Just An after thought....then I am through or threw...however you prefer to spell it Ben....lol.

Perhaps we need to be looking for more markers than just belly stripes in the het. Pieds?

With things like Yellow Bellies, Specters, Cinnys and Fires etc. we look for more than one Characteristic Marker.
For Example we look at several markers in some of these Co-Doms.
Head Spots
Blushing
Flames
Specific Belly Patterning
Eye Color
Halos
Floating Patterns
Misshapen or large singular "eyes spots" in the "alien heads"
Silhouette in the pattern
Color anomalies...
The list of pattern markers could go on and on.

Maybe we need to be looking for something more than just Belly Stripes in the possible het pieds or other recessive traits?

I can recall when it was difficult to see what others saw in certain visual het morphs. Back before the Yellow Bellies were proven to have a super form. Before Phantoms or even Mojaves were proven to have a super.
Now it is easy for most of us to see. We even kind of joke at the classic, "Is this a Yellow Belly???" posts.
But we have trained our minds to pick up on subtle variations in pattern, color etc. Perhaps there are other more subtle markers in some of these "recessive" traits that some of us will be able to pick out and then KNOW exactly who the gene carriers are?
(And perhaps not?)

If 10 years ago someone gave any of us a tub of 300 baby balls and said which ones are het. for Ivory....aka yellow bellies.
I bet most of us would have done fairly poor at making the pick.
But I would be willing to bet that it would be MUCH easier for almost any of you now.
Because now we know what to look for. Perhaps it would not be 100%. We might miss a few. But that would not disprove that yellow bellies are co-dominant.

Jared Horenstein took a little ribbing for messing with those yellow bellies back then. Sure some saw the light. But more than a few people likely thought he was nuts and just wasting his time...until they saw the Ivories!!!

It could all just depend on your perspective....
Or it could depend on how adept you are at identifying specific characteristics. Either way What a fun topic!

Take care.
Harlin

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