ghost is a ghost anery corn snake. Old picture. She's all grown up now.

Butters is the hatchling butter corn snake. Can't find a picture of her at the moment.

Toast is the yearling butter corn snake. She was a gift from Amanda

Sunkist is a motley bloodred corn snake.

I've had two oddball corn snakes. Both hatched out deformed. Pretzel was the original deformity. She was an okeetee hatchling out of Slytherin and Mouser. She had several bends in her spine to the point where she honestly looked like a pretzel. Her scales sealed her in that shape. Exotic Pets told me the most humane thing to do would be euthanize her. But I couldn't. She had an incredible personality. So I force fed her. She could eat the mouse, have it pass through her digestive tract, and then poop. After eight months of forcefeeding, she did decide to eat on her own. She survived an entire year.

SideFlopper is the current deformity. He is an anery hatchling out of Slytherin and Ghost. He hatched out with several kinks in his spine as well but the ventral side of his kinks had no scales, just pink stringy muscle. An even more unelikely survivor. The open flesh was a possible point for infection if the kinks didn't keep him from eating. I was surprised when he pooped the yolk out with no issues. So I helped him shed his first time and forcefed. A little early. I probably could have waited to see if he would eat on his own. But in all honesty, I didn't want to waste time on trying to get him to eat if he would never be able to digest the food. Yet he did. And he's growing nicely with the forcefeeding. he has shed three times and each time he's shed, the exposed pink tissue has been covered by scales. He no longer has any pink showing. The scales are very scattered and irregular there but they cover and protect his tender flesh. Crossing my fingers that he will eat on his own.