"can any snake exhibiting an aberrant pattern be breed and the resulting offspring, even though they look normal, claimed to be het for whatever? Is it just some marketing ploy? Get a few more bucks because mom or dad looked odd and you might get some of those oddball ones to if you just buy my snakes.

Anyone can claim anything they want breeding can only prove the unknown. In L.ruthveni there is an aberrant gene. It works in very strange ways though and no one can really put a finger on it. It does have super form which would make people think it is co-dominate but it really isn't. Here's some breeding I have done with this striped line of Amealco ruthveni.

Here are a sire a dame and the offspring of the first year. Ryan Hoyer of ophidarium.com had these for the first breeding.

Female

Courtesy of Ryan Hoyer
Male

Courtesy of Ryan Hoyer
Here's some of the offspring that were produced by these partially striped adults.Notice the first one is what we consider the super form or super stripe. The second is considered a stripe animal and the last one is just an aberrant. So even though both parrents are aberrant it does not necessarily mean that any animal will come out any certain way. The gene is genetic it just isn't a true recessive nor even a true co-dom.




Last year this pair produced 3 animals for me. One striped, and two aberrant. No super form at all. (Well with only 3 eggs the percentages just aren't there either)Here's 2 of them.


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