In our colony, the addition of new cornsnakes are kept to a minimum due to the flood of creamsicles and other hybrids in the cornsnake market.  We've got many that have been line-bred with an eye on maximizing our use of genetic diversity via "a good breeding plan," maximizing generation span, and just doing everything we possibly can to minimize inbreeding below that which is commonly done by many other breeders.  Obviously, some of our newer morphs have to have been recent purchases, and we've had to outcross our "core" group to some of the newer animals.  We still do everything we can to be assured that we are only getting pure corns in our colony - if such a thing is completely possible in today's cornsnake market (especially following the debate over the origin of ultramel cornsnakes)!  This leaves us being able to offer line-bred cornsnakes from prior to the "hybrid explosion" - although hybrids were still circulating out there for years prior to our getting into this hobby - in addition to many of the newer morphs.  All in all, we are very happy with the group of cornsnakes that we've managed to accumulate over the past decade.

Make sure to check out our care sheet for cornsnakes. 

This page has a lot of different morphs listed on it. The best way to find something is to search for a key word.  Hit "Control-F" on your key board to bring up the "Find" function in many of the common browsers.  Don't see what you are looking for?  Email us and ask!

Many cornsnakes have a pattern anomaly that is distinctly different from "zig-zag cornsnakes" and "aztec cornsnakes," but the pattern is reminiscent to both and inherited in a similarly convoluted way.  Since it is a combination of the two patterns, we jokingly combined zig-ZAG and azTEC to call them "ZagTec cornsnakes."  Even though we said it in jest, the name stuck.  Others started using it more than I did.  I'm riding that wave since it makes me smile each time I think about how a humorous joke name actually described the morph so well and stuck to it like glue.

ZagTec cornsnakes basically take the split, misaligned, dorsal blotches of a zig-zag cornsnake and fuse them together to make a wide stripe, wavy-edged pattern down most or all of the snake's back.  Some end up having an almost exact zipper pattern, and some end up having an almost perfect reverse strip with wavy edges, and a rare some end up with a very aberrant pattern.  Since this isn't a simple recessive trait, predicting the outcome of any given clutch or breeding is not very easy to do.  We are always surprised while waiting to see what hatches out.  Since this trait is NOT inherited as a simple recessive trait, animals "definite het for zig-zag" are not possible. However, normal patterned cornsnakes from a ZagTec line are likely to produce at least some ZagTec cornsnakes when paired up with an appropriate mate. 

"Okeetee cornsnake" can mean one of three things: (1) snakes from in (or near) the Okeetee Hunting Club, Jasper County, SC, (2) snakes that look like the prettiest snakes collected from the hunting club area, or 3) snakes from the area that also have the expected looks.  In all honesty, we like all three options, but #1 is our favorite even though they are VERY hard find.  Furthermore, more captive bred cornsnakes have probably been released there than to any other part of the world.  Thousands have been released in that area since the 1970's by well-meaning hobbyists who are just environmentally ignorant.  This means that even snakes hand-collected there may have introduced genes in their recent ancestry.  I hate to say this, but there may not be such a thing as a "true" Okeetee locality snake even if wild collected. 

With that said, we do have animals that are all reportedly descended from snakes collected in that area.  They are considered locality, but there is no way to prove that they aren't descended from released snakes.  (The same can be said to be true from almost any locale in Florida!)  We still have a Jasper County female left over from a research project we were conducting while I was at LSU-Baton Rouge, and a we've got a small group of adult ZigZag Jasper County Okeetee Cornsnakes.  Some of the individuals in the ZigZag Okeetee bloodline approach our Zagtecs in the quality of the zig-zag pattern!  I like to imagine holding one of these while reading the historic books by Kauffeld that made Okeetee cornsnakes so famous in the first place!

Our "Abbott's" Okeetee are actually an (1) outcrossed Abbott's Line Okeetee Cornsnake het for albino that was purchased as an important step necessary in obtaining goals in other cornsnake projects and (2) a pure Abbott's from Don Soderberg that wash and selected out of over 200 babies.  We expect a lot to come from this bloodline in the near future.

We also work with Reverse Okeetee phase cornsnakes, which are also called Albino Okeetees.  These have red blotches surrounded with a thick white border on an orange background.  Our Reverse Okeetee cornsnakes are instrumental in the development of other, related, breeding projects. 

Albino ZigZag and ZagTec cornsnakes are just what the name implies: amelanistic cornsnakes with pattern anomalies that make the blotches zigzag, wide-striped, pr Aztec-like pattern across the back of the snake giving it a zipper-like appearance.  This trait is very difficult to reproduce reliably, and it will vary from just a few connected blotches up to snakes that have blotches that are completely connected from head to tail.

Charcoal cornsnakes are lighter, more "muted," colored anerythristics that commonly lack all, or at least most, yellow coloration leaving just a little yellow in the neck region.  They are distinctly different from Type A anerythristics. 

Bloodred cornsnakes have a suite of mutations that are inherited in a peculiar manner.  Bloodreds breed true when bred together, but hets from outcrossed bloodreds are often very red colored snakes with some tendencies toward being bloodred-like.  However, for a cornsnake to be considered bloodred, it must have the dorsal coloration and the lack of ventral checkering seen in all bloodred cornsnakes.  Bloodred cornsnakes have a historic reputation of being picky feeders and small babies, but this reputation is a little undeserved today thanks to decades of outcrossing events.  The results are bloodreds that aren't as bloodred as they were in the late 1980's, but the babies are much more robust.  Overall, it's a fairly good tradeoff, and hobbyists are the outstanding winner!

Pied-sided bloodreds are the newest morph - and one of the most original - to pop up in cornsnakes in a while.  This results in a bloodred-colored adult cornsnake with patches of bright, clean, white scales over the lover sides of the snake.  Inheritance seems to be somewhat similar to simple recessive, but it might actually be a type of "leaky" gene where hets are sometimes phenotypically different from non-carriers.  However, this may be more of a coincidence due to founding stock than any real type of "genetic marker."  Either way, this trait isn't proven to be simple recessive yet (though it probably is), and it is unknown if the pied-sided trait is allelic with bloodred, linked to bloodred, or unrelated to the bloodred mutation.  Non-bloodred pied-sided corns are still at least a year from being created.  Thanks to Don Soderberg for letting us buy into the Pied-sided bloodreds so soon!

This mutation has been combined with many of the available color phases resulting in excitingly novel color and pattern combinations.  Surprisingly, the motley mutation tends to have a synergetic effect with other color mutations, such as albino and hypomelanism, results in blindingly bright cornsnakes that are brighter than motley or hypo (or albino) cornsnakes can be on their own!  For the price, hypo motley cornsnakes and albino motley cornsnakes have to be one of the prettiest cultivars of cornsnakes available to hobbyists to date.

A few of our motley cornsnakes produce the "striped motley" look where the circles along the back fuse to form a central strip, or at least a partial stripe, that runs down the back of the fused dorsal blotches.  Although many people try to claim otherwise, this look can occur in motleys het stripe (but NOT in ALL motleys het stripe) and in motleys that are not het stripe. 

Many of our breeders are what is called a "hurricane motley" by many people.  Although we don't have hurricane motleys as a target in our breeding project, we do produce a fair number of nice ones each year.  Hurricane motleys have a darker colored border around each dorsal circle.

Banded motleys, which is another thing that pops out of our lines even though we don't selectively breed for them, are ones in which the dorsale blotches are not completely fused, but extend deep down on the sides towards the ventral scales so that the snake appears to be a "normal" patterned cornsnake with enlarged, band-like, saddles.

Since striped Okeetee Phase Cornsnakes are pretty much non-existent, this promises to be an investment quality animal for years to come.  Even for hobbyists who don't breed their pets, this is a snake that no "Okeetee Collection" can be complete without.  Since this line is unique in retaining the black scales, I don't believe similar crosses "from scratch" can be nearly as productive as improvement upon this already proven line.

Strawberry corns - regardless of the actual mode of inheritance - are unique looking cornsnakes with clean to whitish backgrounds and deep red blotches.  Some individuals have a more even orange background coloration with the deep red blotches and little to now white.  We are currently "starting from scratch" with all new breeding trials trying to figure out exactly what is or what is not going on with this gene.  So far, we have produced what we believe are strawberries, "super" strawberries, "ghost" strawberries, and albino strawberries.  Our work with strawberry cornsnakes is in collaboration with Don Soderberg in an attempt to (1) figure out the mode of inheritance of strawberry hypomelaism and (2) increase the number of morphs other mutations combined with the strawberry morph.

We don't really work with Sunkissed that much, but we do keep them around for what they can produce in combination with many other mutations.

Since Ultra Hypo are pretty much indistinguishable from Hypomelanistic Type A cornsnakes, we do not work much with Ultra Hypos - we only maintain Ultramels in our colony at this time.  Since we are careful to never breed an Ultramel to an Ultramel, we do not produce Ultra Hypo cornsnakes.  This is done intentionally to help reduce overall confusion associated with this trait.

All of our Ultramels are het for other traits, such as caramel and motley, and we will be using that to its full advantage in the years to come.  Expect a lot of new varieties of Ultramel cornsnakes from us in the upcoming seasons.

Our snows are all involved with other projects - we don't breed snow cornsnakes just for the sake of producing more of the "same old" snow cornsnakes.  Even after all these years, lots of things still remain to be developed from snow cornsnakes through selective breeding. 

Anerythristic A Bloodreds are also called "Granite" or "Pepper" cornsnakes.  These, as the name implies, are light to dark grey, relatively even colored cornsnakes with specks of white to pink coloration.

As babies, striped bloodreds and stripeds look almost identical.  Many breeders sell striped bloodreds produced from normal patterned parents that are het for both traits, but this means they are only POSSIBLY striped bloodreds.  In our opinion, that is highly misleading, and we will not do it.  All of our striped bloodreds, regardless of the color morph, are produced by bloodred parents.  This means that 100% of the babies are bloodreds whether they are striped or not!  Bloodreds carrying the stripe gene are the ONLY way to produce a striped corn that one can prove is definitely a bloodred!  Be very careful buying a supposed striped bloodred from anyone if both parents were not visual bloodreds.  Either way, the stripe tends to fade out as adults in striped bloodred resulting in a brighter red, more even colored, "super" bloodred cornsnake.  Where can you go wrong?

Lavender bloodreds (called "plasma" by some people, but we tend to avoid using that name here) and hypomelanistic lavender bloodreds are one of those big surprises.  These are actually purple snakes!  Hypo lavender bloodreds are a true light, lavender-purple, in coloration.  A purple snake!  What else can be said?

Ultramel bloods are still very new on the market, and we are lucky to be able to produce them soon.  From what we can tell, ultramel BRIGHTENS the red of the bloodreds making them look like a super bright "hypo bloodred" or a deep red "albino bloodred" with black eyes.  It is still too early to tell, though, how much variability is going to be present in this morph.

Although we didn't no it at the time, our high pink ghosts turned out to be carrying the albino gene, too.  This means we were able to produce some ZigZag Coral snows from our high pink lines of ghosts for the first time in 2007.  I have no clue how pink the coral snows from this line will end up becoming, but this acquisition has definitely been one of the better ones I've ever made!

We do work with some other lines of ghosts (silver queens, normals, etc.) for purposes of outcrossing and in combination with other projects.  These are frequently available, too.

We are extremely lucky to have a group that has the potential to produce hypo striped charcoals.  Fingers crossed one is produced soon.  As far as we are aware, none have been produced to date.  Thanks goes to Don Soderberg for his assistance in getting this project initiated.  We hope to continue working with him on this project for years to come.

Caramel motley are surprisingly beautiful with their gold to caramel and blue to grey colorations.  Anerythristic motleys end up being a high contrast grey, black, and white colored snake and usually make the best "Hurricane motleys."  Bloodred motleys are still much more rare that striped bloods (which are still rather uncommon, too), but tend to be similar in appearance.  The few motley bloodreds I've had or seen tend to be darker in coloration than the typical striped bloodred.

Sunspot motleys are basically albino cubed motleys.  The bright orange and reds made the originally name things of bright orange "sunspots" when he first saw it.

Ultramel motleys and stripeds are just what the name implies.  Ultramel motleys are just starting to become more common, and they tend to look like a richly colored albino motley with dark eyes.  Striped ultramels are still too rare to know what typical babies - or especially adults - can look like! Very, very few of these have ever been produced.

Golddusts are the result of combining caramel than ultramel.  These are a gold colored cornsnake with dark eyes.  In appearance, they are very similar to amber cornsnake, but many of them tend to be more richly, brightly, colored as adults.