>>Interesting, I've never worked with, nor been familiar with mex mex morphs so I didn't know that.
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>>Regarding sex-linked traits (or lack thereof)- I was beginning to wonder early in the development of the granite colony as it seemed like we could only produce male granites, but eventually things evened out. Seems like that's always the case with new morphs, things never end up being balanced in the beginning.
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>>Adam

I was actually surprised this year when I went to Daytona when I saw these animals labelled as granites because many years prior I've seen Speckled Black Gaps and the Granite Mex Mex has been around for about 10 years now.

I just hope folks never think they are one in the same and that they were derived from one or the other.......

Interesting that you predominantly had male speckleds/patternless offspring in the beginning. Maybe they did derive from the Black Gaps.

Here's a Black Gap female I have:


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