but in recent years have gotten a few motleys that have had a few checks on the belly. I specifically have one "banded" type motley golddust with a few checks on his belly. When I breed him to a typical motley, I generally get all motleys, but the dorsal patterns are often not as unusual as the momn's pattern, and they often have a few checks as well. I also bred him to a stripe with the same results. I plan to keep some of his babies and will breed them together - it will be interesting to see what happens in the next generation.



I have seen or produced an occasional motley with a belly check here and there in recent years. But I have never had another adult breeder with the checks, so this golddust male is the only real experience I have had in producing that kind of motley. I will definitely hold back babies with fewer or no checks as I like to be able to define motleys by the lack of checks as well as the dorsal pattern.



I have never had any stripes with the partial belly checks. That could be because I don't keep as many stripes as I do motleys. Or maybe the checks don't occur in stripes. I am not sure about that.

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