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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