What would you get if you bred a Choc. Banded Cal. king to a dot dash cal king? would you just get a mixed clutch or an unusual pattern? I'm not familiar with gentics in colubrids.
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Genetics On Cal Kings!?!?
tim16a
Oct 04, 2003 03:00 AM
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Paul Hollander
Oct 04, 2003 04:32 PM
chocolate banded x dot-dash Cal king.
Dot-dash probably means that the snake is heterozygous for striped. If so, mating it to a banded will produce some bandeds and some heterozygous striped snakes. The expression of striped is so variable that you might get anything from a good stripe to dot-dash to mostly banded with a few areas of stripe.
I'm not certain of the genetics of chocolate, either. My guess is it's a recessive mutant. So I wouldn't expect any chocolates out of this mating.
Paul Hollander
