:: I agree with you but you are combining all mutations that can create a "white snake". ::
I combine them all because they are all related. The Platinum morph is just a small portion of what can result using the related genes in the "White Snake Complex". All the genes I listed earlier exist on the same allele.
:: I was specifically refering to the "Platinum Complex" ::
Again, just focusing on the morphs that make Platinums and platinumesque snakes really limits the scope of what is going on and adds o the confusion.
:: and the powers of using a Sib. Platinum bred to a Platinum and Lesser. Basically the Sib. Platinum at Het Platinums, while the Lesser is a varient of the Platinum. ::
Don't think of the Platinum as the starting point of this project and that everything else derives from it. The Platinum is nothing more than a possible result of a bigger complex. The "main" morphs (starting points) are the ones I mentioned earlier and everything else comes from them. In actuallity the Platinum is a varient of the Lesser morph and not the other way around. The reason that you can only get Platinums when you breed a Lesser (or a morph with the Lesser gene) to a normal offspring from the original Platinum sire is because the Platinum sire is actually a "super" snake in the sense that he has two mutations reacting in the same allele. If you were to look at the chromosome of a Super Pastel it would have 2 doses of the Pastel gene in the same chromosome (P/P) so when it breeds to a normal and that chromosome is split in half and one half is given at random to make a new baby snake (the baby snake gets half it's chromosomes from the father and half from the mother and combines them to make it's own chromosomal map), whichever half is given is going to contain a Pastel gene in it so every baby is atleast going to have one dose of the Pastel gene making every one a Pastel. The Platinum works the same way except that it's chromosome is one part Lesser and one part Mystery Gene (L/M) so when bred to a normal and that chromosome splits it is either going to give the half that has the Lesser gene or the half that has the Mystery gene so every baby is either going to be a Lesser or going to be a Mystery gene but no baby can be a cross of both and no baby can contain neither gene, they are either Lessers or Mysterys. Thats why all the normal offspring from a Platinum breeding contain the Mystery gene and when bred to something that has the Lesser gene the possibility of the (L/M) chromosome comes back into play and you hit on Platinums. If that Mystery gene is bred to something with the Phantom gene you get the (M/P)chromosome which makes Ralph's "Phantom 44's" and that makes them a "super" as well. If you were to breed a Mojave to a Mystery gene the (My/Mo) chromosome would come in to play and you could hit on the "Mojave Daddy". So Platty Sibs are NOT "het Platinums", they are Mystery Gene snakes that can make much than just Platinums depending on what "White Snake Complex" morph you breed it to.
:: Butters and Lessers look very similar, but not the same due to the fact that you can't produce a Butter from a direct Platinum breeding. While you can produce Platinums and Lessers and Sibs with Platinums. ::
You can produce Butters from a direct Platinum breeding, people just happen to call them Lessers.
Why do you think Ralph made a "Butter Daddy" when he bred a "Butter" to one of the normal offspring from an earlier Platinum breeding (AKA a Mystery gene snake)? Because what really happened was that Ralph bred a Lesser to a Mystery and made a Platinum. When the "Butter" was imported there were no "Lessers" to compare them to, there was only the Platinum to compare it to so "Butters" were considered one thing and "Platinums" were conidered another thing. When the Platinum had offspring that didn't quite look like the Platinum those offspring were called "Lesser Platinums" and that is where the confusion happened. Those "Lesser Platinums" were actually "Butters" without the Mystery gene. In reality "Lessers" and "Butters" are the exact same thing just like "Yellow Bellies" and "Goblins".
