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I got 9 this morning from one of my spector females so hopefully in July I will have some little ones crawling around!

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Matt Lerer
Ghi Reptiles

Very nice Matt!

Best of luck there man!

Hope I get some of that luck here...

Anthony McCain

Hey, BTW is it Specter or Spector anyway?

I guess I just like the original name better.

Anthony

Not sure which one it is...maybe I am spelling it wrong? Het. Super Stripe also works for me...I'm not too caring about the name...as long as I have them!
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Matt Lerer
Ghi Reptiles

I agree Matt, it's what it does not just what it's named!

Nice clutch either way man!

Anthony

Bill Shakespeare had it right back in the day..." a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". Anthony and Matt, may you both hatch more than a few "roses". Good luck!!!
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Bill Buchman

Hope you get some nice stuff out of that clutch....
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Hector

>>I got 9 this morning from one of my spector females so hopefully in July I will have some little ones crawling around!
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>>Matt Lerer
>> Ghi Reptiles

Wow,nice!..out of nice chances you should hit on at least one pastel sueprstripe..but i'll guess that there are three in there...good luck!
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Charles Glaspie
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Ive got my fingers crossed for you Matt
Damian
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Damian Macioce
www.strongholdreptiles.com

Nice clutch! Could you explain how this pairing produces the super stripe please? Im not understanding how a yellowbelly to a spector(also whats a spector) makes the super stripe. Also i thought whirlwinds made the super stripe so any info would be appreciated. thanks

Spector/specter (spelling isn't my strong point) MAY be the same thing as whirlwind. At any rate, either combined with yellow belly makes a super stripe. I've also heard that super stripe X normal only produces the two superstripe parent types (no normals or super stripes). So it's looking like yellow belly and spector/specter/whirlwind may be alleles; different mutations of the same gene. I believe an Ivory has a stripe so if it help maybe think of a super stripe as an Ivory with more color. Not sure if anyone has produced the homozygous specter/spector/whirlwind yet but maybe we'll get to see what that looks like this year. You should be able to breed that homozygous animal to an ivory and produce 100% super stripe clutches.

Hey Randy, looking at that female, she reminds me a lot of my male Ozzy, the one we don't know quite what he is. That would be sweet if I got some Super stripes when I breed him to my YB. Later!

If you are going by the name that Jared Horenstein called the Het For Super Stripe then the correct spelling is Specter. Check out this thread here on Kingsnake and you can see what spelling Jared used.

forums.kingsnake.com/viewarch.php?id=1376404,1376404&key=2007&show_threads=2

Just for the record even though Jared Horenstein was the first to produce a Super Stripe using them Anthony McCain was the first one to actually be able to distinguish them from Normals. His name for them is Whirlwinds. I think they are forever going to be referred to as Het For Super Stripe/ Specter/ Whirlwind. LOL

PS Nice going Matt! Good luck hitting the Pastel Super Stripe.

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Albey Scholl
Albeys Too Cool Reptiles
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What distinguishes a specter from a normal? (aside from them producing super stripes)

Congrats Matt,,

Cheers
Rolf