Silver bullet pied?

[GoldSheep]

Anyone imagining that? Has anyone done that? I'm sure it wouldn't have the contrast, but I think it would make for an interesting looking snake and be pretty expensive.... if the panda pied has proven, then isn't the silver bullet pied just around the corner? Or are there genetic pitfalls to trying for it?

[OhhWatALoser]

well even if you have a panda pied, you still at minimum need a pewter het pied to breed to it for a 1/8 chance of hitting it. Chances just decrease from there. a pewter het to a cinny het gives you a 1/32 chance. It possibly could be around the corner but few have the snakes to do it. As far as pitfalls, nothing I would expect besides the super cinny stuff, but anything can happen.

[Pythonfriend]

another forum member recently produced a stunning sterling pied:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-Sterling-Pied

super pastel cinnamon pied sounds really really close to super cinnamon pastel pied. i dont know if a silver bullet pied has been done, but im sure for some people it would be right around the corner. i mean, when you breed that sterling pied to a panda pied, you would get 50% pewter pied and 50% silver bullet pied. and guys that can produce a sterling pied will most definitively also have cinnamon pieds or pewter pieds or something along these lines.

so for people that have an advanced pied project with lots of extra genes in their visual pieds, it should be rather easy.

its very advanced, the way i count genes i count super forms as 2, and visual recessives also as 2, which would make this a 5 hit BP, one step up from panda pied. putting it together from the basic ingredients will be a very hard multi-generation project, but if you have advanced stuff to start out with, its not so difficult. it all depends on what you start out with.

and i agree with ohhwhataloser, the issues common in super cinnamon / super black pastel are guaranteed, but apart from that, i see no health issues. so, no pitfalls. except that maybe its completely white, or maybe its patternless and the pied gene is supressed, surprises like that do happen. think of the extremely low white super enchi pieds, or the extremely high white spider pieds, or the completely white lesser pieds. you never know for sure before its been done.