Looking for expert opinions

Originally Posted by DuxorW

Interesting that you say she looked pretty normal when she was small, I would expect redcoat and red factor to be more obvious at that age? Do you have any baby pics of her from around the time you got her?

It's possible... I need to do some digging though.

I do agree with the assessment she's probably red factor though, since she produced such red animals when mated to an unrelated animal, consistent with a dominant trait.

Originally Posted by Oscarsdad

I am the most stupidest, ignorant member here????I say blood red....

PLEASE ! Many of us held that title long before you HAHA

I bought a few "blood reds" just like that until researching and finding that they were not

In the first of the last 3 pics she kind of looks like a redcoat lava...

So is red coat recessive then? I was under the impression it was at least incomplete dominant or something. I guess that's just red factor then?

What are your future plans for these guys? I wouldn't mind picking up a hatchling sometime down the road for a bit of testing. I've been debating about bringing one of the red genes into a future project.

I think redcoat is recessive, and that the animal in question here seems red factor.

Steve says the results in his collection are consistent with redcoat being recessive. People that work with red factor see results consistent with incomplete dominance.

I have redcoat and red factor in my collection so am interested in working them both into other morphs. But red factor seems like much less of a hassle due to it being dominant.

If that's the case, I definitely agree about being less of a hassle. I know I want to bring my cayenne fire's red factor into a project or two, though if this is the same gene it might make sense to have a more...er, "pure" project animal? Otherwise the original female is a normal with possible unknown hets, right? I mean that yearling holdback is just stunning on its own.

I'm going to say Red Factor, because of the fact some of her babies ended up with the red.
Red Factor does diffuse some of the patterning.

Here is Cinaed, my first experience with RF.
I saw something different about him, and contacted John F about him.
As he grew, the red wash became more intense, and his Tessera pattern became more diffused.

He is a Red Factor Tessera het for Amel Bloodred. His Dam was a Cayenne Fire.
He sire a clutch of babies two eyars ago, and the RF doesn't always show up immediately, I found. Some that I didn't think were RF, started developing the RF wash.

The last pic is his son, Sol, a Sunglow Tessera (RF Amel) het Anery poss het BR

I expect that if we saw baby pics of this snake, we'd be able to tell that it was red factor, but it may not have stuck out at the time without this knowledge since the difference is more subtle in babies. I wouldn't expect her to have had the gray ground color of her offspring in the first pic.

Could she be the non-amel version of a sunglow? that morph is Amel, selectively bred to show no white (IE no black borders if the amel was removed) Couldn't this snake be a non-amel version of that morph? She looks to have dark eyes, but her belly checks are dark but not 'black' looking. or maybe with Hypo?