Pearls

OK. Who has pearls?
woma x woma
I had thought that the ones produced died but *cough* Ed Clark *cough* is now saying that the womas he is selling will produce a pearl that thrives and there are pearls in peoples collections.
I have a hard time believing him but figured I'd ask here so........
If you have a pearl, please post a photo or if you know of a living one, please let me know who was able to keep one alive because I really like the looks of the pearl.
Thanks.

Found this on google search! Interesting little snake!
http://thereptileroom.org/forum/inde...howtopic=12852

I would say hes full of it. If he had a pearl that was thriving then im sure everyone would have heard about it by now. And although I am normally rather far behind the times all pearls have died. As for the lesser pearls or whatever they are calling them I cant say.

I know from the source that nothing with Super Woma in it live long. They do live but they are wacked out and then just crook..

This is not here say it is from the source NERD

I dunno, perhaps Pearls can safely exist with other morphs mixed in, like mixed Spiders not having the wobble or Caramel Albinos that are mixed with other morphs not having kinks.

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Originally Posted by Oxylepy

I dunno, perhaps Pearls can safely exist with other morphs mixed in, like mixed Spiders not having the wobble or Caramel Albinos that are mixed with other morphs not having kinks.

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Yeah its a possibility but would you (directed towards anyone considering breeding pearls) really want to breed something knowing almost 100% that all the babies would die. Well all the supers atleast. I would not want to risk it. Just seems cruel to me. For those that keep playing around with it good luck to you and may you find the right combination quickly without to many failures. Really makes me sad when babies snakes die more so than adults for some reason. Must be the adorableness lol.

Personally if I had access to womas, I'd be breeding them off to normals, then keeping males, then the next breeding season breeding it to another normal female, and so on and so forth for maybe 5~6 years, then go back and breed some distant relatives to eachother and hope for the best. Pearls look groovy, but I'd put a bit of genetic diversity into the line before thinking of breeding for one.

I'm curious to see if Ed replies to this.

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A pearl will not survive.
woma x woma will produce a pearl that dies.
Only when woma x another morph is bred does the hidden gene react. That is not a super woma. A super woma aka pearl is woma x woma. No other morphs added into the mix.
You cannot breed straight woma x woma and produce a pearl that lives.
C'mon ED, I asked you straight out WHO has a pearl. Why is it that the womas YOU are selling will make a pearl that survives when bred together but ALL other womas when bred to another woma produce pearls that die?

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I believe Kevin had said somewhere that the hidden gene womas survive longer than the other non hidden gene womas. And that they were working towards making it a viable living morph.