Bloodred Stripes and Motleys!

[Daniel Wakefield]

This clutch was Hypo Bloodred het Motley x Granite Motley. Lots of Motley babies.....

.....and a couple of Stripes??? I thought maybe these were Pinstripe Motleys, but they look a lot like the Stripe gene. Any thoughts on these? Neither of the parents were known to carry the Stripe gene.

 

[Nanci]

Do you know what the parents of the Hypo Bloodred were? If those babies are stripe, the Granite has to be a Motley/Stripe and the Hypo Blood has to be heterozygous Stripe.

Your offspring, if they are indeed Stripes, and they look like it to me, would be Motley/Stripes (phenotypically motley) and Stripe/Stripes (phenotypically Stripe).

The stripe looks wide- if you look at my recent clutch of pinstripe motleys, you can see how narrow the pinstripe is. Plus, it's connected at the head, and motley is not- and stripe almost always is.

 

[Daniel Wakefield]

Thanks for your info, Nanci! Unfortunately, I don't have the information on the parents of the Hypo Bloodred. But you are the second person that thinks these are Stripe/Stripes.

 

[Crazy Colubrids]

Nice clutch! Congrats! I hatch some Fire Motleys this year that have very Striped patterns from a Fire Motley het Stripe X Fire Stripe.

Fire Motley on left and Fire Stripe on right.