What does her morph mean?

[Sunnieskys]

Booplesnoops morph is in my signature but I don't know what any of it means other than het is co dominant correct? Could anyone spell it out for me?

[KayLynn]

Pastel is a co-dominant morph. Co-dom morphs are kind of like enhancements to other genes; they're visual and can make some really cool stuff when combined with dominant and other co-dom genes, but are somewhat subtle on their own.

Het means heterozygous, which is like a hidden gene. It will only be visual if bred to an animal heterozygous for the same thing, or a snake that is already a visual of that gene.

That's an incredibly simplified answer, lol. It can get way more convoluted when you really dive into what gene goes with what, and what genes make supers, etc.

If you want to have fun with possible breeding outcomes and whatnot, there are some morph calculators out there that give you percentages of outcome.


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[Sunnieskys]

Ok so her Patel is her co Dom gene then? What is red day and chocolate. Never seen this anywhere else.

[ccplotner]

Pastel is a co dom gene, chocolate is another co dom gene and red day has me stumped never heard of that one. I have heard of red gene and I'm pretty sure that's a dominant gene.

[KayLynn]

Ok so her Patel is her co Dom gene then? What is red day and chocolate. Never seen this anywhere else.

Yes, pastel is her co-dom. Chocolate is also another co-dom gene, and idk what red day is. The only thing I can think of is maybe red axanthic?


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[StillBP]

It's not het red day
its het red axanthic and it too is codom
or simplified to het red

[Sunnieskys]

Weird. The breeder specifically said verbatim what is in my signature line. I have the sire and dame info too. I just don't understand any of it lol.

[Sunnieskys]

Dad is a pastel December chocolate d. hypo
mom is het red day chocolate

[Ax01]

u have a 3 gene animal. i explained her genetics awhile back over here: https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...!!-1st-Paradox i'll also re-post my post:

i see u got a BP from Doug @ HDI Reptiles/Reptile Snack Shack. i have a few of their animals too.

i was actually talking to him about the "Day Chocolate" gene. it's another one of the homegrown genes he's working with and he's thinking about renaming it. if u take a look at it's belly and side - u will see alot of heavy flames. in some snakes it looks like a forest fire which he was considering for a name. i suggested the name "Chocolate Fire" just to confuse people as "Chocolate" and ""Fire" are already two separate genes. lol

anyway it looks like u have a nice and cute 3 gene BP: Pastel, Het Red Axanthic and Day Chocolate. you should make a proper thread introducing her and post lotsa pix.

and yes, it's hard not to fall in love with a BP in person. if i had held one of Doug's VPI Snow's, i'm sure it would have went home with me.

[Sunnieskys]

Thank you. I couldn't find it and couldn't remember. Thank you again. I was looking for it.