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Tessera sibling

MysticExotics

MysticExotics

(formerly NWHeather)
This little girl is "just a normal". She is out of a Tessera clutch, produced by Steve Roylance. No idea on hets, but I loved her pattern, so I had to get her.

She didn't want to eat for Steve, and she refused her first meal here (washed, boiled pinky), but she ate the next meal offered (live pinky in a tiny deli cup).
She ate another meal (also live in a tiny deli), refused the last meal offered, but started to turn opaque two days later.
She just shed, (her second shed since hatching) and I am waiting for one of my momma mice to have her litter, which should be any time now, so I can offer another meal.

I am confident that she will continue eating for me. I just have to focus on getting her to accept f/t now. :)

Hatchling pic
When she arrived here
Belly pic
Post shed (today)
 

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She's really cool! Is it possible that she's just a really aberrant tessera? She definitely looks tessera-ish.
 
hypnoctopus said:
She's really cool! Is it possible that she's just a really aberrant tessera? She definitely looks tessera-ish.
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I do see the Tessera-ish striping in her pattern too, but looking at the tail portion of her pattern, she has the more standard patterning, so I think that would definitely rule that idea out.

Tessera can affect the pattern on the non Tessera siblings.
When Tara and I did the initial co-breeding of her Tessera male to two of my females, three of the babies in one of the clutches had aberrant patterning.

Steve had another aberrant pattern sibling out of a Tessera clutch, but htis one was my favorite of the two, so I picked her.
 
She's such a pretty girl! Do you have a name picked out? If not, throwing out this suggestion: Itzel, a variant on a Nahuatl (Aztec) name meaning "rainbow lady".
 
I find it interesting that tessera parents can have such a strong effect on their non-tessera offspring.
 
no kidding on that.. I love high white, I can't wait until there is higher pied on the pieds (keeping an eye on walters stuff again) lol..
 
My wallet says no... trust me, Im keeping an eye on your guys. one da I will have one.. but the amount of money I can't do that no...
 
MysticExotics said:
I do too! It's one of the many things I love about the Tessera gene.
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Yeah, but I don't think it is the tessera allele itself, since the non tessera offspring are homozygous wt at that locus. Nor do I think its presence in either parent is responsible. It is hard to explain how an allele in the parent can "reach" into the offspring that don't carry that mutation to affect their phenotype. I think it is polygenic effects from other loci, but that can of worms has been opened elsewhere. This is a beautiful snake, though.
 
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DuxorW said:
Yeah, but I don't think it is the tessera allele itself, since the non tessera offspring are homozygous wt at that locus. Nor do I think its presence in either parent is responsible. It is hard to explain how an allele in the parent can "reach" into the offspring that don't carry that mutation to affect their phenotype. I think it is polygenic effects from other loci, but that can of worms has been opened elsewhere. This is a beautiful snake, though.
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I don't know if it will ever be explained. LOL
The Jag gene in Carpet Pythons (also dominant) has a similar effect in the non Jag siblings. No Jag gene actually present in the non Jag siblings, but they are usually more saturated, and prettier than normals that are not Jag siblings.
 
She did eat for me tonight.
I will feed her a few more live pinks, and then start working on switching her to f/t.
 

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