Recent Mussurana Pics

As per request, I snapped some shots of my yearling mussuranas. The male just came out of shed, and the female was deep in shed. Just a couple shots. I'll get more up when I have time to edit some photos... busy writing several articles and finishing up a book on Candoia.

Male
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8518/8...b6286f34f4.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8514/8...16b60d1b06.jpg

Female
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/8...d4d3584953.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8098/8...dea54e463a.jpg

Your pictures are always fantastic quality! Not to mention the subjects :D Thank you.

AAARRGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Want so bad.................

:bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow:

27 different shades of COOL...such underrated snakes. Great pics! :)

Thanks for the post, your mussurana look great and the photo quality is excellent as always. Please do keep us updated when you find the time.

I own a mussurana but I don't know much about their genetics. Can you expect piebald babies breeding a piebald to a normal?

Lovely pics, by the way!

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Originally Posted by Blackyote

I own a mussurana but I don't know much about their genetics. Can you expect piebald babies breeding a piebald to a normal?

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From my understanding piebald is a co-dominant trait in mussurana. So yes, you can expect pied babies from a pied x normal pairing. Also let's see some pictures of your mussurana!

Here are a few of my guy, Guinness:

http://i.imgur.com/35yMWDT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/L9Iu3YN.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/oYYZ1NE.jpg

Good looking guy and a great name!

Thanks all for the compliments... I'll get more pics up soon. I just did a whole thorough cleaning on the 50+ tanks, so this coming week will be a photo shoot with a bunch of them.

Imtrej is spot-on. Piebald is codominant, so one pied adult will produce pied offspring. Pied x Pied will produce pieds, super pieds, and normals. Super pied x normal will produce all pieds.

Pardon the ignorant questions, but does that mean each egg has a 25% chance of being pied, with a pied x normal pairing?

Nice. The iridescence even shows in the pics, they must be stunning in person in full light.

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Originally Posted by Blackyote

Pardon the ignorant questions, but does that mean each egg has a 25% chance of being pied, with a pied x normal pairing?

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No, the normal would have a 0% chance of passing on the gene, while the pied would have a 50% chance of passing on the gene.
The punnett square would look like this (with one parent being Pp and the other pp) if "P" = pied and "p" = normal allele. Sorry I couldn't figure out how to get the parents' alleles on the top and side of the p. square where they belong.

Pp	pp
Pp	pp

So we get 50% Pp and 50% pp, or 50% pied and 50% normal.

A homozygous pied or super pied with 2 pied alleles (homo = same) would produce all pieds when bred to a normal. (PP x pp)

Pp	Pp
Pp	Pp

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Originally Posted by Raven01

Nice. The iridescence even shows in the pics, they must be stunning in person in full light.

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Thanks! They really are stunning. Every time I see the male after a shed he is ridiculously black... like oil and very iridescent.

Thanks, Chris! That clears things up for me. I knew I needed a refresher on punnett squares but I was having difficulty finding a site that just... showed me one. XD

Guinness looks great Blackyote :gj: I'm just going to have to live vicariously through you guys until I finally get my own Mussurana.