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Hey I wondered if you had any info on the reduced pattern moellendorffi. I see from your pair that the amount of pattern seems to vary greatly on them. Do you know anything about where the line came from. I'm wondering if it's a dominant, codominant or a recessive trait. If thought to be recessive do you know of anyone that has hets that throw some regular patterned and some reduced patterned ones also.
From how few I've seen so far I was guessing it might still be guess work at this time but hoped you might have some good history on the line.
One way or the other I really like the look and how the amount of pattern varies.
Think you might be breeding them in the next year ot two?
Thanks, Randy W.

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Randy Whittington

It is a simple resesive, Hets and visuals. I have a het male and patternless female. The line started from a wc animals from over ten years ago, pictured on BM's site here is a pic of it, not my photo. I hope they all age and turn into this snake, we will see.

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Gerard

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What Gerard said,
and I will add, that I am not sure if the patterns reduce as the animal matures, the pair with me is from 2010, and the amount of patterning hasn't changed yet.
I won't know much more about that, or how the trait passes on to offspring for several more years.
Hopefully around 2018-2020 time frame we will start seeing 2nd gen offspring from the bloodline.

the original animal in the photo above made it to a prominent breeder of mollendorffi in Colorado in the 90's from my understanding, and I am not sure if that particular animal is still alive today.

I should also state that all this is 2nd hand info, so I may be missing some of the details.

Yeah, it's such a cool snake, I hope they do go through some kind of ontogentic change as they mature. Either way, it's a awesome addition to the species and I hope to help make some more. Thanks for posting your animals are awesome, talk to you later bud.
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Gerard

"Sleep my friend and you will see, your dreams are my reality. "

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GONE FISHING!!!

Thanks for the info. I hope to add some of those to my group in the near future.
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Randy Whittington