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Whats the out come?

I didnt know Brian brought that out to the public. I was biting my tongue about it.
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Damian Macioce
www.strongholdreptiles.com

I think he was still being cautious in saying it was proven homozygous (it's always going to be subjective how many is enough to prove something like this). But it sounded like enough to be proven to me and maybe he has hatched more by now.

I'm sure if I posted a link it would be deleted so anyone looking for reptile radio would have to do an internet search.

It's the 8/9 show 66 minutes in. BHB reports 22 pins in a row from pin (presumably known possible homozygous). He didn't actually say that the females where normal for pinstripe but if they where the odds of 22 in a row with no normals from a heterozygous pinstripe is 1 in over 4 million.

>>It's the 8/9 show 66 minutes in. BHB reports 22 pins in a row from pin (presumably known possible homozygous). He didn't actually say that the females where normal for pinstripe but if they where the odds of 22 in a row with no normals from a heterozygous pinstripe is 1 in over 4 million.

I also think someone mentioned the same idea about Spiders. I may be mistaken. Decreasing the amount of Normals produced.
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www.hybridhaven.net

Yes, in theory a homozygous spider, even if it looked like the heterozygous spiders we have, now would be great for breeding.

But as far as I know almost 20 years after the original spider was imported there is still no one coming forward claiming to have a homozygous spider. It could still happen but the amount of time with no public homozygous spider makes me wonder if it's not a viable genotype.