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Herphilious Lunacious
just thinking out loud, really...
the 'hypo' effect of the motley gene can be seen in many of the corn snake morphs, but an actual hypo motley seems to be devoid of black pigment, unlike a "run of the mill" hypo, or crimson, or amber which are both also derrived from a combination of genes including hypo-A....
So would an amber (hypo+caramel) motley be visually distingushable from a "simple" caramel motley? And what about this new and unexplored hypo from the Loves? Will it behave in subtly different ways in conjunction with other morphs or is it a mimic of hypo-b? (If it is a mimic, I'd think it lives at the same location, so what happens when you get a snake that's homozygous recessive for BOTH hypo-A and B? Is it like genetic anti-matter? ROFL)
So some specific questions I'm interested in answering (I am organizing my breeding projects to try to ascertain this with some evidence, but for now conjecture may have to suffice) would be: can you distinguish an amber motley from a caramel motley? (I think so, but I'm not willing to try to predict the variance) and likewise, would you be able to distinguish a crimson motley and a miami motley?
It will be interesting to see if the new hypo-B is used to create distinct lines of the traditional hypo morphs. If it is a complete mimic of hypo-A there might actually be a sector in the market for crimson pairs that breed pure miamis, don't you think? not.
Anyone else want to make unbased claims or opinions on how the hypo-B thing might pan out? I'm actually more interested though in the ways motley plays with some of the hypo-moprhs... Of course pictures or other factual evidence might be nice too
the 'hypo' effect of the motley gene can be seen in many of the corn snake morphs, but an actual hypo motley seems to be devoid of black pigment, unlike a "run of the mill" hypo, or crimson, or amber which are both also derrived from a combination of genes including hypo-A....
So would an amber (hypo+caramel) motley be visually distingushable from a "simple" caramel motley? And what about this new and unexplored hypo from the Loves? Will it behave in subtly different ways in conjunction with other morphs or is it a mimic of hypo-b? (If it is a mimic, I'd think it lives at the same location, so what happens when you get a snake that's homozygous recessive for BOTH hypo-A and B? Is it like genetic anti-matter? ROFL)
So some specific questions I'm interested in answering (I am organizing my breeding projects to try to ascertain this with some evidence, but for now conjecture may have to suffice) would be: can you distinguish an amber motley from a caramel motley? (I think so, but I'm not willing to try to predict the variance) and likewise, would you be able to distinguish a crimson motley and a miami motley?
It will be interesting to see if the new hypo-B is used to create distinct lines of the traditional hypo morphs. If it is a complete mimic of hypo-A there might actually be a sector in the market for crimson pairs that breed pure miamis, don't you think? not.
Anyone else want to make unbased claims or opinions on how the hypo-B thing might pan out? I'm actually more interested though in the ways motley plays with some of the hypo-moprhs... Of course pictures or other factual evidence might be nice too