My First Clutch of Hatchlings

[rishaada]

Hi

So I bred my male and female hypo motley's a few months back and this was the final results. I am relatively new to snakes but managed to pull this off. I expected all the babies to look like their parents but I guess I dont know much about genetics as it kind of makes my head spin. Can someone please tell me exactly what morphs these are ?

Kind regards

 

[Shiari]

Your animals appear to both be het for anery and amel. What you are seeing are ghost mots(the grey ones), and hypo-amel mots alongside the normal hypo mots.

 

[diamondlil]

Congratulations! I can see ghost and amel mots in there, what lovely hatchlings!

 

[Velvet]

I see Amel motleys, ghost motleys and hypo motleys.

Your Hypo motleys are het anery (called "Silver" in South Africa) and amel.

CONGRATS!!

 

[wax32]

The normals would be POSSIBLE het amel and/or anery wouldn't they? Both parents apparently were hypo-normals het anery-amel.

Or am I crazy?

 

[asymons]

Those amel mots look lovely, by the way.

 

[ZoologyGirl]

looks like your breeding pair had some hets...and you got a neat mix of hatchlings. Lovely snakes.

 

[millan_e]

Congratulations to a lovely clutch!!

I really adore theme all...
Those amels are so bright and shiny... =)

 

[sarcare]

Aww baby pics!! It is nice to see them again, while everyone here is still in the cold!

 

[Nanci]

What a cool surprise!!

Male = Hypomelanistic, Motley, het. Amel, het. Anery
Female = Hypomelanistic, Motley, het. Amel, het. Anery

Offspring predicted as:

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9/16 Hypomelanistic, Motley (66% poss. het. Amelanistic, 66% poss. het. Anerythristic)
3/16 Amelanistic, Hypomelanistic, Motley (66% poss. het. Anerythristic)
3/16 Anerythristic, Hypomelanistic, Motley (66% poss. het. Amelanistic)
1/16 Amelanistic, Anerythristic, Hypomelanistic, Motley

 

[Velvet]

Yeah...pity you didn't get that one coral snow motley!!!!!!

 

[RavenSpirit360]

Aww hatchlings I miss seeing them

 

[rishaada]

Thanx for the lovely replies people. The whole genetic thing still boggles my mind. 11 out of the 13 hatchlings have shed and eaten but I am having a problem with 2 of them. Its been 10 days since they have hatched and they still havent shed yet.

 

[Velvet]

Hi Rishaad.

Have you tried soaking the two that haven't shed in warm water? (Should be slightly cool to human touch).

Or you can put them in a tub with damp paper towel, this helps them shed sometimes...