Lesser known morph issues

[Armiyana]

Posting in a thread on the morphmarket forums has me thinking about some genetic issues that may not be spoken knowledge.

For example... my thread in question is about a hatchling that appears to be a Red Eye Lucy, but has micropthalmia.
I recalled seeing a few couple different super lessers with small eyes and filed away in my brain that lessers can be prone to primarily bug eye, but also other eye problems as well.
When told that wasn't the case, I looked to the internet for support of my mental notes and found that no one is talking about the "white demon" Super lesser albino micropthalmia issue. Apparently the only one known that they said was only super lesser (or other BEL) pieds.

We all know of the OWAL issues list.
Even though this list exists, the most prevalent issue we hear about is spider wobble, though sable, woma, spotnose and champagne seem to get swept under the rug alot.

Have you seen other issues that may not have been spoken of?

[nikkubus]

I am not personally aware of any that are not on that OWAL list. Not to say that there aren't more.

[Armiyana]

I kind of laughed a little when I was told that lesser only causes bug eyes...but then told that immediately after it was already known that lesser pieds had microphthalmia. It's still the lesser gene causing an eye problem.

I didn't realize how prevalent it was in albinos until I started looking through the super lesser albinos that had been sold through there. I was hoping for one or two, but found more than that. someone who was in the hobby for a long while said on Reddit that BEL albinos are known to have micro eyes... Which I had never seen anyone else mention anywhere before.

[Zincubus]

For what it’s worth ...

I got five , gorgeous and perfect Albino Royal babies from a pair of Albino Royals ..

Interestingly they are all slightly more colourful than the parents which were already lovely colours.


All perfect temperament and ravenous eaters ..


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[Armiyana]

For what it’s worth ...

I got five , gorgeous and perfect Albino Royal babies from a pair of Albino Royals ..

Interestingly they are all slightly more colourful than the parents which were already lovely colours.

Sounds like a good line on the color, but that's just that further proof that it's really the Super Lesser or Butter gene (possibly all BEL supers?) are what's causing the small eyed albinos.

Popping one of the images I found on a reddit thread:

[Homebody]

I like the small eyes. From reading the thread above, I expected the small eyes to look weird, but I think I might like the small eyes better than the regular eyes.