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Tessera Motley!

Chip said:
If you got them by breeding tessera to tessera, then 50% of them should be homo tesseras. The only way to prove them out is to breed them to a normal corn and get 100% tessera babies. Unless I'm missing something. Pretty sure you can just consider "normal" tesseras in the way you would any more familiar het. Only these hets make a striped snake with a cool side pattern. Just like the homo.

Also, I have produced normals, amels, ghosts, aneries, and hypos from tessera pairings. FWIW, I sure can't tell a difference between them and normal babies. :shrugs:
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That's it Chip.

Here's a break down for Sarah:

The issue is when people say "het" most people think het as in carry the gene only.

Heterozygous aka het in the sense of a teserra is correct. The gene is dominant. Only one copy needs to be present for it to be expressed.

So when people read this thread and see "het tessera" they are thinking of something carrying the gene, but they are not remembering the part in which this gene only needs one copy to be expressed. When you see "het tessera" in this thread, replace it with "visual tessera" in your mind. :)

Just a bit of simple confusion is all.
 
It's quite common in the boa world to sell snakes as possible homozygous, I don't see a bigger problem than with possible hets. One can sell any possible het corn as 100% het too. At least with a dominant gene one can recognise if a snake truly is a carrier so you won't be left with none of the desired phenotype in its offspring.
 
Update pic

Here he is as of this morning. Growing nicely!
 

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Thanks! One of the "normals" in this bunch is very bright, so I think the Tessera gene does something to the coloration.
 
UPDATE

Here he is, all growed up! I still am loving him!
 

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Lynnea said:
Here he is, all growed up! I still am loving him!
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What a totally gorgeous snake. I can't believe how beautiful he is! My gosh, I'm constantly amazed by the beauty of these snakes. I sometimes feel like I over use the word gorgeous around here, but I'm totally wowed by your snake.
 
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