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This may be a silly question, but since the Mojave gene is dominant, is it possible for mojaves to be het for normal? So if someone bought 1.1 mojaves and bred them, they could get normals as well as mojaves?
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Luke Martin
Bronze Serpent Reptiles

They are "Het" for normal as well as "Het" for Leucistic. The Mojave is the intermediate stage that is (in theory according to the results of Morph King earlier this summer) the co-dominant visual expression of the Blue eyed Leucistic . If two Mojaves are bred together you should get 25% normals , 25% Supers (Leucistics) and 50% Mojaves. At least this is what I would assume to happen, but the super Mojave has not been done yet (at least not to my knowledge) so only time will tell! Anthony McCain-McCain's Reptiles.

Mojaves haven't been proven out to be individually het for leucistic. So far the Lesser Platinum gene is the reason for the leucistics...until a mojave to mojave breeding is successfully performed with different looking babies than a normal mojave. As of now the mojave gene is like the spider gene...It acts as if it is co-dominant...yet there has not been a proven super as of yet.
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Luke Martin
Bronze Serpent Reptiles

So are you saying that a Lesser to a Normal has produced a Luecistic? Otherwise, I dont know how you could come to that conclusion.
Tom Baker

No Lesser to Phantom, Mojave and Platinum have all made Leucistics....we are talking co-dominant here...and lesser has created more lessers from normal breedings...why would it make leucistics? Leucistics have come from all of these breedings from a Lesser....have there been any other breedings with Mojave to make Leucistics?....so until it is proven that mojave has the genes to independantly create Leucistics without the lesser gene is when my theory would be wrong.
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Luke Martin
Bronze Serpent Reptiles

Well...a Mojave and a lesser and a platty have a lot of characteristics in common...except color. The Mojave is a het for something that is given by the fact it has created a leucy in combo with a lesser. The Spider has created nothin but Spiders...it is dominant.
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Michael Enriquez