‘23 Holdbacks and The Rest of The Collection

caryl · April 29, 2025, 2:10am

She’s very pretty, too!! I love how messy Sunkissed Tesseras can be.

caron · April 29, 2025, 10:41pm

All are lovely Dean! My favorites are Peppermint and Manzanita!

deanaii · April 30, 2025, 1:04pm

Thanks Caron!

snakes_of_shadowlake · May 3, 2025, 7:31am

I know I’m playing catch up here, but I am just floored by your amazing collection. I’m getting googly eyes all over again.

Is this still the case? Man, that shatter stripe look is amazing! I may have to make a spot for a little one in a couple years if not this year.

And is that a bit of halo that York is carrying, too? Or is it something else (photo lighting?) making him look like he has extra green/yellow highlights? He is striking.

deanaii · May 3, 2025, 4:56pm

I agree about York. I suspect Halo too.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any Shatter Stripes left, BUT I do have this awesome Sunkissed Stripe het Cinder/Shatter. He’ll look even better than his fantastic older sister, I predict.

snakes_of_shadowlake · May 3, 2025, 5:45pm

So pretty! I am male heavy. Will you have a female this year?

caron · May 3, 2025, 5:47pm

Dean has some wonderful corns!!!

snakes_of_shadowlake · May 3, 2025, 5:50pm

No kidding! I’m changing all my plans for babies to buy this year because they’re taking my breath away!

deanaii · May 3, 2025, 5:50pm

It’s hard to say. I’m pretty much only proving out that new Bantam mutation this year, but ONE of those clutches has a good chance of producing some non-Bantam (and Bantam) SK Stripes and maybe Shatter Stripes.

snakes_of_shadowlake · May 3, 2025, 5:59pm

I’ll be watching closely

deanaii · May 3, 2025, 6:27pm

Sounds good. And I’ll remember. That whole group does everything late, so there won’t even be eggs for another month.

deanaii · May 3, 2025, 7:19pm

I sent you a message somewhere on this unnavigable site. Lol. If you can’t find it, let me know.

snakes_of_shadowlake · May 3, 2025, 8:02pm

Got it. Responded.

deanaii · May 11, 2025, 9:31pm

‘20 Kathy Love line Okeetee. Radha.

caryl · May 12, 2025, 10:01pm

There are so many beautiful corn snakes, so many astonishing patterns and colors. I love so many of them, and it seems like I see something new and wonderful every year. So many uniquely special shades and tones of wonder. But you know what? There’s still nothing better that a top quality Oketee like that one.

deanaii · May 12, 2025, 10:36pm

I feel the same, which is why when I got back into the hobby, she was first. And as a Kathy Love fanatic, I really wanted one from her lines.

caron · May 12, 2025, 11:05pm

That’s the way I feel about normal/wild type ball pythons There truly are so many colorful morphs these days but just like the Okeetee corns, the wild types/normals are like artwork on a scaly canvas, each one a masterpiece that can’t be duplicated.