My Dinker Proved!

[BigIan]

I acquired this from a buddy who wanted to focus his efforts on carpets and a few other species. He told me she was a wild caught imported back in 05 but no one ever bred her. I've seen a lot of similar ones from Togo and was told they never prove to be genetic so I put my banana male with her a few times and was the second to lay for me. I didn't have high hopes about the season, I had to move everyone twice between March and April, they didn't have heat for a couple nights and my first girl to lay, the only one I observed an ovulation from, gave me 8 slugs, an arroyo firefly x arroyo. A few weeks later I saw that coil and knew she was on a like if eggs and as I began to investigate I saw 3 slugs and fortunately 4 good eggs!


I was hoping for some bananas with her pattern and when I cut the first egg I saw something very promising! I cut the rest and found 3 bananas and one normal type after a couple days I was surprised to find I had 2 bananas that appeared to carry her gene, a regular banana and a normal. I was excited to see these bananas with a different, red stripe type pattern but as time passes, the affect she has had in their color is also pretty dramatic compared to the regular nana sibling. Check them out, lemme know what you think 😋


Mom







With babies







Banana with 2 nana+ new gene

[BigIan]

With a banana pin in the left, base morph banana in he center

[piedlover79]

Nice. Reminds me of the Harlequin gene.

[redshepherd]

That dinker has a really neat pattern!

[the_rotten1]

Nice. Now all you need to do is find a name for it.

[WmHrbst]

Very cool! Those are some good looking snakes!

[AlbinoBull]

Oh gosh it is so beautiful, congratulations! Their lovely color reminds me of a banana that's been on morph market for awhile (this one) that tempted me because of how pretty it looks. I wonder how yours will look as they age, they're so stunning right now! ;u; Do you have a name for the morph yet?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

No offense but to prove a new gene it takes more than just one breeding producing a similar patterned animal.

If you selectively breed certain reduced pattern normals chances are you will produce animals with a reduced pattern as well, that does not mean you have a new gene.

The color variation seen in those banana is a normal variation that can be observed from one banana to another including specimen from the same clutch.

You will need more breeding which will include breeding an offspring back to the dam before making any conclusion.






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[StillBP]

No offense but to prove a new gene it takes more than just one breeding producing a similar patterned animal.

If you selectively breed certain reduced pattern normals chances are you will produce animals with a reduced pattern as well, that does not mean you have a new gene.

The color variation seen in those banana is a normal variation that can be observed from one banana to another including specimen from the same clutch.

You will need more breeding which will include breeding an offspring back to the dam before making any conclusion.






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Have to say this is spot on. Too many people jump the gun on a name when a project still needs years of work. Now I am not saying you dont have something just there is alot more to be done before you prove what you may have