I'm with Cliff on this one, cool stuff and very interesting but you really don't know what you have so trying to label it now is premature.

Visual dimorphism in a litter is not unheard of and by itself does not mean you have a morph going on. Look at this picture of a few babies from my 2009 Wendy x Rosco litter....



There were clearly two different looks in the litter. I kept the whole litter for several months. After they colored up the lighter ones were just normals and the brighter ones turned into very high reds.

Looking at the pics of your male I see a very nice high yellow animal. Not a hypo since the black outlines are still very dark and vivid. Also not an Anery as we are used to seeing from the Sharp line with white crescents as it matures.

Remember, "Ghost" in BRB's is the combination of two separate recessive morphs. In any Ghost litter unless both parents were ghosts there should be some qty of visual Ghosts, Hypos, Aneries and Normals.

Totally possible that any breeder, myself included could have a hidden recessive gene in their collection and not know it. Only when two animals, both of which posses the same recessive gene, are bred together will the recessive morph have a chance of showing up. So yes, Tim could have a "x" gene in his collection and not know it with you being lucky enough to acquire a pair of babies both of which posses the gene.

Where to go from here - IMO first step is to raise up the oddities and see how they turn out. Maybe over time they will turn more amazing, maybe not. In the meantime you could try to re-create the results by pairing the parents back together.

Once the odd ones are old enough to breed then you can do the various breeding trials to prove out what you have.

Again, still cool, still worth working on, just need to put in the time and breeding trials to figure it out.
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Thanks,


Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com



0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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