Ebony

The problem is that you can't just take any yellow belly and breed it to any granite and get an ebony. If that were the case, then yeah, everyone would have them by now. There's something else going on with it.

It's great to hear that Graziani has been able to reproduce them, that's something I wasn't aware of. It was always a little disappointing to see a picture of the ebony knowing that it was apparently a fluke. Hopefully he'll be able to figure out what's going on with it genetically and start working it into some combos.

From further reading i found out that the ebony is not a sure thing. It is very rare to produce one with just any YB to granite breeding. Ony three or four have been produced. There is probably a hidden gene in the granite line that produced the ebony. To increase your chances you probably need to get a granite produced by Greg Graziani. This a way it will have the hidden gene. Well as long as it came from this ebony breeding. But I doubt any old granite to yb will produce them. If this wasnt the case there wouldnt be any granit Yb, they would all be ebonies.

sorry i basically said the same as the post above. I did not see it when i started typing mine.

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Originally Posted by Simpson Balls

I'm just trying to get this staight because my local Bp breeder/friend has granites for 80 and YB for 115 so you'll spend 195 in that range. He also has female mojaves for 450 and males for 400 so thats 850. Then if you breed the mojaves together you get BEL which will then sell for 2500-3000 dollars but if you breed granite to YB you get a Ebony worth 5000+. I clueless why people spend like 5x the price to create an animal thats only 2500-3000 dollars worth instead of one thats only takes 195 to create a 5000+ morph. Now don't get me wrong I would rather a Bel than ebony anyday because of there colours but for people who are in it for the money (which I hope everyone knows it takes years to be able to make a living out of it) please your chances of selling a 5000+ animal is low.

Daniel

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Good luck on the granite....

Most are not genetic, and the ones that are, definitely sell for more than $80.:snake:

Well this up coming season I am gonna press my luck!

Daniel