What your describing may be a random /non genetic expression. As we already know that some striped balls are not genetic at all , several imports have been bred out and produced normals even though they were really nice examples of striped balls. If Striped animals are produced from non striped parents they would need to also be bred out in order to prove or disprove the genetics involved (or not involved if non-genetic)in the line. Just because we've seen some weird stuff hatch out recently (mainly with the Yellow Belly line) does not mean every odd looking ball is a new gene that popped up spontaneously, until they prove out they are just odd balls! I also think some of these genes are polymorphic , meaning they are involving 2 or more independant genes , these are harder to prove out because everything has to "line up" in the proper sequence in order for it to fully express itself. Partial striped balls that have incomplete stripes are likely a product of multiple independant genes that were not lined up perfectly hence the inconsistant pattern ,and breaks in the striping. There is alot more going on with these balls than people realize, the genetic base is broad , it will take years to breed out all these traits and some of them will turn out to be harder to produce than others depending on how many "switches" need to be turned on to reproduce each variation. Just some thoughts for people to think about... Anthony McCain-McCain's Reptiles.

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