I hear you Jason , fingers are still crossed as the time is getting closer, still a bit uneasy about just 4 eggs from het x het..

Yes the Crystal or Crystal Mojave is a combo of one copy of Special and one copy of Mojave , they seem to be alleles of each other making "Special" another member of the Lesser complex . Specials really are subtle like pretty looking normals in some ways, alot like people say a vanilla or a Vin Russo Het reminds them of a nice looking normal. The nice thing about having the male I have which is really better called a Super Special (as Clint correctly stated a few posts ago)is that he can't make a normal, if it looks like nothing crazy your really looking at the Special gene all on it's own as the sire is the homozygeous level of the Special gene . He was produced from a Pastel Crystal bred back to the founding "Special" female and looks nothing like a Mojave or Super Mojave and in theory should not have ANY connection to the Mojave gene because if the 2 genes (single Mojave and single Special) are alleles (which lets you make the Crystal Mojave which has yet to reproduce more Crystals when bred to non lesser complex members or normals) you can't have any mojave influence in the Super Special nor can you have the Special gene in a Super Mojave for that matter....

Anyway hope that makes at least little sense !!! It's a project that made me think alot and I liked that part about it enough to get into the project fairly heavily just to see what else it may be able to do in the future..

Anthony McCain

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