cornbreadandmilk
Non-registered User
looking for a blood red stripe sub adult male. not sure what the going price is as i have seen it swing between 75-45
Ah, another broke college kid like myself! Haha. Yes, the one you sent us a link to is a normal bloodred. Motley bloodreds, as others have previously stated, are just as expensive as bloodred stripes. The reason for this is because normal bloodreds (the diffusion gene) reduce the lateral blotches on the animal and also leave the belly scales absent of any pigment (white bellies). Well, both the stripe gene and the motley gene do the same thing (they share the same locus). Therefore, if you produce a stripe animal, it's almost impossible to tell if it's also expressing the diffusion gene without breeding trials, because the stripe gene essentially masks the phenotypic indicators you'd use to identify whether it's expressing the diffusion gene. The same thing goes for motley animals, as motley snakes have white bellies and highly reduced lateral blotches. Essentially without breeding back to a motley snake, you wouldn't be able to tell whether you have a bloodred motley or simply a bloodred. It's these reasons that the high prices exist for bloodred motleys and bloodred stripes, and not for simple bloodreds.
Mitch
okay so there are no physical diffrence between motely and normals . so its the recessive gene thats valuable within the motelys? so i am still not understand what makes the motely so much more expensive?
There is a HUGE physical difference between Motley and Normal animals. Motley is a recessive gene that changes the pattern you see on a corn snake.
These are Motley patterned corn snakesThe difficulty Mitch is describing has to do with the combination of motley or stripe with the bloodred/diffused gene which is also recessive. Both Bloodred/Diffused and Motley/Stripe effect belly checking and side patterns so it is hard to tell when you have an animal that is exhibiting both at the same time.
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The expensive comes in because there are so few of them for sale from reputable breeders. You will see the same phenomenon with morph combos like charcoal stripe. There just are not many around; supply and demand.
Neiman07 you are taking a big chance with a person who is selling so far below market with an animal so hard to to id and in such demand. I would not pay $1 or $1000 for a blood stripe unless I saw that both parents were homo Blood Stripes. I hope you are not basing a breeding program on this stock.
Terri
I couldn't agree more.Neiman07 you are taking a big chance with a person who is selling so far below market with an animal so hard to to id and in such demand. I would not pay $1 or $1000 for a blood stripe unless I saw that both parents were homo Blood Stripes. I hope you are not basing a breeding program on this stock.
Terri