What is happening? (DUW lots of pictures)

This CH male has been bred twice.
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...ies/Tanus2.jpg

The first time was with this female in 2010. Her on the eggs.
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...amaandeggs.jpg

The 8 babies had some weird patterns, but nothing else of significant note.
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...geriaBabyC.jpg
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...geriaBabyF.jpg

To be honest I held back one female and sold the rest as normals thinking the project was going to be a silly recessive that wouldn't be worth anything. :oops:

The female I did hold back, unfortunately did not survive our move from Ohio to Michigan. We suspect the sun was hitting her cage during the 6 hour trip through some gap in the cover.

That resulted in me restarting the project this year, and I bred him to this female.
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...ies/Osirus.jpg

The results were much more pronounced and even color was involved. So far only 5 of the 10 eggs are out and all of them have a weird color and pattern.
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...irusBaby12.jpg
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/Osirus34.jpg

a couple beside a normal (actually Het Caramel PH Orange Ghost, but as close to a baby normal as I currently have.)
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...irus5wnorm.jpg
http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/w...abywnormal.jpg

Any ideas as to what is going on? It looks like the pattern is either dominate or co-dom, but the color didn't come out until the second breeding making me wonder if the female in the second breeding could be het for something or I just totally skipped over the color in the first breeding by accident and it is co-dom or dom. Both cases make me wonder if it is a double gene or a single gene that affects color and pattern.

Opinions welcome.

Looks like he's passing on his reduced pattern and since it's showing up right away it's either co-dom or dominant. It would be great to add his genes to a lesser/butter/enchi project.

I'm thinking genetic reduced/banded. Color is going to vary from female to female but that pattern passing on is pretty awesome. Good luck!

Regards,

B

great reduced pattern, looks very similar to my banded normal.

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Originally Posted by jsmorphs2

Looks like he's passing on his reduced pattern and since it's showing up right away it's either co-dom or dominant. It would be great to add his genes to a lesser/butter/enchi project.

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Yeah a great way to clean up those patterns and make some really sweet reduced snakes for breeding! I would definitely plug him into enchi and butter/lesser... But I love reduced pattern anything so I would plug him into a lot of projects just to see where it goes... Very cool! That dude is hot too!