Morph King Reptiles . . .

[Regal Boids]

"Wes thought we had a new line of Axanthics the first time a homozygous (HXIX) snake hatched, but after a few weeks, it went from a greenish grey to a brownish color."

Thats what they said on their website. The HXIX is the yellow blush gene. SO they told me I was getting an homozygous HXIX that was also het for albino.


-Andre

Edit: Wes never put on the end of the story on how they did not prove to be genetic. I will ask the person that told me this to post here and back me up on this. They are a member, but I do not want to get them into this if they don't want to.

[Nate]

Aleesha that's a pretty good observation

http://www.nathanledet.com/yellowblush.jpg

[Regal Boids]

The pics Nate just posted are the yellow blush albino. The combo of the albino gene and the HXIX gene aka the yellow blush gene.


-Andre

[sho220]

Aleesha that's a pretty good observation

[/img]http://www.nathanledet.com/yellowblush.jpg[/img]

Did you get MKR's permission to post those?

By the way, I'd take the one on the left...they are different snakes, right?

[Smulkin]

Please not, Nate you need the owner's permission to do that - though we do greatly appreciate the fact that you made efforts to not gank bandwidth by hosting them on your own domain.

[Amy1217]

i do not understand genetics that much, but if you were actually ripped off, im really sorry for the loss of money! i know how that goes...

Alright. I am going to try and make this as clear as possible. Joe told me on the phone that the male I was getting would be a homozygous yellow blush thats het for albino. He said that when the yellow blush morph it self is born it looks like an Axanthic and then looks normal when it sheds but has a greenish tint to it. He said thats the only way to tell a yellow blush from a normal. I am not talking about the double recesive gene yellow blush albino. Just the yellow blush morph.

It was not sold to me as just a het albino with nice yellow blushing. It was sold to me as a het albino but he said it is also HOMOZYGOUS yellow blush. albino and yellow blush are 2 different "morphs". When combined you get the yellow blush albino. Well the yellow blush is not Genetic. I have heard from others on this forum and one person in paticular actually called up a well know breeder and asked them because he wasnt sure about them. In the chat room the other night everyone said that yellow blush was not genetic. Anymore questions? just ask and I will be glad to answer them.


-Andre

[Nate]

My appologies. removed the img tags

[JLC]

Just another observation about those pictures.....while it seems odd to have two different pics of what is obviously the same snake with different color tones....nowhere on the page does it claim that it's supposed to represent two different snakes, nor the same snake at different stages of growth. Not that I saw, anyhow. So that may just be poor clerical work on their part, rather than trying to claim something that isn't.

[RedDevil]

I don't think those are the exact same pictures. The snakes' heads are at different angles in both pictures, and whatever it is they are sitting on is also running at a different angle. They definately are the same snakes, though (although they never claimed they were different). Looks to me like they just took two pictures with different camera settings.

[daniel1983]

...why are the pictures being the same important? what am i missing?