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bristen
at Wed Mar 25 07:35:35 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bristen ]
any possibility that you would breed this so-called "Super Crystal" to a big old normal female? This would be the best scenario to understand exactly what genes are involved...
Good luck and keep us posted! Interesting stuff 
Regards,
Bristen.
>>Thanks for the nice comments! The pics were decent so figured I'd share , obviously the grass is dead here in March , can't do much about that , lol.
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>>Bill the Super is breeding but haven't got babies from him yet (to early still for that coming from him) . His pic is far from what I was trying to capture but he didn't like it out there today so it's the best I could do for now. As for the genetics I really don't think there is any Mojave in him, if the 2 genes involved in a regular Crystal Mojave are on the same allele then it wouldn't be possible to make a Super Crystal (in other words Super "Special" meaning the homozygeous version of the Special Mom ) that has any mojave in it, same as it wouldn't be possible to make a Ivory Super Stripe if that project also is an allele situation with it's 2 genes (Yb and Whirlwind/Specter). I will say that this male is from Tom Bakers clutch where he bred a Pastel Crystal Mojave to the founding female he calls "Special" so that would rule out the "Super Mojave" possibility since the Special mom is not anything like a Mojave at all , at best only one copy of Mojave would be possible and that would only be the case if it ends up more like a crossover situation and isn't a allele situation in the end. So far I have been real easy on him thus far with the ladies and he seems to favor one of my bigger Mojaves . If I were to make a Super Mojave breeding him to a Mojave then it would mean the Super does have Mojave in him and I guess then at that point the Super Mojave would also automatically carry the Crystal gene since the Super Crystal already must have 2 copies of "Special" so to speak just based on how it looks as it's very different from most white snakes. I doubt that will be the case and really only expect a half clutch of Crystal Mojaves (or so) and a half clutch of regular "Specials" breeding him with a Mojave if I'm right on what he is anyway.. I think now that he's getting a little size to him I'll also put him on one female that is not a Lesser complex member just to see the breakdown in his babies that way as well. Fun stuff either way! I am very pleased with that Super Crystal and have to thank both Tom Baker and Jon Levey for allowing me to take on such a incredible specimen!
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>>Anthony McCain
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RE: took a few pics of some morphs today - bristen, Wed Mar 25 07:35:35 2009