question about "Goldblush Mojave"

[Pythonfriend]

Hi there

The question was triggered by this video, please watch, its under 2 minutes.

Brian Gundy Shares Reduced Pattern Striped Gold Blush Mystic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_JLMRIqjho

In the video description he says " It will be interesting to see what the gold blush mystic potions from this guy will look like."

Now something doesnt make sense here. If the snake he shows is a goldblush mojave + mystic BP, with two genes, then it should already be a goldblush mystic potion.

Also, if the gene really has anything to do with the regular mojave gene, it should be part of the BEL gene complex. And then a "goldblush mojave + mojave + mystic" ball python would be impossible to produce, you can have 2 of these genes maximum.

Also, why doesnt his snake look much more like a mystic potion? if goldblush mojave is a variety of mojave, it should look more like mystic potion.

So, what is it? Whats the solution to the contradiction? Maybe goldblush mojave is a different gene entirely and not part of the BEL complex, and just has an unfortunate name and should be simply called "Goldblush"? Or did Brian Gundy just make a mistake in the video description?

Unfortunately, WOBP doesnt have much about the gene at all, i could only find pictures of "coral glow goldblush mojave" and "goldblush mojave GHI", and these dont really help.

[Andybill]

It does not look like a potion because it is not one. Like he said it is a gold blush mystic. Maybe he was trying to produce a gold blush potion and missed and produced this GB Mystic.... ? He doesn't exactly give any info on the parents unless I missed it.... I don't know much about the GB Mojos though.

[Pythonfriend]

so, the gold blush gene has absolutely nothing to do with mojave and the BEL gene complex then?

And its just confusion caused by the extremely unfortunate name "goldblush mojave" ?


heck, it would help a lot to know what the super gold blush looks like.

[Andybill]

I think that its just his own line of super blushed out mojaves and the characteristic of the trait is inheritable but I don't know if it is one that can be separated and identified as an independent morph. I am pretty sure the super form looks like any other super mojo.

[Chkadii]

Agreed- I've always viewed it as a line, sort if like citrus pastels.

However, if the same trait is expressed in different morphs (mystic), it's for the potential to be its own gene I suppose.

I'm curious if it behaves similarly to the platty daddy or renick genes.

[Pythonfriend]

you have seen the video, the problem is: it doesnt look like mystic potion at all. i mean, its reminiscent of a mystic potion, but normally mystic potions (as well as purple passions) are far more blushed out, while this one is really dark around the dorsal stripe.


if its a seperate line of mojave that is very blushed out, if you combine it with mystic you should get mystic potions that are very blushed out.

the optics of the goldblush mystic dont make sense to me.

maybe it really is something completely different. Maybe its part of a different gene complex, or just a gene on its own.

Maybe we just need to wait for more combos. like, what does goldblush butter or goldblush lesser look like? How does the super goldblush look? Ive never seen one, what if the super is a white snake with black eyes, or looks completely different?

[gardenfiend138]

He has proven the gold blush to be a separate gene. Not sure if it's anywhere on the Internet, but that's what he told me the last time I talked to him, and the single gene gold blush animals definitely are different looking.

[Pythonfriend]

He has proven the gold blush to be a separate gene. Not sure if it's anywhere on the Internet, but that's what he told me the last time I talked to him, and the single gene gold blush animals definitely are different looking.

oh, thanks.

that may also be why he stopped calling them "goldblush mojave" and calls them just "gold blush" now, and why he is going for the goldblush mystic potion, which would be a 3-gene animal.

And so the watch begins. For more pictures, for morphs that prove something just by existing, for comments from people that actively work with the gene.

[T&C Exotics]

Gold Blush is one mutation. Mojave is a separate mutation. Combine them and you have gold blush mojave. He is going for the triple mutation being gold blush, mojave, mystic which would be a gold blush mystic potion.

[reptile_jake]

Anybody have pics of a single gene goldblush? I bought a 1500 gram female Mojave goldblush last year but have never seen a normal goldblush.