Unexpected Hatchling..Obviously there's more to learn about the genetics of bloods. Unfortunately this hatchling, blood x ghost, drowned in the egg. I checked the incubator first thing in the a.m. and saw one tiny slit. After the first slit I always cut a little window. When I started the cut, no motion, bad sign. I knew something was wrong. Drowned in the egg, the cord was wrapped around it's neck. You can see a kink in that area in the photo. The hatchlings all looked as expected, normals with obvious blood influence. This is the second clutch sired by my male blood and so far all the hatchlings look similar. More gray on the head, more red, deeper red, red on the ventral scales like a hypo, etc. Then this one that looks completely bloodred. Bloodred is not a recessive gene but the term het is often used to describe hatchlings that are blood crosses. If half the clutch looked this way, co-dominant would be a good way to describe the results. Only one hatchling and the female that produced this clutch is not het or an outcrossed blood. Strange, unexpected, but just goes to show that we are still learning about genetics.
So what do you think? Comments and opinions are welcome.
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Unexpected Hatchling..Obviously there's more to learn about the genetics...
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NICE snake....good pattern...sad it's deformed.....
you didn't kill it....and it would have died anyways...
bad head development...the kink...it wouldn't have been cool anyways.......
so...
color is off for bloodred......
pattern is good for a blood...even odder than a normal bloodred....
hopefully you get some good ones next time like this..good luck.....try again......that's sweet actually........
the sides are nice.......good pattern.....
good luck.....JY
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Most of my Bloodreds looked like that. My guess is that your Ghost is het Bloodred. Only how strange is it when only one Bloodred appears.
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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield
My ghost is not suppose to be het for blood and with only one, it's not likely. It is very odd that between two clutches sired by this male, only one looked like a blood x blood hatchling. All the others look as expected. Just this one odd one.
Still waiting on that other clutch.
