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THe tiger has the same pattern as a tri-striped, is it just something happened? Or is it that the tri-stripe gene is a part to attirbute to the tiger gene? I mean how can you truely see a tiger from a tri-striped? Ive seen many tri-striped and only a few tigers. Any information is greatly appreciated.

>>THe tiger has the same pattern as a tri-striped, is it just something happened? Or is it that the tri-stripe gene is a part to attirbute to the tiger gene? I mean how can you truely see a tiger from a tri-striped? Ive seen many tri-striped and only a few tigers. Any information is greatly appreciated.

I'm sure Anthony will pipe in with all the details but as I understand it the 'Tiger' phase is a Co-Dominant trait. If you breed a Tiger with any other patterned carpet you will get Tigers. Also to the color qualitly is a heck of a lot better, which seems to improve when tigers are bred to other tigers (possibly super Tigers?).

Darci
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Takes all kinds to make a World...

The trait is actually dominant. The heterozygous tigers look just
like the homozygous and there is no super form.

I don't know how the Tri-stripe morph works.

THe tiger has the same pattern as a tri-striped, is it just something happened? Or is it that the tri-stripe gene is a part to attirbute to the tiger gene?

No, the pattern is more prominant in the Tiger than it is in the tri-stripes. The Tiger is a different mutation. It's a unique morph, whereas there are several different lines of tri-stripes out there.

I mean how can you truely see a tiger from a tri-striped?

This was taken directly from my website...

"The Tiger varies from other striped or "tri-stripe" Coastals in several ways. First of all, the head pattern is solid black and very reduced, yet well defined, much like that of a Jaguar. They also exhibit a gorgeous cream-white to yellow coloration, which is not typically seen in other "tri-stripe" stripe Coastals. The striping is also much more prominent, with some specimens having up to five stripes, not counting the brown "stripe" that develops within the black stripe on either side of the yellow dorsal stripe."

Ive seen many tri-striped and only a few tigers.

That's because, as I was saying before, there are many different lines of "tri-stripe" Carpets, whereas there is only one known lineage of Tigers.

Click here to see the Tiger Carpet Python section of my website.

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Anthony Caponetto
www.ACreptiles.com

Anthony I didn't take anything from your site, It is where i read about it all but I didn't find any articles on how to tell them apart or anything.