woma x lesser

Do all woma lessers look this good?? :O Love the stripe.


http://www.newenglandreptile.com/ner...ll-python.html

Anybody have one?

Sadly, no. That's a woma x lesser made with the NERD "hidden gene" womas. Turns out some NERD line womas have an addition ("hidden") gene that only expresses when crossed with a lesser (and manifests as that crazy animal, sometimes known as a "soul sucker.") (Or perhaps NERD has a different line of woma altogether -- as far as I know, that isn't entirely clear, though others may know more about that than I do.)

For pictures of "normal" woma x lessers, see this thread here:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=96780

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Originally Posted by Serpent_Nirvana

Sadly, no. That's a woma x lesser made with the NERD "hidden gene" womas. Turns out some NERD line womas have an addition ("hidden") gene that only expresses when crossed with a lesser (and manifests as that crazy animal, sometimes known as a "soul sucker.") (Or perhaps NERD has a different line of woma altogether -- as far as I know, that isn't entirely clear, though others may know more about that than I do.)

For pictures of "normal" woma x lessers, see this thread here:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=96780

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Oh! I misunderstood and thought all womas had the hidden gene. Too bad!

Like snakelady said, unfortunately not.

You can also look at BHB videos. Don,t remember wich ones, but we see a woma lesser in it. And it's georgeous :) Not the most special one, but quite nice. There is one as a baby, and the other time we see it is when he show the breeding for 09. So I wonder what he gonna get :D

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Originally Posted by Serpent_Nirvana

Sadly, no. That's a woma x lesser made with the NERD "hidden gene" womas. Turns out some NERD line womas have an addition ("hidden") gene that only expresses when crossed with a lesser (and manifests as that crazy animal, sometimes known as a "soul sucker.") (Or perhaps NERD has a different line of woma altogether -- as far as I know, that isn't entirely clear, though others may know more about that than I do.)

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For a bit more detailed discussion on this matter check out this thread:

http://www.reptileradio.net/reptiler...ead.php?t=9389

Long and short of it though is that there are 2 different lineages of animals that we call woma that may or may not be genetically related. One of those lineages had a hidden gene in the founder animal (which, when bred to a lesser, gave rise to the SoulSucker) but not all the descendants from that founder animal will have the hidden gene.