Whoa! I've got to get me a Yellow-Belly!

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Originally Posted by JLC

I can't believe you guys haven't figured it out yet! It's quite obvious that those snakes just have a passion for working on cars! A little Goop oughta clean 'em right up! :P

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Some of those pics really do look like oil/grease stains.

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

In the long-run, You always prove your helpfulness though! :) Thanks fo the links.....Mike

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The juice is worth the squeeze. ;)

-adam

I don't know about you guy's but I don't find anything cool about the paradox albino.I don't like the black.

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Originally Posted by emilio

I don't know about you guy's but I don't find anything cool about the paradox albino.I don't like the black.

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whatever causes it is probably interesting.....

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

whatever causes it is probably interesting.....

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I don't think it's necessarily an "it". I think "paradox" is just a description used to describe strange, unexplained colorations on a morph. However, most of the time people seem to refer to them with the black smudges on an albino. I'm not so sure these YBs should be called paradox. I think something else is going on with them. Pretty cool, though. They almost got the elusive white-headed pied.

Is a Paradox genetically inheritable, or is it just a non related genetic abberation that shows up in different snakes in different ways and is thus generically labeled paradox?

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Originally Posted by xdeus

I don't think it's necessarily an "it". I think "paradox" is just a description used to describe strange, unexplained colorations on a morph. However, most of the time people seem to refer to them with the black smudges on an albino. I'm not so sure these YBs should be called paradox. I think something else is going on with them. Pretty cool, though. They almost got the elusive white-headed pied.

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One of the most popular theories on paradox balls is that the "paradox" part comes from a "malfunction" in an upper/outer dermal layer ... the "malfunction" sometimes manifests itself as black ink stains, other times as complete pattern ... but the overall belief from the people that I've spoken with is that the causality is the same … just different degrees.

-adam

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Originally Posted by SnakeySnakeSnake

Is a Paradox genetically inheritable, or is it just a non related genetic abberation that shows up in different snakes in different ways and is thus generically labeled paradox?

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So far, it has not been reproducible in any way.

-adam

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Originally Posted by Wild Bill

Those look like they have the pied gene, I didn't think the paradox gene worked like that. :confused:

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Originally Posted by xdeus

I don't think it's necessarily an "it". I think "paradox" is just a description used to describe strange, unexplained colorations on a morph. However, most of the time people seem to refer to them with the black smudges on an albino. I'm not so sure these YBs should be called paradox. I think something else is going on with them. Pretty cool, though. They almost got the elusive white-headed pied.

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The way some breeders seem to use the term--apply the term to any markings/appearances superimposed on a morph that they don’t understand the genetics of.....

I guess you could stretch this definition and say this is an unexplained marking superimposed on an ivory. But it does seem a like a big stretch......and its certainly not a “paradox” in the literal sense of the word.

But as Adam would say...names have a lot of marketing in them too….not just logic or science.....

Though The name "Paradox" seems to apply well to the paradox albino ...How can an animal with the inability to produce melanin have black smudges on it? Now that is a self-contradictory trait/phenomenom!

I don’t think the factors, genetic or otherwise, that causes paradox albinos are the same as though that produce paradox ivories......But I don’t think “Peculiar Ivories", "Anomaly Ivory", or "Irregular Ivory" sound as cool or flow off the tongue as nice as “Paradox Ivory.”

The “Ironic Ivory”….now that might be worth a trademark. :)