Can't remember seeing this anywhere so here goes. If you bred a hypo male and a mojave het hypo female. You hit the odds right and got a mojave hypo male offspring in the clutch. You raise him and bred him to his mojave het hypo mother. Your odds say mojave and lucys...What does the hypo gene do to the lucys? I can't say I remember ever seeing or hearing about that.
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0.1 hypo columbian
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In theory, it shouldn't do anything noticeable. The Hypo gene causes a reduction in the number or effectiveness, to different degrees, in the melanophores. Melanophores are the cells that produce the dark green, brown, and black colors in reptiles. In Lucy's, however, all of their chromatophores (melanophores, xanthaphores, and iridiphores) are largely non-functioning or not present at all. So a Lucy would be a kind of "double carrier" of the Hypo gene because it (again, in theory) could not be expressed in a Lucy.
Having said all of that fun stuff, some Lucy's develop color or pattern earlier or later in their lives. The Hypo gene may affect this. IMO, it would be so minimal, it wouldn't be very impressive. Genetic powerhouse animal for breeding, just nothing too exciting to look at.
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25 year old 0.1 from Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly, 2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband
According to NERD (from their Ball Python book), the Hypo Super Mojave is a cleaner white than the Super Mojave. Apparently the Hypo gene washes out the grayish or purplish coloration that Super Mojaves have on their heads. The result is a whiter snake
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Sed et serpens erat callidior cunctis animantibus terrae quae fecerat Dominus Deus...
I think TSK made these for the 1st time 3 or 4 years ago...Super Mojave has a pattern to it....the Hypo Super is solid white...They had it at Daytona to show it off....back when the BIG Breeders would goto Daytona to show off all of there stuff...
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Michael Enriquez
