Platty daddy's in my future

What would happen if you bred a Lesserxmojave bel to a butter bel? Would you get all three in one bel? Good luck on the plattys, keep us updated!

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What would happen if you bred a Lesserxmojave bel to a butter bel? Would you get all three in one bel? Good luck on the plattys, keep us updated!

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No. Since it appears that they are all different alleles of the same gene, you can only have two traits in one animal.

That's awesome!! I didn't know that Ralph had let any sibs go! That'd be sweet if you hatched out a Pastel Platty!! Good luck!

Congrats!! :D

that's awesome... must feel good to be part of such a great project!

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Originally Posted by MarkS

The gene that makes an animal a platinum is now widely thought to be another allele of the platinum complex. ie: It shares the same exact location as the other genes in the complex. Since genes are paired there can only be two different alleles at any given loci.

Some of the identified genes in the platinum complex are.

Lesser
butter
mojave
phantom
platty sibling
vin russo het white diamond

You can have only two of these in any one snake. Some of the mixes that have been done so far are
Lesser X Lesser = leucistic
butter x butter = leucistic
mojave x mojave = leucistic (or super mojave as some people are calling them since they still have a lot of color)
phantom x phantom = super phantom
vin russo het X vin russo het = leucistic (white diamond I think it's called)
mojave X lesser = leucistic (with a bit of color but not as much as a super mojave)
lesser x phantom = Karma Leucistic (more color then lesser x lesser)
sibling x lesser = Platinum
sibling x butter = butter platty
sibling x phantom = phantom 44
sibling x sibling = normal looking gene carrier (Ralph did this several times and couldn't tell the difference between the snakes but presumably he would have wound up with 25% super siblings (homozygous gene carriers) 50% siblings (heterozygous gene carriers) and 25% normals (non gene carrier)

So, if Chaos breeds his sibling to anything carrying the lesser gene, he should get about a 25% shot at producing a Platinum.

Mark

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ah.. i see. thank you sir. :oops::oops::oops:

thanks.

raymond

Actually, that last line should have read.

"So, if Chaos breeds his sibling to anything carrying the lesser gene, he should get about a 25% shot with each egg at producing a Platinum."

Sorry, I should have proof read that better.

Chaos thats really cool brother! Keep us updated and good luck to you.:headbang:

congrats on that and good luck....keep us posted.

Hopefully you get her to go Erik. I would like to see you produce some Platty's.

Brock