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The few pix I've seen of these two morphs I don't see much of a stand out. Are potions lighter? What are the differences of potion from super mystic?

Xavier

Super Mystic on top, Mystic Potion then Super Mojave..

Super Mystic is darker and pattern is bolder, plus there is no worry when you cross the Super which isn't the case with the Potion as it can be tough to tell the difference between Mystic and Mojave babies or Mystic and Mojave crosses using a Potion. Visually the Potion is a little nicer , breeding wise the Super is alot more powerful in my eyes as it's easy to say what you made with one!

Hope I'm clearing up your question..

Anthony McCain

Thanks for response Anthony. Since you stated IDing the mystics from mojave's can be an issue that raising another question for me. I know that Mojave's have clear bellies. I picked up a male mystic recently yet it has pattern on its belly. Is this common for this morph? If so couldn't this by a marker to look out for in separating the two morphs out from each other?

Xavier

I think when you breed them together you can have mixed results, meaning from the top if looks like a Mojave but from the belly it looks wrong for Mojave and more like Mystic SO which one is it??? Or perhaps you make one that from the top looks like a classic Mystic yet when you flip it over the belly looks so much more like a Mojave belly than a Mystic belly so once again your not sure what it is you made. This is the sort of stuff that can happen when the 2 genes at hand are alleles of each other . They are only a slight shift off each other to start and knowing as with Balls in general that they do vary to some degree things can at some point easily start looking "all over the board" and ever so often you'll have to keep it to breed it out to be sure what it is before you can sell it and if you don't do it that way your either selling it for more than it's really worth based on the genes it carries or your selling it for alot less than it's worth because your not fully sure what's going on and can't sell it for more even though it may be worth more in the end after the genes are mapped out and obvious...

Anthony McCain
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