Finally, my BEL.

Right, but a mojo/lesser has two heterozygous alleles meaning it wouldnt necessarily pass the gene to every baby. Homozygous reaches to heterozygous in it's f1 generation.

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Never mind I get what you guys are saying. So anything with a common allele makeup has to produce it's het components? So a superstripe cannot produce normals either then? Just specters and yellowbellies?

My dream snake.

He's a pip squeak though lol. He tried, but couldn't even draw blood lol

I would love to have one of these some day. What a beautiful creature.

Very nice! I'm really hoping to hatch one of those later this year.

Sorry a little off topic, what are the ingredients for the Black eyed lucy's??? Also congrats on the little pip squeak!!!

Black Eyed Lucy is 2 copies of the fire gene I think.

Blue Eyed Lucy is any combination of Lesser/Butter and Mojave. The Mystic gene is on the same allele, so things like Mystic Potions are also considered in the BEL complex.

Morphmaster -
Homozygous means 2 copies of a gene on the same rung of the genetic ladder of DNA
Heterozygous means 1 copy of a gene on the same rung of the genetic ladder of DNA

Even though lesser and mojave don't look exactly the same - those mutations exist on the same rung of the ladder. This is what allelic means.
Any combination will create a 'super' (Homozygous) form (mostly all white snake). If you take that genetic ladder and saw it down the middle of the rungs - each half will have 1 or the other (Mojo or Lesser) since there are 2 mutant genes on the same rung. One half of that ladder mixes with mommy's genes and since each has 1 copy of the gene (Heterozygous), no normal babies.

With recessive genes, you only SEE the animal as different in the super (Homozygous) form.

congrats! I hope to hatch some out next month!

Congrats on that little guy!