Butter Stripe Tessera

[SMDminnesota]

Just got a beautiful female Tessera het butter stripe and Caramel het butter stipe from John F at Colorado Corns. The goal is Butter Stripe Tesseras and Butter Tesseras. I might get a butter stripe to increase the odds. Either way it's a project that is a couple years away. I'm just wondering if anyone has seen or has a picture of a Butter Tessera

 

[rich333]

Can't Help you with a Pic. But I can tell you.... You Chose wisely by going with John (Zorro). Top-Notch Program there in colorado and one heck of a nice guy!

Congrats on the pick-up(s).

 

[Random8A]

Agreed with Rich! John is awesome to deal with and very honest! Congrats on the new additions! Share pictures soon! =)

 

[SquamishSerpents]

Excellent choice!! Can't wait to see pics

 

[crackerhead]

I produced, (read this as "was surprised by"), a Butter Tessera this year.
John is an accomplished breeder. You are lucky to now have one of his animals in your collection. I can't wait to see a Striped Butter Tessera. Maybe next year....

Terri

 

[SMDminnesota]

His snakes are of such amazing quality! The tessera has maybe 3 scales on the whole stripe that aren't perfect. Anyway here are some pictures! The first one is the male Caramel het butter stripe and the next two are of the female Tessera het butter stripe. I think the het caramel really comes out in the tessera.

 

[Jessica29]

Beautiful snakes. I got an amazing pair of bloodreds from Zorro. They get brighter with every shed. Just wanted to point out that your caramel male would be het Amel stripe, not het butter stripe

 

[Tom Tuttle]

I should be able to provide those photo's for you this summer.

 

[gelshark]

Great looking snakes! I think you should be looking for a male Striped Goldust to pair with that Tessera.

 

[SMDminnesota]

how would golddust work? that's an ultramel caramel? ultramel is shown with a co-dominant het right?

 

[crackerhead]

If you paired a Gold Dust Stripe with the Tessera Het Butter Stripe you would have a chance at not only Tessera Butter Stripes but also Tessera Gold Dust Stripes. The reason being that Ultra and Amel are genes that both occur at the amel locus (think "location") and are co-dominant to each other. How confusing is that? Co-dominant recessive genes are kinda like a "jumbo shrimp" but a lot more fun. lol

Terri

 

[SMDminnesota]

Would you be able to differentiate a golddust from a butter without breeding trials? Could I look at a hatchling and be able to tell?

 

[Mitchell Mulks]

Yes, the golddust would have pigmented eyes, while the butter would have red eyes (non-pigmented).

 

[The Alaska Snake guy]

The golddust animals will be noticeably darker than the butter sibling as well. Atleast with my motley and stripe clutches. I don't see any reason why that would be any different . But eyes like stated earlier is definately the definitive way to tell.
Thanks
Mark

 

[SMDminnesota]

Been a while since I've posted anything on here, but here goes. I've begun the Striped Butter Tessera project! I've had two successful locks (♂Butter Stripe X ♀Tessera het amel, caramel, stripe). The butter stripe is from Don Soderberg and the Tessera is from Colorado Corns. I've get some pictures of the two of them up sometime in the near future.

Sidenote: I've seen some differing numbers on the searches I've done. How long from the locks til the female does a prelay shed? How long from that shed til she lays the eggs?
Thanks in advance for any help.