Welcome

Fire Stramash is based in Glasgow, and run by John Leitch and toyah Robson. We own a variety of pet snakes, and occasionally breed from some of them with the intention of producing high quality, healthy bloodlines of these animals. We only breed from healthy, well tempered snakes with good feeding records, and top quality colours and pattern. We occasionally have some surplus animals available to other hobby breeders and pet owners.

Our cornsnakes are bred in a variety of different colour and pattern genes, and we aim to produce not only new and unusual morphs, but also to improve upon and perfect the morphs we already have. Currently with the corn snakes we are working with anery, charcoal, cinder (aka ashy or anery C), hypo, sunkissed, lava, caramel, lavender, motley, striped, and bloodred/diffused.

Cloudberry As well as the cornsnakes, we also breed occasional clutches of ball pythons. These small pythons come in an array of colours and markings. The genes we currently work with are albino, VPI axanthic, spider, and pastel, and will potentially be adding one or two new additions to our small breeding group later in the year.

These pages are being continually updated to provide more details about our animals.

Latest updates from our blog at http://www.stramash.net/blog

A new royal joins the family …: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 - Last weekend saw us add one of our favourite royal morphs to our home - a VPI axanthic female. This girl is another Scottish bred royal, coming from Bob Simpson & Derek Rintoul’s top quality breeding group, and is a delightful little snake. We’ve named her Blackberry in honour of her rich deep black colouring, and [...]
A long-overdue update: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 - It has been a busy few months, and I’m sorry to say that this blog hasn’t seen an update since August so this post is a kind of “catch up” of the last few months. The end of August saw Barzona’s clutch of eggs hatch. We had twenty eggs and ended up with nineteen hatchlings: some normals, [...]
Cranberry’s babies hatching: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 - Today the first baby pipped from Cranberry’s clutch of six eggs, and it looks to be another spider. I did get to see a bit more of it out of the egg, but it’s a shy wee thing and pulled back into the egg when I went to take photos. Hopefully the other five will pip [...]
Our second royal hatchling: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - From the other fertile egg incubated from Hussy, we have our second royal hatchling, our first royal python morph: it has an interesting pattern, quite a few “alien heads”, perhaps the effect of the granite gene in Hussy.
Our first royal hatching: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 - I cut one of Hussy’s eggs last night - it had collapsed in an odd manner, and to be honest I thought it was dead. It took a while to carefully cut round the veins on the egg as delicately as possible, and in the end I could see a fully formed normal royal python [...]
Fires and bloodreds: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 - All of the fires and bloodreds from Strawberry’s clutch have hatched and shed now - there are a variety of different looks in the clutch from very diffused from the beginning to a few who are less diffused but have more extreme head patterns. We have ended up with eleven fires and nine bloodreds, and [...]
Feeding the masses: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 - It was feeding night for the majority of the snakes last night - our yearlings are all on a weekly schedule, and the adults all either get fed once a week or once every two weeks, so I tend to feed the youngsters while stan feeds the adults. The vast majority of the yearlings are a breeze [...]
More lavenders still to come?: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 - It was hatchling feeding night last night. Second feed for half of the lavender clutch, and first feed for the rest of them - all but one ate defrost without any problems. I’m really pleased that the first clutch Sebastian’s sired has proved to be such strong feeders, like he was as a baby. Raspberry seems [...]