Shame our BTS don't quite have that same 'designer' appeal - then I guess people in Guam still wouldn't be happy with them!
Awesome pics. I came across some corn snakes at our local zoo up here in Cairns and I loved their piano styled under-belly. I must admit I prefer pythons over colubrids, but if corn snakes were legal here I'd probably consider one. For the time I will stick with my slightly less coloured, but never-the-less beautiful pythons.
Thanks beautiful snakes and explained the way even i could understand. They are not the alley cats of the snake world more like the budgie with its amazing colours and combination of genitics.
when i first applied for my licence my first question was '' can you keep corn snakes in Australia'' still are my favorite exotic .
Barry
wow thats alot of colour, i love it! thanks for the pictures
i also wanted a corn when i first got my licence (before i knew they were illegal in Aus)
but i still prefer my coastal darling
it would be soo strange if those colours came in coastals !! Wooooow that would be strange
did anyone see the mythbusters episode when adam and jamie got told to put their hands in a bag and they pulled out handfuls of baby cornsnakes?? that was epic!
Thanks everyone! Nope theyre not rear fanged, theyre about as harmless as any snake can get.
The only colors they really dont have is green, you can find some with lime green hints in the pattern but its very random. Blue is being worked on even. Whats really fun with them is the ability to hatch out 8 or more different colors or patterns in a single clutch.
Generallly the morph names come up with whoever found or made the morph first, but in reality its up to the hobby whether it catches or not, whether people like it or rename it something else. The genetics part is easy, its memorising all these trade names that drives someone crazy.