>>What i was trying to say was that I believe that YB's hold genetics that unlock different mutations in many differnt ball pythons. Sorry about that guys if it came out the wrong way.

Great...I'm totally not dogging on you, but I do wonder what you mean. When it comes down to it, unless a het ivory causes a new genetic mutation to occur (which I have no reason to believe it does) the only way a het ivory gene can effect the "visualness" (phenotype) of a snake is if it is a combination morph (Het Ivory gene another gene)

...If this is the case, when the "unlocked" mutation reproduced, it would parent normals, the original mutation, the het ivory and the new "unlocked" morph (let's just assume they're all dominant for simplicity)

...regardless, if a het ivory plays a part in the creation of a morph, het ivories would be produced when breeding them in the sucessive generations. So, call it goblin, het ivory, yellow belly, or "super-secret decoder gene" it's still a co-dominant gene that (at best) COMBINES w/ other genes to do cool stuff, like the lessers and mojo's.

I do like thinking this out, so keep it up...correct me where I'm not understanding you!
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