Any comments on Harlequin Wide-Stripe's?

Anyone care to offer opinions on Harlequin Wide-Stripe Ball Pythons?

You like, dislike, show promise, etc?

Brandon

post pics. these posts get much more responses when someone asks for comments and adds a pic for people to look at :)

I'm pretty darn sure that there is no single gene that causes that pattern to occur.

However I'm quite interested in selective breeding for pattern. Selective breeding really does work, but with something such as pattern, there are so many factors that you can't have drastic changes/improvement over a single generation(unlike selective breeding for a weird mutation, like most animals dubbed "morphs").

There is a great deal of potential for fully striped patterns, just like there is great potential for reduced patterns. However It really does look like whatever causes the stripe in the "wide stripe harlequin" isn't a single mutated gene.

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Originally Posted by takagari

post pics. these posts get much more responses when someone asks for comments and adds a pic for people to look at :)

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Pic's or we picket!!!!!!

Heck no we don't know.... unless you get us some pic's

OK, heres a pic of one, for example, the wide stripe is fully connected, coincidence? Perhaps. Whatya think?

http://www.vmsherp.com/images/ForSale/9001.JPG

Brandon

its cool looking. Normal at first glance and then its like whoah there is somethin funky about this one. I like it

http://www.vmsherp.com/ViewWideStripeBalls.htm

I have a dinker who is similar- hope to find out something with her next year.

i didnt think that the harlequin was proven yet?

I definitely would not mind having one in my collection-especially a female ;)

Like this?

This girl has NO black on her:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...PICT0064-2.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...PICT0067-5.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...PICT0068-4.jpg

Also have another female, but don't have any current pictures of her. She's alot darker than the female pictured.