Tessera Craft

04/12/2025

One of these babies is an extra great eater. can you guess which one?

04/11/2025

My april fools day joke has gone on too long. Aurastrasza is not blue. She does appear to be a very silvery blue, but it is very hard to pick up on camera, and this is what inspired me to make my april's fools joke back in 2024. I used my skills in image editing to turn the grey parts of Aurastrasza blue, and in 2025 on april first I make her look even more blue, and no one has called me out on it yet, so I have to come clean now as I am planning to breed Aurastrasza next year, and my intention was never to defraud anyone, or to fool people for gain. here I am posting the pictures side by side edited and unedited. You will also see many additional pictures that were too hard to photoshop. it takes alot of cutting and filtering to change a grey to any color without it making the other colors look wrong. As part of really selling it as a real picture I uploaded from my phone rather from my computer as filters on phones can't isolate objects unless that object is preprogramed into the filter.
I was really hoping someone was going to call me out on this in 2024, but I guess I did too good of a job on the edits. I really tried to make Aurastrasza look even more blue in for 2025, but I could not push the color any more without it looking like a poor quality hackjob.

10/18/2024

Some of the adults I will be breeding next year. Expect more pictures tonight

10/16/2024

09/23/2024

I make sure my babies are tong feeding before making listings. Not all are well eat like this, but I make sure they know how to eat.

06/30/2024

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZxzK6hwn4BM?si=0ZmM5Rx8N0XJpMy9

06/29/2024

yearlings from 2023 that I am updating, or have not listed yet

06/19/2024

https://youtu.be/0cyoqIi6BWA?si=yomabtPdaq7oDZeW

The sneaker company Vans used a dying animal in one of its recent shoe ads. The production company owned the mistake in our DM's but still has not said anyth...

06/18/2024

I think I may have twins. 2 snakes out but only one empty egg.

06/08/2024

Hatching season has begun. I took the tray out of the incubator and when I turned around the grab paper towels to wipe the extra water off this egg pipped. It was not open when I took the tray out of the incubator. So magical.

04/21/2024

These are my eastern black rat snakes. EBRS fill 3 desires of mine for reptile keeping. A big snake. A black snake. A reptile that is not common in the pet trade.

Pantherophis alleghaniensis has sometimes been considered a subspecies of Pantherophis obsoletus, to which it is closely related. In 2007, the scientific named changed from Elaphe alleghaniensis to Pantherophis alleghaniensis. These changes are causing confusion. Old articles need to be updated. One way to tell if the article is up to date is checking in the range includes any states that are west of the Appalachian mountains.

There few known morphs for the EBRS. The EBRS ranges from New York to South Carolina. They are great climbers, but are also known to hide in burrows. Pantherophis is the genus that includes the North American rat snakes.(this includes corn snakes) Their care is similar to corn snakes, but bigger. EBRS in the wild can top out just over 6 feet, but in captivity they are known for reaching 7 feet or longer.

Young eastern black rat snakes like most snakes have many predators in the wild. When EBRS grow to their adult sizes their are few predators left who can hunt them. As adults they have few things to fear, so even wild caught adults often make good pets.

Eastern Black Rat Snakes are not common in the pet trade because they are common in the wild to the point that someone could collect their own. This makes for a boring snake to keep in the areas that they are common. So they don't get much attention in the pet trade. Black colubrids (Colubridae) are rapidly gaining popularity in the north american pet trade. Mexican Black King Snakes, and the Black Milk Snake are costing around $300. A Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake can sell for as much as $1000.

https://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/reptiles/snakes/eastern-ratsnake/blackrat_snake.php

04/07/2024

I had my first clutch of the year be laid last night. I did not have room to set up my big incubator so I had to build a smaller incubator out of all of the extra foam I was saving for shipping materials. it took a few hours, but it is done, and hopefully it is big enough for this year's snake clutches

03/04/2024

It is that time of the year.

03/04/2024

03/04/2024

Coridormi is my first snake for starting my Sundust breed line. She is an extreme reverse okeetee morph corn snake. her morph is Amelanistic + selective breeding to bring the black areas way up in size. In her case, EXTREME!

Her breed lines trace back to Steve Roylance from Srcorns in Sarasita, Florida and Jeff Cochran from Victoria, Virginia. She was bred by Claudia Flores of Claudia Reptiles in Las Vegas, NV.

Cordormi may only be a small part of my breeding plans, but her large okeetee areas will make sure that her part of my breed line has a great representation of black on them.

Coridormi has no known hets. What you see on her is what we can expect to get. Her mother is known as ERO , and her father is known as EROT