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I was curious as to what it takes to make the superstripe morph? I have a Het Genetic stripe male ready to go and am looking for a female....I wasn't sure if it was a yellowbelly that is the other component or if it was something else....

any insight to this would be great!!!

Thanks,

Steve

The super stripe actually doesn't have genetic stripe in it but perhaps you could produce a similar looking genetic stripe combo.

My understanding is the super stripe is a double het for two different co-dominant/possible dominant morphs. One is yellow belly (co-dominant) and the other is less well known. There was just a big argument on the ball python forum on what to call the other ingredient and I'll have to do some digging to see what the two candidates for the name of that morph where. I don't really have a good understanding of the defining characteristics of that morph either.

Incidentally, adding pastel to the super stripe to make a triple het really brightens it up and makes an even more killer snake. Now given what fire does to pastel I can only imagine what the quadruple het - fire pastel super stripe would look like.

Ok, the ingredient other than yellow belly in superstripe was named specter by the originator. Another breeder has named them whirl wind.

The specter seems to be fairly bright with fading at the center of the fairly broad dark areas. I haven't seen a belly picture posted but I wouldn't be surprised if it's unusual. The pictures I saw posted on another forum all seemed to have the pattern with a bit of a light stripe down the back although some fairly broken up but at least not the black back pattern.

Thanks Randy. I appreciate it. I thought about crossing it with a yellow belly just to see what happens but I think I will produce some gen stripes first and then cross those with the yellowbelly and see what happens...or maybe a woma!!!

Steve

"Genetic Stripe" bred with a "Genetic Stripe" will produce 100% hets.Possibly Genetic Stripe, and Possibly (Not great odds) a "Super Stripe"

Hope this helps

I still don't believe genetic stripe and super stripe are related.

Also, if by "genetic stripe" you mean the visual then it's a homozygous animals and breeding two together will give all genetic stripes, no hets or possible hets.

Randy,
I think your right. All the research I have done shows the genetic stripe is not related to the Super stripe...You think it would be but it's not....When I originally started this thread, I was getting ahead of myself wanting to find the "new morph"...I thought about it for awhile and decided I gotta start from the beginning and produce the homozygous form first and then try to get into the more advanced stuff later...

Thanks

Steve

>>"Genetic Stripe" bred with a "Genetic Stripe" will produce 100% hets.Possibly Genetic Stripe, and Possibly (Not great odds) a "Super Stripe"
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>> Hope this helps

NOPE.

Genetic Stripe bred to a Genetic Stripe makes all genetic stripes.

"super stripe" came from another totally unrelated situation so will not come from this breeding.

Jared?
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