Dave,



That's good information, and makes sense to me, at least based

on my amateur speculation. My theory is that BRB's don't have/produce much erythrin (only in the crescents and maybe dorsal patterns), but Colombians have/produce even less, if any, erythrin. So "anery" wouldn't even be part of the equation. Heck, this new CRB ghost could be caused by the same gene as the hypo in BRB's. ???



Very interesting.



Thanks,

Ed



>>From memory of my discussion with Matt in Anaheim, he got a litter with 1/4ish of the babies having this obvious color difference. No other visually different babies were produced. IMO from that alone I'd expect the "CRB Ghost" morph is a simple recessive single gene trait. Actually confusing since ghost is commonly used to describe a double homosygous animal with Anery and Hypo recessive traits. IMO, with limited knowledge of CRB's it may actually be a recessive hypo trait similar to hypo in BRB's.

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>>Hypo - Reduction in black

>>Anery - Lack of red pigment

>>Albino - Lack of black pigment

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>>Ghost - Hypo + Anery

>>Snow - Anery + Albino

>>Sunglow - Hypo + Albino

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>>>>Matt got his ghosts by breeding wild caughts together, so I don't think it's been proven if the babies are in fact double het or not, but theoretically they should be, so het for ghost should be double het for anery/hypo.

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>>>>And I think snow is albino and anery.

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>>Thanks,

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>>Dave Colling

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>>www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

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>>0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:

>>26.49 BRB

>>20.21 BCI

>>And those are only the breeders

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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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