Variation or did I make an ID mistake?
When they first hatched, I called them both cinnabees, but as they are growing I'm noticing differences that are making me wonder if I've made a mistake. I will refer to the snakes as "Head Stamp" and "No Head Stamp" for ease of telling them apart. Here are the differences I noticed between them:
Head Stamp: has a head stamp, has a speckled belly, has alien heads with eyes, very little if any side pattern white, and brown that bleeds into the dorsal stripe.
Are they both Cinnabees or did I make a mistake? Pairing was a pewterbee to a lesser or a black pastel.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...20977f4be1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...1070a409ec.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ece62818dc.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...476b2928a3.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5e0e9e51b3.jpg
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Re: Variation or did I make an ID mistake?
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Originally Posted by
Tila
Any guesses?
I'm with you on 2 Cinnabee's. :)
One looks like the pattern is reduced.
Re: Variation or did I make an ID mistake?
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Originally Posted by
Lord Sorril
I'm with you on 2 Cinnabee's. :)
One looks like the pattern is reduced.
If you were to keep one, which would you choose? I'm leaning toward the reduced, but 2 look like that and Head Stamp is the only one like that so I'm worried I'm choosing the wrong one.
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Re: Variation or did I make an ID mistake?
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Tila
If you were to keep one, which would you choose?
That would depend on the next morph target for the breeding project:
If the morph I'm trying to produce is going to be obvious-I would use the Reduced Pattern one to keep it clean.
If the morph is going to be a bit messy: I would use the one with the obvious head stamp (to increase the ease of offspring ID).
Re: Variation or did I make an ID mistake?
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Originally Posted by
Ax01
i think it's variation. also more likely the Black Pastel is the dad and the clean, reduced one is a Cinnabee and the other one is a Black Bee. Black Pastels tend to be a lil busier than their allelic Cinny counterparts.
:gj:
I was wondering about the dad situation. All 3 cinna/black bees have a really strong dorsal stripe and it seems as though in the black bee pictures I've seen, the snakes had reduced dorsal patterning altogether so I didn't know if that meant Head Stamp couldn't be a possible black bee.
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