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Chocolate Banana, 9 eggs total

Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Nice looking eggs Tom!
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R.Bichlers Colubrids
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TomsSnakes.com

Congrats, Tom. That's a nice looking clutch! Was the male also Chocolate Banana? If so will all the babies be Chocolate Banana?
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Muhammad Ali

The male was a regular Banana, I am unsure if there's such a thing as het for Chocolate but time will tell what comes of this pairing. I hope to see more Chocolate Bananas
Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

I'm pretty sure the Banana is a dominate trait because those are nothing more than selective bred Newport's which are dominate. The chocolate (dark brown pigment) I believe comes from the hypermelanistic Mendota phase which is a recessive trait. If that's the case, the babies should look normal banana but het for chocolate which is the hypermelanism. If the father was somehow het, then some should come out chocolate. I'm still new to this but I'm pretty sure that's the genetics on it, I think. lol I goofed with my original question, the hypermelanism part slipped my mind, I know how that works. I wanted to know if two banana's would throw all banana or some banded's mixed in there. I'm guessing no banded's in the mix.
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Muhammad Ali

I don't think the banana pattern is simple Mendelian inheritance, though the banana pattern may have some dominance over other pattern phases.

I'm very curious to see the results of this clutch.
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I decided my old sig was too big.

I say the banana phase is a dominate trait because it's nothing more than a selectively bred Newport phase, which is a dominate trait. If it was caused by the selective breeding of banded kings without striper's, aberrants, and Newport's, there would be nothing genetic about it.
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Muhammad Ali

Good stuff man, I'd say I am a week behind you! 21 speck eggs, daaaaang, son, you goin' for the record?
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Todd Hughes