Black & White Strain Sierra Mtn kings





1 on the name.



Mr. Morph guy, I mean Jerry , it seems what people are questioning is the name "Anery" you are attaching to these. Like another posters said as i did as well- They are your snakes. You know that there is something different going on. Why not apply a different name (for now) until the sex link thing and other stuff is worked out?





Sometimes we get traits from nature that are just different and don't fall under any catagory. I recall the peanut butter brooks. When i first posted these here I asked the forum what to call this "hypo' type snake. Since the name hypo was already taken people voted on Peanut butter. Turns out, in later breedings, that the Peanut butter is a unique trait as it shares an allele on a single locus with the T negative albino. I am glad now that the name peanut butter was chosen for this weird trait. because it is just so different and behaivs so different. Also the Jelly name.. which the PB and T neg created in the first generation, was a natural succession. It is unique and deserves a unique name.





BTW.Regrading the whole morph guy comment from you on a thread below. When i got the peanut butters i knew the locale it came from and bred them back to each other. So they were locale specific. Then when i bought out the new t negative strain i decided to breed the PB and T neg togther. I expected hets but got a real surprise intead.



It is likely that you may do the same if another trait pops up with these seirras. You just never know what the future might hold Mr. morph guy.



You may think it is unlikely that an albino (or some other trait) may pop out of some seirras. But that is how morphs sometimes get discovered. Through captive propogation and breeding back brother to sister. In the wild they may not be found , but who is to say that other hidden traits aren't floating around out there. Maybe there hasn't been enough zonata being bred back to discover these trats yet?



Oh, I have a final question. Sorry if i did not play close attention to the history on these. but did you prove these out to be a reccessive trait yet? I mean, have you bred brother to sister? If so, how do you know for sure this is a sex linked trait??



When i first bred the peanut butters i could not get a female from mutiple breeding over 3 years. All of a sudden i got female peanut butters. But what really happened is the females were a bit lighter than the normals. Then when they grew up they took on an obvious recessive look. I did not know this at the time and sold off a few females as normals.



below is a pic of the first PB's i produced. The black one is a normal. The light one is a male PB. And the medium colored is a female PB.





I am sure you will figure this thing out. That is part of the fun. just be careful labling anything to soon. That is why i like the term B&W strain Sierra Mtn kings.




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