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This female BRB has an interesting pattern. It's hard to capture everything in just one picture. She has one continuos light gray line running along the side of her belly, and above, some bullseye like patterns that connect and disconnect. On her back she has some circles and some stripes. I will try to post some better pictures of her when she sheds.

Just wondering if the abberant trait is genetic?

Rangerjoe,
....That snake has abberant pattern much like this one does.

>>This female BRB has an interesting pattern. It's hard to capture everything in just one picture. She has one continuos light gray line running along the side of her belly, and above, some bullseye like patterns that connect and disconnect. On her back she has some circles and some stripes. I will try to post some better pictures of her when she sheds.
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>>Just wondering if the abberant trait is genetic?
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Jeff,

I purchased her from Ben Seigal about 1.5 years ago, and he told me that she came from the late Gary Walsh collection. These snakes may be related. Do you know if this abberant trait is genetic?

Thanks, Jose

.>>Jeff,
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>>I purchased her from Ben Seigal about 1.5 years ago, and he told me that she came from the late Gary Walsh collection. These snakes may be related. Do you know if this abberant trait is genetic?
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>>Thanks, Jose
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Jose,
....Just as I suspected. Your snake is a sister to my two from Gary's 2002 litter. I saw PICs of all the babies in the litter. A few looked almost normal and a few were ghostly looking and abberant like these two snakes and a few were abberant and bright orange like my other snake from the litter. I picked out what looked like the two most extreme ones. Interestingly if I remember correctly all the males were close to normal looking. Because of no males looking strange like these snakes and the fact that I do not know where the males went it will take awhile to breed offspring from the females back to their siblings to find out more about the heritability of the abberancy of these snakes. The very best we can hope for is that they carry a co-dominant trait and the first generation of the babies will include some abberant ones.
Jeff

>>Jeff,
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>>I purchased her from Ben Seigal about 1.5 years ago, and he told me that she came from the late Gary Walsh collection. These snakes may be related. Do you know if this abberant trait is genetic?
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>>Thanks, Jose