Re: Betcha cant name this morph
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Originally Posted by
Serpent_Nirvana
SnakeLab, you probably already thought of this, but was the YB mama a virgin?
The only other thing I can think of would be that she had been previously bred by something other than the ivory, and retained some sperm from that.
Aside from that, it will be interesting to see what that little girl produces -- as krmn22 above me suggested, maybe she will throw something funky into the ivory mix, like some of the other "normal" looking variants in this complex seem to do (specter, etc. -- and yes, I'm sure there are ways to differentiate a specter from a normal, but danged if I can tell what they are!)
That could be a possibility and one ive thought of until her sister who looks just like her produced ivories this year. Because i know the pairing that produced her im confident in what she is. Could it be a flaw in the particular yellowbelly line? I dont know. But we will see what she does this year. All morphs have their subtleties and this just may be one of the yellowbellies. As i agree that its not normal not to see the markings it is possible
Re: Betcha cant name this morph
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Originally Posted by
mpkeelee
BEL in this thread could only mean black eyed leucistic, aka ivory, so I don't know how u got confused.
Black eyed leucistics are super fires, not ivories. ;)
Re: Betcha cant name this morph
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Originally Posted by
meowmeowkazoo
Black eyed leucistics are super fires, not ivories. ;)
EXACTLY my point ....
I was never the one that was confused ... lol..
As stated, an ivory is two copies of the yellow belly gene, and while it is a leucistic morph, it is called an "ivory" or super yellowbelly.
A BEL is either a blue or black eyed leucistic, which in ball python world, only means BluEL complex snakes or super fires.