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It appears as though Clark's original albino male was lavender, and through line breading he produced all 3 phases. If the phase allele is separate, yet apparently tightly linked, and breading a purple to a white produces all lavender and so on, I am curious why the purple is more valuable. It seems that the purple and white should be equally abundant, and lavenders may predominate.

Additionally, why are the purple tigers and supertigers apparently so rare?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Also, is there a defined method to determine amel from Clark. I have a white tiger, and wounder if I can be 100% certain
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steve

The Lavender is as you had put together the most common.

Up until this past 2009 season no one knew how the gene transmission worked and breedings were not calculated. This past season we proved the theory, and now breedings should fruit whatever that breeder desires.

Purples hold their value higher due to desirability. Whites are becoming less common, and are actually increasing in value.

Amels are spot on easy to identify by color, eye color, and head shape. Post a photo it won't be difficult to tell which mutation it is.

Regards,
Jordan

wait wait, how do they work?? I love purples, they're so freaking pretty...how'd you produce all purples?

Apparently:

Purple X purple = 100% purple
purple X lavender = 1/2 purple, 1/2 lavender
lavender X lavender = 1/4 purple, 1/2 lavender, 1/4 white
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steve

sweet. the trio I'm raising ahs a male lavender, a female purple and a female lavender.

Sounds goood, based on this new found info. I should be able to produce lavender and white sunfires in tiger and supertiger form. Got to start somewhere
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steve

how do hets work with this? Like is a het from a purple albino breeding bred to a white albino going to produce lavenders or a mix??

From my understanding the color is tightly linked with the albinism. So a het from a purple albino would be het for albino and het for purple, and the 2 genes will be transmitted together. So bred to a white, the albinos would have one purple gene and one white gene, making all the albinos lavender.
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steve

point on.

Here she is. I think White phase Clark?

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steve

You're killing me smalls! : )

Maybe I opened my mouth too soon... That photo is a rough one to use as a determining factor (granulation, hands covering the snake, not close etc...) with that said, and judging from the photo as is: Clark Strain Albino. If you look at Prehistoric Pet's website there are some decent close up photos of the Clark strain and the Amel strain (photos I took) that should give a relatively clear picture of what the differences are.

Nice looking animal by the way! Here's a nice little male Purple I just sold last week, since we're sharing pics : )

Sorry about the poor photo, I should have taken a proper picture for this purpose.
I just haven't had the camera out in a while, so used an old one.

Anyway, thanks for your input, and that is a GREAT looking purple
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steve

Hey Steve,

I was just joking around about the pic! I feel pretty confident from the pic you have a clark strain. Look at the eyes if they're semi translucent red like a ruby you have an amel, if they're rich red you have a clark strain.

Take care,
Jordan