He certainly looks it. But he’s pretty solid. I think young folks would say he’s a unit of a corn snake. 
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He is an absolute unit lol.
Kinda hope this works out, I’d love to have a chunky corn snake one day.
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40g Bantam Caramel Cinder het SK girl (Sombra) and 60g Bantam SK het Caramel Cinder girl (Crunchberry). Sombra just shed. I think Crunchberry is nearing shed phase.
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If you ever choose to breed any of the female bantams, are you more concern with egg binding/laying issues with the shorter abdomen? Also how will you tell when they have reached breeding size when their size is so different than the base corn?
(Not attacking in any way, genuinely curious)
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I definitely AM concerned with those things. But they do everything else just like regular corns, except the growth pattern is different. They seem to be staying smaller.
That leads into your other question. I don’t really know when I can consider a female Bantam to be ready to breed by length and/or weight or body condition. But I’ve observed that female corns have a fairly distinct “puberty shed cycle,” that is around double the length of the preceding ones. Females seem to be capable of breeding the season following this. So that will hopefully happen with them too, and guide my efforts.
Some of the males might be capable of breeding NOW.
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Cool, thank you!
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Castillo. Bantam Miami Honey het Cinder. First Bantam to hit 100g. They may not all reach it. We’ll see. He’s medium expression. I like his proportions best of the Bantams.
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He’s such a pretty honey too.
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Takes after his Mama.
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His coloring is really lovely.
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Thanks.
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I dont really know but just a thought.
Could there be some emoryi in them?
Kind of remind me.
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Doubtful that they have much in the way of emoryi genes, at least not any more than any random corn in the tainted captive gene pool.
Their heritage is probably largely Keys corns.
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Thought I’d add some photos of Vale, who is probably the lowest expression snake from that clutch. She’s doing really well, excellent eater, moves very well, sheds without issue, etc. I took some pictures of her with an unrelated snake who is close in weight (Vale is 41 grams and Rebel is 44).
Heads, Vale on the left and Rebel on the right.
Vale is the regular patterned cinder (probably caramel cinder) and Rebel is the cinder tessera:
And Vale by herself. I love her color.
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They look so great together. I need to do some shots like that with these twos’ sibs.
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What a looker! 
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Super good looking corn just there!
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