Butter x lesser produces BEL?

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I've never heard of that?

Hi,

Yes, if you cross any of the snakes in the blue eyed complex you get varying degrees of Blue-eyed leucistic.

There are quite a few of them in the complex. :)


dr del

Yes, butters and lessers are the exact same snake. Just different names.

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Originally Posted by J.Vandegrift

Yes, butters and lessers are the exact same snake. Just different names.

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so they do make BELS?

i trust dr. del when he says they do so i thank god i just got a new buttter and have plans for a BEL

Now though this is true that they make bels, but if you do cross Butter to Lesser and was looking sell the babies; 1) How could you tell the difference? 2) Wouldn't it look bad on the breeder by mixing the Butter and Lesser lines?

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Originally Posted by MitsuMike

Now though this is true that they make bels, but if you do cross Butter to Lesser and was looking sell the babies; 1) How could you tell the difference? 2) Wouldn't it look bad on the breeder by mixing the Butter and Lesser lines?

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You'd have to believe that they are different morphs and that you could tell the difference between the two.

Just ask yourself, if you bought a "so called" Lesser/Butter lucy and bred it to a normal could you tell the difference in the babies?
If not I'd say they be the same thing.

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Originally Posted by MitsuMike

Now though this is true that they make bels, but if you do cross Butter to Lesser and was looking sell the babies; 1) How could you tell the difference? 2) Wouldn't it look bad on the breeder by mixing the Butter and Lesser lines?

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You couldn't tell the babies apart because lesser and butter are the same allele. I have a hard time thinking people would see outbreeding two lines of the same mutation as a bad thing. You could just call any heterozygous offspring butter/lesser. I've seen it done before.

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Originally Posted by Russ Lawson

You couldn't tell the babies apart because lesser and butter are the same allele. I have a hard time thinking people would see outbreeding two lines of the same mutation as a bad thing. You could just call any heterozygous offspring butter/lesser. I've seen it done before.

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Thanks guys. I have just passed up many Butter males because I want to have it paired with my Lesser girl and didn't want to have the bad rep of mixing lines.

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Originally Posted by MitsuMike

Thanks guys. I have just passed up many Butter males because I want to have it paired with my Lesser girl and didn't want to have the bad rep of mixing lines.

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bad rep? I would rather having something with mixed bloodlines... I think most of us would lol.