How can you be sure? Mojave or lesser?

Well lately with the potion craze, I have seen some mojaves for sale that look more like some of my lessers. Is there a way to be sure what your getting is a Mojave and not a lesser. They look almost the same with a wide variation of colors in both morphs.

I think mojave and lessers look totally different.
Mojaves are a dark brown with only a little yellow and lessers are light brown(gold) with lots off yellow.

Mojave:
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/t...IMG_0018-1.jpg

Lesser:
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/IMG_2122.jpg

Mojaves and Lessers are nothing alike now Butter and Lesser however that's another story.

I don't see how can one would misrepresent either one.

Just look at the sides, totally different! The "alien heads" are more yellow on the Lessers and the Lessers are a lighter brown.

Don't get me wrong I have always been able to tell them apart its just that I have seen several adds advertising Mojave when it really looks like a lesser to me. I guess ill just stay away from those adds.

I admit there are some really low quality Lessers that look like Mojave's in photos.. But you'd be able to tell for sure if they were next to each other in person.

Here's my Mojave and Lesser girls together. Very different. :)


http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9793/lm01.png

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/228/lm02l.png

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3553/lm04.png

Thanks for the comparison pic. Your Mojave is a looker. I'm looking for a big Mojave girl like yours. Haven't found the right one yet. :(

I've also seen some lessers for sale on another site that looked a lot like a mojave. I have both mojaves and lessers and mine are also night and day difference like the ones in posts before mine. it was almost like the breeder posted the wrong pic. I've seen this more than once. don

check the price tag, lesser run more than mojave, therfore no one is goin to selll you a lesser and call it a mojave

Mojaves that look like lesser; awesome animal. Buy it.
Lessers that look like mojaves; junk.

Lessers look alot better then a mojo

Not necessarily--I produced some really interesting-looking dark lessers last year that looked like high-quality mojaves as hatchlings. While most people clearly prefer very light colored lessers, dark does not automatically signify low quality--it may be the start of a new bloodline that looks spectacular, but very different from the norm. No one would call a Graziani pastel low quality because it's not as yellow as a lemon pastel--nor call a lemon pastel low quality because it has no blushing.

In general, your lower quality lessers will be darker, and could be mistaken for a mojave by someone not very familiar with both morphs--but lower quality lessers also won't be very memorable.

IMO, the practice of selecting mojaves for high yellow is adding to the confusion. To ME, the best mojaves aren't yellow as adults--instead, they have a pale cream color where the yellow would be, and lots of contrast and blushing.

I wondered about this guy for a bit:

http://snakemorphs.com/collection/im...MMVT01_med.jpg

He had two possible fathers. One was a lesser and the other a mojave. I'll admit that looking at him you would say mojave no doubt but the tricky part is that his mom is my Garcia line chocolate. Got me wondering if a chocolate lesser might look like a mojave. I bred him to a pet store mystic looking girl so I really needed him to be a mojave and that was what his babies came out proving. Didn't prove the female but will try again next year just in case I missed the combo.

That's a very fine Mojo!

Just was looking at stuff on fauna, and found this (I'm buying some balls from this great guy so was looking through his other ads) :)

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...d.php?t=193699

I thought pastel lesser at first, but it's actually a mojo! Wow, I've always thought they were easy to tell apart.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion

That's a very fine Mojo!

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If that was for me then thanks.

I'm for sure holding back a daughter with maybe even a little more fading and probably also a 2nd one about like dad. Wondering though if for the combos like mystic potion and mojave GHI if the faded mojave might backfire on me. Maybe you want darker mojaves for those? It will be a long time before I get to find out and I also want to belatedly get to hypo mojave. Maybe this line will work well for the hypo mojave combo.