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snakehorse
at Wed Jan 10 17:34:20 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by snakehorse ]
duh - that a motley bred to a hypomelanistic snake would "lose" the pattern since hypo means less pigment and patterns are dependent on pigment?
question for hypo/salmon breeders.
do you think that the reduced pattern/thin saddle/clean pattern on certain heterozygous (non-super) hypos is genetic? (other than the fact that it is "hypo" - I'm talking about the "quality" of smaller patterned saddles).
Because I see alot of "normal" (non super) hypos around with almost a wild-type pattern. Even sunglows. Of course, when the genes are doubled up, you have "super" hypos almost always which appear to have smaller saddles.
Do these more normal looking hypos/sunglows ever produce the more clean, reduced pattern babies? out of normal snakes. or does the reduced thinner saddles always come from a parent like with reduced/thinner saddles - selective breeding result? curious.
I guess if you wanted motleys to keep the thicker type pattern, you'd breed them to more patterned hypos, not the thin-saddled ones.
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It make sense... - snakehorse, Wed Jan 10 17:34:20 2007