I do not have any experience with black bellies, but from the pictures I have seen it looks like it to me. Is this something that showed up in one of your clutches, if not whats the story on it?
I hatched this girl in 2004 as a 50% possible het pied. I was hoping her black belly was a variant of the het pied belly markers, but she never produced a pied. I still had her when the black bellies came out. What was obviously different to me is the black bellies that were being used to make the neat combo's had a fairly light dorsal pattern and black belly scales. Mine had a noticeably darker appearance to her whole body. She was one of 6 in the clutch and the only dark one. I hatched about 20 babies from her mom, none looked like her; Probably 4 clutches from her dad, none looked like her; And none of her babies looked like her. I decided she was an aberrant normal and sold her as a proven breeder. If one just shows up randomly in a clutch I doubt it is the morph. I never intentionally took a picture of her belly pattern, but part of it can be seen in the pictures below.
- Paul
The male I bred this year for the first time has the same type belly. Hatched15 babies from 2 clutches. Most have the black bellies in one form or another. The one in the pic is the best example. In the past 2 years the other babies bellies were much cleaner breeding the same females. I quess the only way to tell is to prove them out. Thanks
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Originally Posted by Dinker0187
