Male Pinstripe

[Morris Reese]

I have a Mojave female that i plan to breed. I am looking for a single gene male pinstripe. I am hoping to produce a jigsaw. I have found quite a few pinstripes that are two and three gene. My question for the gene experts is....
Would my chances of producing a jigsaw be better if I kept the pinstripe to a single gene instead of say a lemon blast or pinstripe orange ghost?

[Slowcountry Balls]

It depends on how you look at it. No matter how many genes you have in addition to the Pinstripe, it will always be a 1 in 2 chance of the offspring getting the Pinstripe gene and a 1 in 2 chance of the offspring getting the Mojave gene. So if you were to pick a Lemon Blast, you would have

a 1 in 8 chance of producing a normal
a 1 in 8 chance of producing a Jigsaw Blast
a 1 in 4 chance of producing a Lemon Blast
a 1 in 4 chance of producing a Pastave
a 1 in 4 chance of producing a Jigsaw
a 1 in 2 chance of producing a Pastel
a 1 in 2 chance of producing a Mojave
a 1 in 2 chance of producing a Pinstripe

But mathmaticaly speaking, a Pastave, a Lemon Blast, and a Jigsaw Blast are all subsets of the 1 in 2 chance of producing a Pastel. So it means that while you have a 1 in 4 chance of producing a Jigsaw, half of those Jigsaws have a chance at being Jigsaw Blasts. So you still have the same odds of producing a Jigsaw, but you could also produce a more complicated snake.

If you picked a Pinstripe Hypo, your odds would still be a 1 in 4 chance of producing a Jigsaw, but because the Pinstripe Hypo is homozygous for Hypo, all the babies would be heterozygous (het) for Hypo. So they would have 1 Hypo gene, but it would not affect their appearance.

[Pythonfriend]

i say if you want to breed...

there is no conceivable reason to look for a single-gene male pinstripe for breeding. never. never ever. it just doesnt compute. a male pinstripe is a nice pet. a male pinstripe would need to display true perfection in all regards to be considered worth breeding in a fringe project. that is the benefit of the doubt: maybe there is a project somewhere where a 1 in 100 absolutely perfect pinstripe male could make sense.

but generally speaking: no. you dont want a pinstripe male. its too weak. get a kingpin = lesser/butter pinstripe. or get a jigsaw = mojave pinstripe. or a nice fire pinstripe. or an enchi pinstripe. maybe a nice sugar/calico pinstripe. or something with orange dream, and banana is also coming down in price, maybe a banana pin.

your chances of _merely_ producing a jigsaw would be higher with just a pin male. add one extra gene, and your chances to get just a jigsaw get cut in half, but the other half will be jigsaw + the extra gene. add lesser/butter or mojave, and you get blue-eye leucistics, and when looking at that all-white beauty (super mojaves have a grey head, lesser/butter mojaves are white) with blue eyes, figuring out if it got pinstripe becomes secondary.

i always link this in threads like this, so i wont change my habit:
http://ballpythonbreeder.com/2012/02...thon-breeders/

just look for genes that might make jigsaw more awesome, and thats a matter of taste. personally i dont think pastel and pinstripe interact very well. and if i had a free choice, i would probarbly go for something with special/crystal. i love the non-white super combos in the BEL gene complex. and everything in the BEL complex ages nicely and interacts nicely with pinstripe.