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Motley Great Basin Gopher

This crazy beautiful new morph is still trying to be understood. This trait is seems to be co-dominate and it seems to be sexiual dymorphic but both not a 100% proven. This secound year and we got the same results. Males are Motleys and females and normals and they are F1s

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Jason,
This is an awesome morph. Can you give us some history on it and tell us what the availability will be. Thanks.

Take Care,
Jeff Port

The mother of these guys is WC animal. She is very odd looking but nothing as clean like her off spring. The Father is Patternless. So all offspring are het for Patternless. Last year and this year we got the same results from the same pairing. Last year we got 4 eggs. 2.2 The males where Motleys and the females are normals with very busy patterns. It was total suprize, we did expect any thing like this to pop out. This year we got 7 eggs 4.3 all males are motleys and the females a normals.
Its to early to say if this is a co-dominate trait or sexually dymorphic gene. Time will tell.

Thanks jason

Hot diggity! Those are some super sweet looking deserticolas! Are they pure GB? What locales were the breeders from?! Beautiful!

reako45

Thanks for the kind words. They are pure deserticola. I posted a history above. The mother is a WC from central Utah, the father is a patternless decending from from Tooele Co Utah and Idaho animals.

jason

That is a great looking snake. I wonder if it happened to be co dom....if the super would be patternless???? Tom Stevens
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Its just to early to know how or whats going to happen. I do think its going to be fun project reguardless.

Jason