Lavender Motleys!

[ecreipeoj]

This is my first Lavender Motley that I have produced. It is always special to see a project that you started two years ago, produce the Morph that you were hoping for. It was independently created, which makes it special to me.

I am certainly using up all of my good luck early this year. The parents were Hets for Lavender, Snow, Motleys. There were only 9 good eggs in the clutch and there are two Lavender Motleys in the clutch! I am going to be male heavy this year for sure! The other one is just poking its nose out. The most amazing thing about this clutch is there is only one normal in the group.

It is also weird for me to see Anerys and Lavenders in the same clutch. This is a new experience for me, other than the Lava Lavender clutch which was just born as well. The Rainwater Lavenders that I started with do not have the Anery gene in them. I am going to keep them that way.

I have to say that some of the Anery’s and Lavenders look a little different in the mixed clutches. Hopefully, Rich and others will figure out their relationship, before I even have a chance to contemplate it. I have one that is Smokey Gray without much lavender color at all if any. Some of these Anerys and Lavenders have to be double homos for the other trait. Come on guys, test them out and tell us what is up!

 

[Clint Boyer]

DANG!

Joe, your killin' me with all your beautiful Lavenders!

Congrats!

I'm a bit behind you but I've got some home brew Motley, Hypo, Opal and ??? Lav projects maybe ready to go next year.

 

[J_Daniels]

Beautiful!!!

 

[Simon]

Nice and congrats on the little lav motley~
the circles on it are amazing~!!!!

Man...
I can definitely say that you're really lucky~
first 17 ice ghost and now 2 lav motley~
man~!!!

You're lucky~~!!!!

 

[Rich Z]

So far I have three clutches from parents that are Lavenders and also homozygous for 'A' Anerythrism. They resulted from breeding 'A' Anerythristics het for Lavender together, from which I kept the Lavenders for future breeding trials, so they theoretically had to also be homozygous for Anerythrism.

So far in all the clutches I have ALL Lavenders and a few of what look like Snows. I'll look closer at those Snows once they have shed their skins, but so far the results are supporting the suspicions I had developed over the last few years about these gene combos.

Generally speaking, it appears that Lavender suppresses 'A' Anerythrism UNLESS the animal is also homozygous for Amelanism. In which case the Lavender is suppressed to make the animal appear to be a regular Snow.

As for the "how" or "why" of this all..... :shrugs:

You know, this made me think of something. If that original "Mocha" I produced back in 1984 had also been homozygous for 'A' Anerythrism, when I bred it to a Snow corn to see if it was just an odd variant of Anerythrism, I WOULD have gotten all Anerythristics. And I most likely would have simply concluded it was just an oddball Anerythristic and that would have been the end of it.

I wonder how many more of these kind of situations we may have simply overlooked because of one gene suppressing another in a bad case of Murphy's Law?

 

[surfrkidTS]

lavender is definitly keeping us on our toes as well as hypos. I can't wait to see what becomes of them and what someone might discover about their hidden genes

 

[gardenmum]

Beautiful baby Joe. Congratulations.

 

[mike panic]

Nice Joe, best of luck with them. That snake will be a winner. Thanks for posting her.

 

[ecreipeoj]

Eek!

Thanks Rich,
I believe you stated in the past that you thought that the Lavender gene suppressed the Anery A gene and your results this year sure confirm that.

The main reason that I did not want the Anery A gene and Lavender gene in the same mix was the possible confusion of Snows and Opals that may be produce in the same clutch. It seems like my concerns have been “possible” confirmed by your results this years.

Homo Lavender and Anery A = Lavender phenotype

Homo Lavender, Anery A and Amel = Snow phenotype. EEK!!!

Here are a couple of photos of my second Lavender Motley who is still hiding out in its egg soaking up its yoke. It looks very similar to the first one out. One was taken in the shade and the other morning light.

I prefer the Lavender gene over the Anery A gene. It is like a color TV over a black and white one. I like my Anery A’s to be Black and Silver, which is also a cool look.

The Black and Pink Anery A’s are starting to get some color. Now if I can get a Black and Light Blue Anery A , with pink thrown in on top, we would need our color monitors again.

The possibilities do seem endless, as well as the questions and surprises. Would we have it any other way? The challenge is what makes the game fun to play.

 

[Simon]

Love the two lav motley~~

The one in the egg is even better~~
So cute~!!!!
Man...when am I ever going to get any of these.....
then the ultra or lava lavender motley...hahahahah

I want everything.......

 

[ecreipeoj]

I just hatched out some Hets for Striped Lava Lavenders, so if I am lucky in two years we might get a look at one or two.