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Hi,

attached are a few pics of greeri morphs.
First is a morph I do call "reduced black". The trait is simple recessive and it reduces the black in the saddles. It gives the animals a pinstriped look and it also seems to lighten up the animals and to reduce the "newsprinting".

Also attached a hatchling pic for comparsion:
up and reduces the "newsprinting".
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The second morph I would like to introduce is called "light phase" or just "light" by me. It is also a simple recessive trait. The animals hatch out as white babies and do not get as dark as normal adults. This does not have any influence to the pattern.

Acomparsion shot of two adults, one is "wild pattern" and one is a " light phase". The pic is not doing justice to the different look.

And the offspring:
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It seems that both morphs in one animal is hard to get.
Last is a tripel comparsion of wildtype, light and reduced black.

Gerrit

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Wow, I didn't know there was a recessive that reduces the black like that. Very cool.
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Those are some very nice snakes.
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Hi Gerrit!

It is a great suprise to see you posting here!

Nice greeris, but you need some more, got the first pre-egg-laying-sheddings this week and next weekend there should be some greeri-clutches.

And greetings to Olli!

yours
Michael

I've always been a big Greeri fan,and just recently got a "reduced black" male & a het female (2011) hoping to add an adult het. female later this year. Is anyone in the States working with the "white" type? I think they are STUNNING! Awesome pics of "off the hook" Greeri !!! Hope to see more of your pictures in the future!
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Beautiful! Did you only get one? How many eggs?
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Nope, here is the second one. In a clutch of 7 it seems that there have been 5 inside.

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Those are awesome, please keep us posted. I slugged out except for one baby greeri. My light to light dropped slugs but it was her first year breeding. So I may have to wait one more year. Did the hypo come from a light to light breeding, I have been working with this hypo project for 8 years now and I seem to only produce the light phase males. Shannon Brown did produce a hypo from my line. Still need more info on how this gene works. Please email so we can stay in touch. Dan Grubb dgreptiles.com and dgreptiles@yahoo.com

Dan

After not keeping any since the early 1990s, I produced a few clutches of normal greeri this year, and to see these new morphs is fascinating. I always assume there is a hybrid involved somewhere along the way to producing something like this. Did these light morphs just suddenly "pop up", or were they line bred? Who originated them? Thanks!