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Nice odds on the stripe hatchlings.
And nice to prove your line to Bob Clark's line of stripes.
Did they all have a complete stripe?
And yes I heard you over here in PA. Just was wondering what it was all about.....LOL
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RicK @ BbI
Ball Boutique,Inc.
The home of the singing snakes!
Very nice striper they have for sale...Congrats SK.
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CB
Does that prove that the lines are compatible? What if the striper from Africa they got is a dominant gene? It would explain why all 3 were Stripers. SO the babies could be striped (dominant), het for Clark stripe.
Unless they've bred the male to normals as well and just received normal looking hets.
Either way, congrats to Dan and Colette! Stripers ROCK. Especially that one they posted a picture of!
Very interesting point. Never thought of that. That might make them woth more.
But were they not selling hets made by the same imports?
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RicK @ BbI
Ball Boutique,Inc.
The home of the singing snakes!
The Snake Keeper has produced many 100% Hets. from their imported male Genetic Stripes. It is nice to see them not only prove out to be compatible with Clark Strain but also prove out to be inheritable. Imagine the confusion that would be cause with Stripes that was caused with Axanthic... thankfully they are compatible!
Congrats SK... they look great!
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Sean Bradley
Owner : EbN
www.ExoticsByNature.com
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Makes sense. Good to see more blood of the same line come in as well! That's pretty neat to see TWO WC recessive animals expressing that trait. What are the odds?
Didn't SK import more than one stripe? Have all the imports bred?
It may be that many of these mutations originated a long time ago and the genes could be fairly widely spread. It would be interesting to know if most of the wild albinos for example came from a small area or from all over the range.
Just like near here, there is an entire population (well, about 90% of it) of garter snakes that are entirely melanistic with a baby blue stripe down the back. Totally isolated by a cliff. Very cool to see.
I wish more people would study things like that. That kind of population/genetic research fascinated me because its real and its tangible.
Cheers. 
An albino badger was taken near my dad's farm and at another location near by there is a population of albino raccoons. He even saw some kind of albino/leucistic horn lark.
With ball pythons I could see color and pattern mutations not being so much of a disadvantage as to be highly selected against due to their apparent habit of coming out after lights out. Seems to me this might allow some of the mutations we import to be rather old and widespread but I just don't have a clue as to how much balls move around. Are they locked in by rivers or forests? Do males wander or is there perhaps a juvenile migratory urge as in some mammals (out of state college)?
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